My son is 2 1/2 years old. He is starting speech therapy next week for a relatively minor speech delay. He hasn’t been diagnosed with autism or anything like that. He is just a very slow speaker. What I’m wondering is, what can I expect to happen at his therapy sessions? What kind of reinforcement will I be doing at home to make sure what he learns in therapy sticks? And can anyone share their speech therapy success stories? I’d love to hear them. Thanks in advance.

After my son leaves his early child program at 1:30pm, he attends a regular daycare. Where they don’t provide the same care or learning as his school does. I’m wanting to open a extended care program that will help child after school programs, and also the parents pocket book also.

This short documentary about Asperger’s Syndrome shown on TV in 2005 is about me, I have mild Asperger’s Syndrome. I was diagnosed in 2002. I knew I was different from the age of about 6 years old, hypotheses included – the reincarnation of King David or Pliny the Elder, a left behind Space Alien and finally mild autism (after seeing a TV documentary). Other pupils were loud and ran around randomly, while I preferred a mature intellectual life. I became interested in astronomy/science ~3 years old, so I’m told, it was my interests that made me stand out in school. Later on in primary school, I became fascinated by mineralogy too. I found it difficult not to talk about my hobbies, one time I stopped taking for a week or two after the summer holidays, because I knew if I talked … the bullies would again realise I was different and the bullying would start again. I was bullied badly, sometimes beaten up, for years. Bullying mostly stopped in secondary school as I found a group to hang around with. In 1987, at 14, I went to an astronomy lecture, but due to the excitement of it all I had a panic attack and I had to leave (a panic attack over astronomy?). This began over a decade of anxiety & panic attacks and increased reclusiveness, which I completely overcame in 1998. Perhaps due to my bad experience with Astronomy, I turned to Mineral collecting. One of isolating aspects of Asperger’s is, we tend to talk at people not with people. However, in 1998, I did a 6 week …

I know there are some autistic people out there that don’t difficulty in learning. I have moderate autism and a learning disability, so I just want to know how usual it is for autistic people to have a learning disability?

Is there any link between autism and learning disability?
If you have autism, do you have a learning disability? If your children has autism, do they have a learning disability and how well can they learn?

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Stephen Shore describes the sensory issues with lights

(BCBA certified). I mean the person who writes programs and assess the child initially, etc. I’m in the field and deciding where I want to be for the long term (in school or in home), but I want to find out an idea of salary for in-home. Or, if you don’t know salary, then how much per hour do you pay to work with your consultant?

i just found out i had aspergers. i knew something was wrong but this explains alot. but can u tell me wat it means coz i duno wat theyre saying on other websites coz its all doctor stuff :p and does it mean im retarded?