WhatsApp Messages

When your child does home-based early intervention therapy, you lack a lot of privacy. Although we are incredibly fortunate to be able to afford the excellent services Aidan receives thanks to his grandparents, we are managing a lot of people in a busy household on a daily basis. Don’t get me wrong, we are incredibly […]

Can’t Wait, Won’t Wait!

All kids struggle with waiting, on the spectrum or not. And of all the age groups, toddlers seem to battle the most with it. They have a primal need for instant gratification and are decidedly in deficit when it comes to patience! But normally, a child can be instructed to wait a minute by a […]

A Leap of Faith

If you’re the parent of a newly diagnosed kiddo, you’ll recognise and relate to the incredible stress you feel when it comes time to choose early intervention therapies for them. It feels like a fearsome responsibility to do all the research and choose wisely on their behalf, knowing, that the wrong decision could negatively impact […]

Screens for the WIN!

This is one of those ultra polarising subjects! It’s right up there with “breast is best”, vaccinations, and whether ABA is good or bad. But I feel it’s worth a post, and welcome any discussion that may arise from it.  It is generally accepted today that too much screen time is a very bad thing. And […]

The Flexibility Program

I don’t even know how to adequately describe what we’re going through right now. The organisation that manages Aidan’s 1:1 home based ABA therapy has implemented a flexibility program.  It’s been suggested by them on and off, but it was never a good time to start it, mainly due to a scourge of seasonal bugs […]

A Will of Iron

For a very long time, we would do whatever it took to prevent Aidan from becoming dysregulated. And when his triggers ramped up, and it became virtually impossible to prevent a tantrum or meltdown, we would do whatever it took to bring the behaviours under control as quickly as possible.  We genuinely believed that we […]

The Program

Aidan was just two years old when his home-based ABA program started. He had only just dropped his naps, and had been spending happy days playing at home, in the garden, visiting parks, and attending a small number of toddler classes we’d enrolled him in. He’d had relative freedoms, little structure, and was a little […]

No Time To Lose

Following in the footsteps of other autism moms I follow online, I will be keeping the details of our service provider private, to safeguard my family’s privacy. But I will be talking in depth about Aidan’s ABA program, how we set it up, how it works, its benefits and complexities, and hopefully my readers can […]