Posts by JohannasGarden

I really don't know. There is nothing there that sounds really inappropriate for a 3, almost 4 y.o., BUT, I'm not sure I would totally ignore it. I would at least file it away somewhere. If your daughter is the youngest in the class,...

My guess is that it would be somewhere in between. I am not sure why it was important for him not to rub his face after each bite, but it sounds like they held his hands for that and not to force a spoon in his mouth, and that he didn't...

We've sort of been label avoiders, but I personally needed some kind of idea of what we were looking at. One of the main things a "label" (whether formal or informal) can do for a child is to relieve them of some of the...

I that if overall he enjoys it and you feel the program has been good for him, then I would probably just talk with the teacher about how you don't want him stopped from doing things just because they are weird or delay him for a short...

While it is usually a bit of a process to diagnose Tourette's Syndrome, it is much less of a big deal to diagnose "transient tic disorder" or "tic disorder--NOS". It may be that a pediatrician or psychiatrist would be...

I would probably place an absorbent/waterproof pad beneath the child in a Good Nights at night. I would also make sure the Good nights are getting full and it's not a leakage at the legs or waist issue (I've had this happen where the...

1) I would absolutely not encourage a child to modify a tic like this. There are tics, some would call them compulsions since they involve others, that I encourage DS to modify because they really do violate people's personal space--like...

There's a good book on the subject called _When the Brain Can't Hear_ Particularly if she doesn't have speech problems, it's unlikely she would be diagnosed with CAPD this young. The official test for it is at 8, though there is a...

I was just popping in to recommend that book. It is in our local library and the kids like it. They enjoy books in that series by parents of kids with Asperger's--Tobin Makes Friends was a helpful social one for us. Sherri

How many cafe au laits does he have? My understanding, actually, is that some types of neurofibromas can get bigger and larger, though that doesn't usually happen and suggests autoimmune more. The rash is also immune related usually. I...