Comments on: Boy’s B-day http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/boys_b_day/ How to start a clothing line or run the one you have, better. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:13:37 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: La BellaDonna http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/boys_b_day/comment-page-1/#comment-142 La BellaDonna Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:09:14 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2005/05/boys_b_day/#comment-142 I don't know if it will do you much good at this point, but I would like to bring your attention to a book by Gretchen Mertz: <i>Help For The Child With Asperger's Syndrome: A Parent's Guide To Negotiating The Social Service Maze (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004). ISBN: 1843107805 (paperback, 238 pages).</i> I'd have to backtrack to see if she covers your particular concerns in this book, but if she doesn't, she's going to have to in the future, for her son. If you'd be interested in getting in touch with her, let me know, and I'll find out if it's OK (I work with her, so I have easy access). I don’t know if it will do you much good at this point, but I would like to bring your attention to a book by Gretchen Mertz: Help For The Child With Asperger’s Syndrome: A Parent’s Guide To Negotiating The Social Service Maze (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004). ISBN: 1843107805 (paperback, 238 pages).

I’d have to backtrack to see if she covers your particular concerns in this book, but if she doesn’t, she’s going to have to in the future, for her son. If you’d be interested in getting in touch with her, let me know, and I’ll find out if it’s OK (I work with her, so I have easy access).

]]> By: Cinnamon http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/boys_b_day/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Cinnamon Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:30:46 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2005/05/boys_b_day/#comment-141 My boyfriend's youngest brother has autism, along with a range of other learning disabilities. It isn't cheap, but he's attending college here at National Louis University. Like your son, he's high-funtioning enough that he can get by but not high-functioning enough that he'll ever be fully self-sufficient. If anyone ever needed a weather analyzer, he would be great at that, but he doesn't have the math/science/reading skills necessary to become a meteoroligist. Through his college programs (PACE program) he has achieved some great inter-personal skills that we'd mostly given up on seeing him develop. He can do small-talk now (mostly a memorized set of comments to make, but it works well for him), he loves working and even though he doesn't understand money he's delighted everytime he deposits a paycheck. <a href="http://www2.nl.edu/pace/" rel="nofollow">http://www2.nl.edu/pace/</a> It's not autistic specific, but he might find it useful, if you can afford it. My boyfriend’s youngest brother has autism, along with a range of other learning disabilities. It isn’t cheap, but he’s attending college here at National Louis University. Like your son, he’s high-funtioning enough that he can get by but not high-functioning enough that he’ll ever be fully self-sufficient. If anyone ever needed a weather analyzer, he would be great at that, but he doesn’t have the math/science/reading skills necessary to become a meteoroligist.

Through his college programs (PACE program) he has achieved some great inter-personal skills that we’d mostly given up on seeing him develop. He can do small-talk now (mostly a memorized set of comments to make, but it works well for him), he loves working and even though he doesn’t understand money he’s delighted everytime he deposits a paycheck.

http://www2.nl.edu/pace/ It’s not autistic specific, but he might find it useful, if you can afford it.

]]> By: Josh http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/boys_b_day/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Josh Tue, 10 May 2005 17:16:44 +0000 http://www.fashion-incubator.com/2005/05/boys_b_day/#comment-140 Nice to hear your M day and B day adventure. I love breakfast at dinner myself. Soy sausage with whole wheat biscuits and orange juice. And if only I'd stop making pancakes in the middle of the night I might not have such a huge ass :) The whole Playstation and Nintendo craze escaped me when I was a kid. I heard everyone else talking about it, how fun it was. All I knew is we had no money to buy it and that was that. I didn't have any friends who had it. My cousin had Nintendo but he would grab the control just as soon as I got started good. Now as an adult I consider seeing what all the fuss was/is about by buying one. But then there is the fear that I will become an addict, playing until my fingers fall off. I allowed myself to play SIMS on my computer last year and I actually played it off and on for a few weeks and got bored with it very quickly. So if that's any indication... Nice to hear your M day and B day adventure. I love breakfast at dinner myself. Soy sausage with whole wheat biscuits and orange juice. And if only I’d stop making pancakes in the middle of the night I might not have such a huge ass :)

The whole Playstation and Nintendo craze escaped me when I was a kid. I heard everyone else talking about it, how fun it was. All I knew is we had no money to buy it and that was that. I didn’t have any friends who had it. My cousin had Nintendo but he would grab the control just as soon as I got started good. Now as an adult I consider seeing what all the fuss was/is about by buying one. But then there is the fear that I will become an addict, playing until my fingers fall off. I allowed myself to play SIMS on my computer last year and I actually played it off and on for a few weeks and got bored with it very quickly. So if that’s any indication…

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