TIME magazine cover story on ASD

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TIME magazine cover story on ASD
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Mon, 05-08-2006 - 3:57pm

I thought you all might be interested. I felt the cover story was actually very well done. There are also a few other relevant articles. If you are not a subscriber, you can view a short ad and still read the cover story:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1191462,00.html

Katherine

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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 7:52pm

DH picked it up this week. I guess that he has read the rest of the magazine and does feel there are a lot of positives to it as well. It is a good overall view. He was bummed they highlighted FC first in a very dramatized way but felt there were lots of redeeming qualities.

I haven't had a chance to read it myself yet. It is on my to do list.

Renee

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Fri, 05-12-2006 - 10:22pm

Thanks for posting this. I know the woman who writes about the heartbreak of placing her son in residential school, her son was also in one of Malcolm's play therapy groups for several years, as was her younger son. And I knew her husband (separately) before they got married, he was an actor and we worked together years ago. She has been a writer for many years. This has been such a long incredibly difficult road for her. I remember when she was making the decision about placing her son in residential school, but he really wasn't making progress in anything available to her in NYC.

It makes me very, very happy to hear that her son is making good progress. He always was so sweet, just had such high sensory difficulties, poor baby.

Sara
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Sat, 05-13-2006 - 12:47am

you mean the boy at the Higashi school? That school and it's program always interested me imensly. I actually did read that part tonight and thought that many of thier interventions may work with mike positively. I would never send him cross country but I wish there was a very they marketed that we could use at home like RDI, DIR or ABA. If I could get a higashi therapist to teach me the ways we could all use it. Lord knows 2 big jogging times a day wouldn't hurt my waste line!

But I do really like there emphasis on physical movement as well as no meds. I do notice that my guys and kids are much better when they get regular hard physical exercise. Take your kids swimming every day for a week and tell me what changes you see. And I have noticed the difference with no meds.

I just got to get motivated and the time to do it. A strict rigorous schedule....hmmmm maybe a plan for summer.

Renee

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Sat, 05-13-2006 - 8:26am

Dear Renee,

Yes, that's the school. The mom and her younger son go up to MA every weekend to see her older son. Can you imagine? She is a very lovely person with a super high pressure job, and the stress of raising her older boy - he's the same age as Mike -, plus the younger having mild needs, plus her never having really recovered from the sudden loss of her husband (just as they were adopting the 2nd boy!) - well, she was really really struggling. And she tried everything, absolutely everything, for that boy, but finally she just recognized that he wasn't making progress and something more radical had to happen. And he was SO dependent on her!

I also notice that physical exercise every day is fairly crucial here. We keep Malcolm very busy with physical activities such as swim lessons, Tae Kwondo, horses, sports coachings, etc, as do you! But I am thinking that as the weather gets nicer, we may add a early morning bike rides, as Malcolm LOVES to ride his bike and the Central Park bike paths are just down the street. Dh has also added the 2 of them walking home across the park from therapy 2x a week, takes about a half hour and does both of them alot of good...

I still gotta figure out what we are doing for summer, I do go back and forth! Whether to do ESY at new school, relax more and do more activities (harder when his friends wil all be doing different things, though), mix of short camps and travel. Time to get cracking.

Sara

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