Sunday Best – Labor Day Edition

Sep 6, 2010 -

Advocacy, Autism/Special Needs, Resources, Therapies

Sunday Best – Labor Day Edition

This is a day late because I didn’t get online until late yesterday and ran out of time, but I have a number of links I wanted to pass on.

Floortime

What is Floortime? – K over at Floortime Lite Mama put together a great post with the basic concepts of Floortime. In it, she talks about the concepts it is based on as well as how it looks in practice.

If you’re interested in more information, she also wrote about the difference between classic Floortime and using Floortime as a lifestyle in Portrait of a Floortime Evening and shared her heart about being mom vs. therapist over at Hopeful Parents.

Life Lessons

Autism: The Teacher at Puzzled – This is a thoughtful essay about the lessons we can learn from raising an autistic child. As she puts it, just like a non-elective class in college, we didn’t choose this path but can choose to learn from it.

Sensory Processing Disorder

I have been thinking a lot more about this topic recently, especially as I am reading a couple of books about SPD to review for this blog. The Gift Blog just published An Interview with Dr. Lucy Jane Miller, one of the foremost researchers in this area at the current time and one of the people working very hard to get SPD accepted into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM).

On Advocacy

Advocacy Power – More Parents Leading the Way – If you are looking for some guidance on advocating for your child, this is a great place to start.

For those of us already in the trenches, An Open Letter to Special Needs Professionals really speaks for how I am feeling much of the time when dealing with many doctors, educators and other people in Michael’s life.

On a more practical note, this article on 5 Tips to Help Autistic Students with Transitions is concise and clearly written for teachers and other professionals who may not have a solid understanding of autism. In fact, I already passed it on to Michael’s autism consultant to share with the team.

I hope you find some encouragement and new ideas in one or more of these posts. Please let me know if there’s a particular topic you want to hear more about and I will do my best to find information on it.