Picture Bingo! Playing with my ASD kids.

I will be blogging about our experience at Surfer's Healing camp, hopefully some time soon, but there are video clips from our day that I want to include in the blog and I need some time to edit those together. This post is to share a first for the boys and I – today, the […]

Help me win an iPad2 for Daniel, at no cost to you!

Action required from September 3rd until September 9th (inclusive)! You can read more about Daniel below, to make things easy for you, I’ve outlined the steps for you to follow first. Go to this blog post. Scroll to the bottom and you will see the picture below. If you’re on twitter, hit the ‘tweet’ button […]

Teaching our kids how to tie shoe laces

All children can have trouble learning this skill but for special needs children it can be a particular challenge. Our children often have fine motor skill deficits or have problems with learning and remembering multi-step sequences. One of my friends on Facebook asked if there was an app or other resources she could use to […]

To the SEPRC… and beyond!

This is my second post regarding the process I went through in order to get Oliver and Owen placed within the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). The first post can be found here and is an outline of the services we accessed and steps taken up to and including school registration. This next step would […]

One does not simply WALK into the TDSB

This is the first in a two-part set of posts chronicling the boys' educational journey to-date. I had initially drafted this as one post but it was getting far too long so I've split it into two. You can find the second post here. By way of preamble, as you read this please keep in […]

Review of Custom Boards by Smarty Ears

I was the lucky recipient of a code for the Premium version of this app, which currently costs $39.99. My review took longer than expected but I managed to finally squeeze it in. Apologies for the delay! Bottom line: If you are a therapist, teacher or other professional who routinely uses visuals, I would highly […]

Video for Jackson!

  Thanks for all the cards you sent for Jackson! His surgery is tomorrow so I hope he gets a chance to see this video before then and that he enjoys it very much. I will select the recipients of the gift card and apps tonight. Special thanks goes to: Frances A – special ed […]

Support Jackson in his journey… and win!

You may have already heard of 9 year-old Jackson; a lot of special needs bloggers have been mentioning him lately. Jackson’s mum, Gina, is the owner of the website Special Happens. Her eldest son has a number of obstacles to overcome – he has cerebral palsy, is on the autism spectrum, has sensory processing disorder […]

How I make PECs on the iPad – Part 2

My first foray into this topic has so far proved to be the second most popular post on my blog – ever – so I decided to update it and tell you about my new favourite app for producing single PEC cards – DesignStudio by BoogieBot. For creating visuals that use multiple pictures, like first-then-next […]

“He’s only a…”

I first became aware of the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) after reading a 2007 article in Mother Jones. I was horrified; and that was before both my children received an autism diagnosis. In April of this year I was astonished to hear that, not only was the JRC still open, it was STILL shocking children. […]