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Aspergers observation session

by Paige on March 23, 2011

Clinician: Can you use “frightening” in a sentence? Student: *long pause, silent counting* Student: one thousand two hundred fifteen days ago was a frightening day. [date was 9/11/01] Sounds familiar.

The Horse Boy

by Paige on May 24, 2010

Quite a few people (very thoughtfully) pointed me towards the movie The Horse Boy recently, as it has been airing on PBS recently. I have yet to see it (just purchased the DVD yesterday) but from all I’ve read and (…)

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Q & A With an Aspie

by Paige on May 17, 2010

Q&A from StoryCorps on Vimeo. Story Corps recently released a book about mothers for Mother’s Day. Included was one of the pieces about Josh Littman, a 12 year old boy with Asperger’s who interviewed his mom for the public radio (…)

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Notes on Cleaning an Aspie Kid’s Room Without Him

by Paige on April 5, 2010

Daschel was with his dad this weekend so took the opportunity to do some long-awaited Spring cleaning in his room. Because he collects and loves his spiral notebooks so much (he writs about current obsessions in them and files them (…)

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On a Personal Note: My Child With Asperger’s

by Paige on March 30, 2010

I’ve been writing at this blog for years. When I first started, I was living abroad and had an infant son at home with me while I worked on freelance design projects. Most of what I wrote about at that (…)

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Coloring Elephants, Listening to Richman Sing

by Paige on May 9, 2008