Common Core is making my brilliant son with #Autism hate math :(

It's been a very frustrating day for me as a parent because Common Core has entered into the picture, for the first time I'm aware of. Emmett loves to learn and thrives on numbers and patterns. He loves school and is an extremely intelligent 7 year old. As of last school year, Emmett was moving through math so quickly that I started helping him learn more challenging math problems at home, just for run. He can do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In some cases, in all cases he can do so with 3 or 4 digit numbers. Even more impressively, he does this in his head. I don't know how he does it but it's like he visualizes the number floating  around him and the answers just appear. Emmett…

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Telogen Effluvium… Ever heard of it?

Elliott's appointment today went really well.  He was super brave and the only time he really got nervous, was actually pretty funny. Dr. Handwork put on his latex gloves before checking Elliott's scalp, which is probably protocol. As soon as Elliott saw him put the gloves on he panicked. This was the exchange of words between him and I: Elliott: why did he put the gloves on? Me:  because he is going to be touching you. Elliott: (even more panicked than before) where is he going to touch me that he needs to wear gloves? Everyone began laughing and Dr. Handwork explained that he was wearing gloves so that could look through his hair.  Elliott relaxed again after that. Right now we are going to just hurry up and wait.…

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#Autism and #SPD: Our struggle with clothes

Emmett is going to be 5 years old in the next few months and we are still struggling to keep him clothed. It's one of those things that sorta make him who he is. He came home from my parents house yesterday and before I even saw him, I saw signs that he had been through here. It's like the moment he arrived home he ran right up to the bathroom and took is clothes off. For the most part, he will keep his clothes on when he's at his grandparents house but there are still times when we go to pick him up and he's running around in his underpants.  :-) While Emmett is a child with Autism, he's also dealing with Sensory Processing Dysfunction as well. Basically, clothes…

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