Printable Activities at Home

 I'm back after vacation time and have some time to post again, now that the boy is at school I thought would be nice to talk about activities to do at home so they don't forget their skills or maybe get new ones. Printables are a cheap way and I think adds a lot of diversity.
On Etsy you can find a lot of printable activities  but of course you choose ones adequate to your child's level.
I found these ones at Abbiesolutely Preschool Printable.
Another advantage is because they are printable they are so affordable. Although to use them after printing it is better to laminate I have a laminator but if you don't just 2 or 3 pages don't add that much to pay at the office store.

The first one of fruits is not just good to work as puzzle and shape recognition but also you can work on speech asking them to grab the fruit.
Let's put the banana..where is banana ? can you say ba na na !

The other one works with matching letters which is fun, also if you print double the letters you can create  words (if your child is older). I think for little boys like mine that are obsessed with trains is a good choice.

I will probably do a podcast soon talking more about this topic.

Jana

Loving Lampposts Movie Review

When I was on my Amazon prime instant video browsing movies this days I decided to search Autism, to see what kind of movies they had and I saw this movie and got me intrigued it had great reviews. And I'm glad I watched so glad that I thought why I didn't watch this movie 2 yrs ago.

I think this movie is essencial to every single family that received the news of Autism, specially the recent diagnoses. 

It talks about the perspective of a father, he talks with Autistic Adults, covers science and the exploitation of what Autism become a profitable business to a lot of people. But what I loved is he showing parents that regards what happened believed in their children and their children have a voice sometimes not verbal, or sometimes not so outspoken as people think but they know what's going on and to see that was fantastic, this movie let me know I'm not a lone there are a lot of parents that don't live their life telling lies to themselves about cures but rather love and accepting the child for them to be the best they can be.

I love a Autist man which is married and have kids saying what helped him was Early intervention, music and above all love and patience. 

I already email my former Early Intervention team, my son's hospital Autism director program  and as many people I can because I so believe this movie is essencial to parents to start their journey and to do they own decisions from there.

Totally recommend !

Jana

Ipad apps for Autism Part 1

Today I'm talking about apps for Autism the ones I have been using, there is a lot to talk about in this topic so this is the first part more to come and also I will talk about resources.

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Apps that I talked about in this podcast :

Injini on their website you can take a look at the app and they even have some printables.

Monkey Pre School Lunchbox

Book Review - Step Ahead of Autism

After a long break without buying any new books after reading a lot and being frustrated sometimes with some books we find out there, I was at Barnes & Nobles and pick up this book after seeing the table of contents. I just wish I read this book a long long time ago and I highly recommend if you are new or old in this journey. This book definitely tell you things straight forward very fast reading (just over 100 pages) and it's divided by the steps we need to take in our journey. I totally agree and now like her will be putting these over my house so I won't forget, maybe some we already been dealt with others maybe we will. She has a very positive encounter and tell some stories but outline things in detail for you.

Here are the steps detailed in this book:

Trust

Observe

Accept

Ascertain

Adapt

Advocate

Assess your Attitute

Assert your Authority

Delegate

Aspire

Also a nice chapter putting steps in practice . The Author is the fouder of Alleviate Autism.

in my opinion a must read.

Sensory Processing Disorder podcast part 1

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Notes:

Other ones to consider



Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation



Jana

Good Books part 1

I will do a tab later for all the books in this reviews so everyone can find all the books in one place.

Constantly I go to bookstores to see what's new or search on Amazon, one thing is for sure now the Autism community has many books to choose from but also there is a lot of bad stuff emerging, people writing stuff without no research or  any thing to back up what they are saying.
As I read more I will always do more reviews but so far these are the ones I like the best so far.



The Out-of-sync child is one of the best, it was recommended by me when we have our diagnoses. And as I started to read I started all the time yes he does that and that. Very good information and great tips.




Most of kids with Autism has Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)  and this book is the best so far out there, a lot of good information and you started to understand why your child does the things that he/she does. A amazing book.

After you understand what SPD  is , it's great to know how you can play with your child but at the same address the problems they are having and help them.



These kind of books have so many good ideas when you start to read books like this, you start to learn what activities help and create your own and know also what activities aren't good.

And this one is huge and you will learn a lot I still browse here and there to refresh my mind.
If you are new to Autism I think if you want to buy books I would suggest more reference books that explain the disorders and not give their opinions ..




I'll be back with more ..
Jana

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