Peaceful place has worked

Well its been a while and like most folks when there is peace you just enjoy what you have. My son has come on in leaps and bounds this last 6 months. He is for the first time happy with his education and is working so well with his teacher I couldn't be prouder or happier for him. He has developed in himself and that is just a wonderful thing to see. As he is now 13 years old I am hanging on for those" teen years" that I am told can be very hard for Aspergers children! He has started a new class in civil engineering, well with his love of designing it seemed the next step for him! He has a really good teacher for this that before his retirement was a teacher in a collage teaching civil engineering so that my son really has a great chance here to learn the right way to draw before he gets lost in his way of working! The only gray cloud is the lack of friends, he really has none which leaves him bored for some of the time. I can't think a way of helping that at the moment but I am sure in time it can work out. He has adult friends here but really could do with children, as most of you know its a two edged thing, children kind of bore him but he wants them any way!

Aspergers helpful book

Well I have been asked a few times for some good books on the subject of Aspergers, really with the view to helping us mums and the child. A great book I have found easy to read (not full of medical terms!) is “Parenting your Aspergers child” by Alan Sohn and Cathy Grayson.
It’s a book that walks you through diagnosis. Gives you insight into Aspergers from what the child may be going through, to helpful advice on who to see to help your child. This book helps you see the complexity of Aspergers. Allows you to help some of the professionals ( teachers, doctors) to have better understanding of this complexed condition.
Order today through our web site www.expatsavings.eu Click on “Holiday essentials, on the top of that page is Waterstone, click then type in the name of book and order. When you have the list up there are a few other books there for you to consider. Hope that helps.
I will in a few days pop up some books that help siblings and friends of your child! I found these helped my daughter a lot and we also found them good for her friends to have better understanding of our home and family. They have also help the “sitter”! We have to help not only the child but all the people around the child.

Autism help

One thing I have been asked for is tips on things that help you child with autism to be able know where there things are. This sound really odd but it has helped so much I'm passing the tip on!

Use electrical tape to mark off a square on the floor to help your child to know where their shoes are. This helps a lot as the shoes are always there and they learn to expect them there and the soon learn to put them there. Great in the morning when you have to be quick!

I have found this tip works really well for placing toys as well. We found that with my son he would tip all his toys over the floor, not being able to think of this as a mess or of sharing "play space" with others. The up shot was rows so we used this tip (making it a larger square as needed) to our wonder it worked! in fact he then had to keep his toys in the box even when playing!

I have also know this tip to work in the school for sitting on the floor in the hall and reading corner. The child then understands with the physical prompt what is expected of them Also great for children with ADHD as the lose mat can just slide around with the child!