Ethan has a love hate relationship with the iPad now. He likes to play on it but only on his terms, sometimes this will only happen if we decide we want to use the iPad. With Little E’s arrival Ethan lost interest in the iPad again. Not what we wanted, but there was obviously more […]
Ethan hasn’t used a high chair at home for about a year. As he doesn’t like to keep still for more than a second, we felt it was essential to teach him how to eat and stay at the dinner table. A very important life skill. This is a skill that we hadn’t yet
It has been a very weird week for us, I’m not 100% at the moment and I have had to have some extra appointments. I think Ethan knows something is up but because he is non-verbal we have no idea how much he does understand. He showed me how much he does understand in
Being that Ethan is non-verbal I have always been very aware that it’s hard to communicate with him to let him know about future plans. There have been times when we have gone out for the day and I feel like Ethan is just plonked in the car and taken there. Of course we talk
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We are learning the hard way that because autistic children have no concept of time, past, present or future, they don’t understand the concept of waiting. Add that to the fact that your autistic child may also have developmental delays and be non-verbal, outsiders looking in might see a teenager throwing a spectacular meltdown and
