Care4autism

                  I was reading a book from the series Amelia Bedelia. The books are about Amelia, whose  intentions are good but is a little foolish. In the story Amelia is asked to stake the bean poles, but she ends up tying steak to the plants. I showed Ramam what staking a bean pole means, and explained steak to be a kind of meat. So in one of the reading sessions when he got the meaning, he chuckled when I read out this passage.                                The other night I was trying to educate my daughter on the names of dishes unique to Kerala Iyers, because it can get embarrassing when we have guests. Somebody tells her to pass a bowl of something and she would give them an "I don't know which one" look. Ramam was listening to this ongoing conversation. I then said Rama's turn and asked him what this is? Although he knew the right name, h...

                                              Visual perception and autism This is my fourth post under the label understanding autism better.  People on the spectrum ,  have difficulty processing visual information . In other words they have visual perceptual difficulties.                     Relating to a personal experience I had with Ramam recently prompted me to choose this topic. I was working on Ramam calling out numbers for a game of tambola/ housie. In a game of tambola the person call out numbers from 1-100. The participants are given tickets and they score out the numbers called out. He would read the number correct but would place it in the wrong place and sometimes vice versa.            As Ramam called out the numbers I realized he was reading the second digit of ...

It is such a beautiful post on silence....I had to share it. http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/11/06/silence-ii-variation/#more-1693 " There is simply silence. Unconscious, unobserved, uncomplicated, quiet. Left alone, I could spend days in this silence".                             These are those  moments of silence I enjoy with Ramam, knowing we are there for each other, not a spoken word  just sitting next to each other. These are time I wish the world we live is  a less complicated place ,there are no demands and expectations,and never does the unexpected happen. A utopian world for our kids!!!

                                             What is about literal thinking and autism?                     Ramam’s friends had come over in the October holidays. He was very excited. And his expression manifested itself in few joyous shouts and screams from him. I then asked him to show his friends a tray full of glasses filled with juice. I got back to doing my work, when one of the mother’s remarked. “He is doing what Viji asked him to do”. He was literally holding the tray high and standing in their midst.  My intention was to ask him to serve the guest. So much for literal thinking and my failure to communicate to him.                          If one actually looks at the way...

            Off late  Ramam has began saying  many a  things that happened  in the recent past, or something he has done in his school. Sometimes he talks about something a week old, and starts talking about it out of the blue. And since his articulation is not clear , we have a difficult time getting to understand. Yesterday he was all excited about the Christmas tree he had decorated in his school. It is in his recent memory, but  I am not too sure if the event happened on the day he related it to me.                                                                               He spoke of the decorations , he wanted to build a house with blocks and put a roof top .[This was the first time he build a house and wanting to put a door , w...