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List of autism movies
Here’s a list of movies that contain autistic characters. The list doestn’t include those television shows and the list is not complete. We only choose the top 10 movies which are highly recommanded by parents or public. Most of the actors or actresses did a remarkable job of portarying autistic people. However, there’s also some confusion. It is said that Oscar-winner Kate Winslet is going to narrate a documentary that tells a heartbreaking story about a mother and her son with autism, the film is called ” The Sunshine Boy”.
Two snapshots from One of Us: A Family's Life with Autism:
My son Cameron's hands embody his disability. Large and powerful, with long, elegantly tapered fingers, they could be a guitar player’s hands, but instead dangle from his arms like a yearling colt’s gangling hooves. They show no sign of labor, nor a single callus. He can't write his name with them. He can't show you three fingers. He can't even make a firm fist. Neutralized by his disorder, they are animated mostly by tics and violent gestures. They are handicapped.
Yet he uses his hands skillfully for what clinicians call "self-stimulatory behaviors," or stims. Different stims have obsessed Cam at different times: at age three and four he went through a Stacking Stage; at ages five and six, the Climbing Craze; then came the Wastebasket Era, when he became fascinated with sitting in nested trash cans. From ages nine through twelve his favorite pastime was to roam our yard, pulling branches from shrubs or trees and stripping their leaves. With relentless efficiency, he’d snap off a branch with his right hand, then run his left hand along the stem’s length, briskly cleaning the limb. He repeated the ritual with another branch, each action a near-perfect copy of the preceding one. Then again. Then again. From twigs his hands fashioned a perfect, unchanging autistic planet.
Merry IEP Christmas
I am so frusterated right now. I knew this was going to happen. The school managed to drag things out and here we are a few weeks before Christmas and we still have not had the IEP.
So we finally get a date and my advocate can not make that date. I got the IEP invitation in the mail today and once again they have invited all these people from a school district that we don’t want our son in.
When he was originally diagnosed with autism, our district said oh we don’t have an AI program in our district so we will send you to another district and bus your children to and from school.
Now that my child is ready to be mainstreamed they want to ship him back to our district. The problem with that is that, I don’t want nothing to do with our district, number one because it stinks. Number two, they wanted to stick our son in a cross categorical program with AI and Emotionally Impaired children not at all what our goal was. Our goals was to get our son in the LRE. So we requested school of choice they told us it wasn’t an option that the window was closed. We want our son to remain in that same district at the same school. Here is the thing the AI program is placed in that school but basically are renting the space there. So they are telling us he can not go to school there. My son has extreme anxiety and is still vomiting. I wanted to keep as many variables the same that we can. We will have to change the class, the teacher, etc but if we can keep the same school and I can drive him in with his sister as I always do and he can go home on the same bus, I believe it will reduce a great amount of anxiety for him. Anyway I was told that they were supposed to create and AI program for us in our district because they did not have one but we were willing to be shipped to another district
GFCF for autism is helping
In the past few months I have been learning about the GFCF(gluten free and casein free) diet and trying out recipes and such. Now my husband knows that the food isn’t all that bad and I have been sending testimonies of the kids it has helped. We have tried our best to go 100% GFCF this week … or so we thought. I am finding that there are things I have fed the kids that I thought were GFCF but some products had it in there under a different name. I know I will get better at this as time goes on.
Horseback riding therapy for autism
We came back from horseback riding therapy for autism. My daughters respite worker and a little old lady who works at the stable was leading her horse. The horse got spooked and took off running and it ripped the rieigns out of our respite workers hands and out of the little old lady?? hands who was leading the horse but it took longer for her to let go so the horse dragged her a few feet.
I was watching and screaming whoa, not that it did any good but I didn?? know what to do to get the horse to stop. It was very scary and I felt helpless because my daughter was on the horse as it took off running. She was laughing and enjoy the ride until his speed threw her from the horse. I was horrified as I watched her fly through the air. All I have to say is my little girl is one tough cookie.I thought she was going to get back up and say let?? do that again. She didn?? but she didn?? seem very effected by the fact that she had just gotten thrown from the horse but my respite worker was so upset she was crying because she felt it was her fault that my daughter got thrown. When my daughter saw her crying she began crying. So I right away went over to calm our respite worker down while my husband was on the ground with my daugther. I did feel that it was better for all of us to remain calm rather than get upset because it would be harder to find out if my daughter actually got hurt. She appears to be ok. I think she is going to be sore tomorrow but she was not affected much by that whole incident. But I have to say being the one standing on the sidelines watching it, it all looked very scary. We have one more week left of the fall sessions and I