Tivo alert for Sunday
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| Fri, 02-16-2007 - 9:02am |
There are two autism-related programs on this weekend, just thought I'd post in case anyone is interested.
"Extreme Makeover, the Home Edition" Sunday will be about a Texas family with 6 kids, of whom 5 are ASD, varying degrees. They are apparently making over the house to acccommodate the kids needs. While the work is being done, the family will vacation at the Adaptive Sports Center in Crested Butte, CO. Which coincidentally is where we went last summer and we had the best vacation ever. We did their summer program (the Texas family is skiing) but the folks at the ASC were wonderful. I think they are trying to put together a summer "camp" for kids and parents with ASD kids, but I havent' go the details yet. But I digress...
Also, "60 Minutes" on Sunday is doing a segment on UC Davis MIND institute and early intervention. Not sure of the details there, but saw the press release on the Autism Speaks website.
You'd think it was autism awareness month, or something, from the tv schedule! The cynical side of me wonders if it is bc "The View" got such high ratings for their show, but no matter, any awareness-raising is good.
Katherine

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I watched them both...which, considering how little TV I generally watch, was impressive!
I was actually very happy that the 60 Minutes segment was realistic. They weren't giving false hope, and they weren't claiming to have found a cure. "We want to Dx as young as possible, but it's not as easy as people would assume." As a parent with more than one on the spectrum, I was THRILLED that they covered the genetic link. Where I'm at in Illinois, people are amazingly ill-informed and the local media never bothers to present genetics as an option...they're completely stuck on the "immunization angle" because of the controversy it ignites.
In terms of Extreme Home Makeover, two things really struck me. The oldest child, who appeared to be the "most autistic" was painful to watch. She absolutely broke my heart. Her entire life was thrown off-balance and it almost seemed as if they were just sticking her off in a corner. The other thing that really stood out was the father. His behavior appeared pretty spectrum-esque to me. Did anybody else feel that way about the dad???
Amy
Katherine
I totally agree w/the 60 minute episode. Boy did that bring me down a notch or two. Basically in dh's family there are some not confirmed autism issues with his family. Mostly cousins but has 2 nephews who are spectrumish and just found out about a great neice wiht behavioral issues.
I sigh cause we feel honestly another child will be AS.
I miscarried back in January. I feel perhaps it's God's way of saying, it not meant to be. I am battling back and forth. I fell SO depressed cause I wanted another baby so bad I ached. I still am considering adoption but no for awhile till I get ds (3) into school and see what battles I have ahead of me. Granted I wll adopt and older child just becasue of the scare the media puts into everything.
I feel so bad for new parents of infants and toddlers who might be a little behind. I would go off the deep end seeing that if my little one was just behind.
Think about it, if you had NO idea that his segment was on autism, and you muted the sound watching the child drop the lid and bang the lid over and over, you'd think that he was amusing himself. BUT of course not its AUTISM!!!
My father even said it's getting out of hand that if kids are not text book developement it's a autism thing. My GOD let's just wait and see how this shoe falls over the next twenty or less ten years.
Sigh
Nora
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Amy I thought the same thing! I felt he was little spectrumish with is mannerism. WOW I thought I was reading into too much. Funny how us "pros" can see stuff like that. My dad who is still vaguly clueless to the AS world, thought he was perhaps a "goof"?
Anyhow, he prob is a cause not confirmed, due to the fact he leads a life with TWO jobs.
Guess it's safe to say it doesn't interfer with his life. I really feel my dh is Aspie. He was really unsocial when he met me. Funny cause I LIVE for social events and parties etc. He'd say we balance each other out cause he needed me to help with inclusions. BUT he has always held a job but his social skills were really off and to this day he still can't read me sometimes. Then again I think men can't read women anyhow. LOL
Nora
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I'm strictly a lurker, but I had to respond and agree with the lid thing. What the heck do they expect a baby to do if given a lid to play with? I would have been more concerned if the baby just sat and stared at it and didn't try to play with it, or if there were a lot of toys to choose from and he chose to play with the lid for like an over hour and never picked up another toy. But they only gave the baby the lid.
That just didn't make sense to say the baby was fixated on it. It was a totally normal behavior, with the baby experimenting with cause and effect. Drop the lid and it wobbles. I mean, how much more normal can THAT be?
Totally ridiculous. Now there will be parents all over the country freaking out because their babies are interested in jar lids or boxes or wrapping paper versus toys, all normal reactions for toddlers.
Very misleading.
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