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• Danger lurks around every corner

  Published: July 24, 2007, 8:58 pm

  Tags: Sensory Integration Disorder, Sensory Overload, Water

  a deterrent. [translation = sensory] Should you see a small child scream and run for cover amongst the boxes of green bananas under the tressel table, clearly he is a hooligan on a quest to trample fruit. Or even a larger child for that matter.I have only three or four items on my shopping list. I encourage his help but he will have none of

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• There's Something About That Thomas the Tank Train

  Published: July 27, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Sensory, Toys, Technology, Movies, Media, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Bob The Builder, Children, Family, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Shrek, Thomas Tank Train

  Craegmoor Healthcare reports on a new study commissioned by The National Autistic Society (NAS) according to which it was found that watching the Thomas the Tank Train television show had a positive effect on autistic children. Moreover, as many as 99 percent of the children surveyed said that Thomas & Friends characters were their favorite

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• The Any Year Itch

  Published: July 25, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Sensory, Health, Genetics, Science, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Dna, Education, Family, Genes, Genetics, Health, Itch, Parenting, Pdd Nos

  Another discovery in genetics besides the new study on spontaneous genetic mutations an autism may not get as much attention, but could bring some real relief. Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have foun the first gene connection to the sensation of itching. Science Daily reports: The “itch gene”

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• Of a Beachball, Barbells, and the Trojan Horse

  Published: July 30, 2007, 2:25 am

  Tags: Toys, Myth, Charlisms, Sensory, Parenting, Classics, Asd, Aspergers, Athena, Autism, Beachball, Cable, Children, Education, Family, Greek, Mythology, Odysseus, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Prize, Teaching, Toys, Trojan Horse, Troy, Ulysses, Video

  Sunday night and I am: washing grapes for Charlie’s lunchbox—-emailing the students in my summer school course about their presentations on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (they decided that they want to make videos of 3 different scenes with accompanying PowerPoints and I have been given the task of editing the videos)—-folding

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• Flip, Flip

  Published: August 2, 2007, 1:47 am

  Tags: Sensory, Water, Animals, Sports, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Dolphin, Family, Fish, Gymnastics, Health, Kingfish, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Pool, Swimming, Water

  Those are dolphins but, in their slick ease in the water, they remind me of Charlie—-or perhaps it is rather that Charlie, who glides back and forth atop and under the water and often with a smile of simple delight (as if to say “eureka!“—”I found it!”), makes me think of dolphins. It is not for nothing I once

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• The Uses of Liquid Soap

  Published: August 9, 2007, 5:28 am

  Tags: Charlisms, Sensory, Water, Weather, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Brooklyn, Children, Education, Family, Health, Heat, Hot, Humidity, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Pool, Shower, Soap, Summer, Tornado

  There was no hot water in the shower at the YMCA so Charlie waited till we got home. He has been liking to shower long and leisuredly and has been taking an interest in the soap and in soaping himself (you never know when a “life skill” might emerge………). On a day of 90-degree-plus heat and torrid

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• Tiptoe through the tulips

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:27 pm

  Tags: Ocd, Neophobia, Sensory Integration

  One of our ongoing campaigns, is to continue to try and expand junior's diet. Currently, he eats 17 foods. [translation = jolly annoying but more commonly referred to as neophobic] Ideally I would wish for our family to enjoy a meal together in the evening, but that dream may be a while away yet. For the time being I am more than satisfied

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• Teaching Strategy #12: Just one bite . how do you get a child to eat something new?

  Published: August 23, 2007, 6:44 am

  Tags: Teaching Strategies, Food Diet, Sensory, Parenting, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Diet, Education, Family, Food, Health, Nutrition, Pdd Nos, Picky Eaters, Teaching, Vegetables

  keep in mind his differing sensory needs and his general caution regarding anything new, from entering a strange house he has never been in before to wearing shoes a size bigger (but which do not have the familiar grooves and comfy spots of the old, getting-too-tight pair) to, come the start of September, being in a different classroom than he

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• I Never Meant To Raise an Ocean Swimmer

  Published: August 24, 2007, 6:54 am

  Tags: Charlisms, Sensory, Animals, Classics, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Beach, Children, Dolphin, Education, Family, Fish, Health, Ocean, Pdd Nos, Surfing, Water, Whale

  So it turns out I was right: Earlier this summer, I predicted that Charlie would swim the farthest out into the ocean, beyond and over Jim’s head and swimming where Jim is comfortable, with me posted by the lifeguard stand—-and this is precisely what has happened. The ocean is no swimming pool, but a living creature, changeable, wild,

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• Ouch My Ears Hurt!

  Published: August 25, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Sensory, Asd, Aspergers Pdd Nos, Autism, Decibel, High Pitch, Jesse Ventura, Opera, Sound, Sounds, Voice, Wine Glass, Wrestling

  Whether or not it is true that an opera singer (singing notes at a volume of up to 100 decibels) can break a glass (as discussed in the August 23rd Scientific American), I do know that high-pitched sounds emitted by the human voice can really bother Charlie. My own voice sometimes rises to such a pitch (or perhaps a squeak) and, in days past,

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• Top 10 August Posts

  Published: September 2, 2007, 7:52 am

  Tags: Charlisms, Sensory, Water, Literature, Myth, Friendship, Drama, New Jersey, Holidays, Vaccines, Family, Science, Schoolbus, Disability Rights, Weblogs, Safety, Health, Parenting, Education, Arthur Miller, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Beach, Children, Developmental Disability, Down Synd

  It may have been the dog days of summer, but autism never takes a vacation. Here are the highlights of August: Thanks to everyone for reading Autism Vox—-your comments spur me to think and re-examine my own views, and reaccess. 4 autism limericks from the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form (OEDILF) spark discussion about how we

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• Dance and Sing

  Published: September 14, 2007, 7:07 pm

  Tags: Sensory, Movies, Music, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Dance, Family, Health, Music, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Singing, Taye Diggs, Words

  Dance about autism: Actor Taye Diggs and his co-choreographer Andrew Palermo have created “beyond.words,” which “was inspired by the idiosyncratic gestures often made by those with autism,” as noted in Kansas.com. (Est e has a link, too, to videos by the Autistic Pride Dancers.) Sing about autism: Is Autism: The Musical

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• Fish or fowl?

  Published: September 14, 2007, 10:17 pm

  Tags: Quenelles, Sensory Integration

  thing. I think it's a sensory thing, which usually amounts to faulty wiring somewhere along the system. That said, because adults don't do it, this must mean that whatever it is, disappears as you grow up. Perhaps you feel the same way, but find better ways of dealing with the matter? I need grown ups to tell us, let us in on the

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• Smelling Difference

  Published: September 16, 2007, 10:38 pm

  Tags: Food Diet, Sensory, Genetics, Science, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Dna, Family, Genes, Genetics, Health, Nose, Odors, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Roses, Science, Senses, Smells

  not. It’s a world of sensory difference out there, Gene Expression notes in a post today, citing Genetic variation in a human odorant receptor alters odour perception in Nature. Today’s Science Daily explains how urine can smell like vanilla to some, and vanilla like urine to others: But androstenone, a derivative of testosterone

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• Noise: Nice and Necessary?

  Published: September 21, 2007, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Sensory, Music, Neuroscience, Science, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Decibels, Family, Health, Jimi Hendrix, Noise, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Ramones, Taxi

  noted some similarities in sensory and cognitive processing and attention. 42 children (21 with ADHD) between 9 and 12 years of age were tested in S derlund’s study: Interpreted loosely, the idea is that those with ADHD are chronically understimulated by both their environment and their internal cognitive representations, leading them

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