Archive for December, 2007
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Soon after learning to drive as a 17-year-old, I realised its value to my social life. After-school phone chats to friends weren’t an option, so the family car would be borrowed for evening visits. Near-misses while negotiating friends’ dark driveways were carefully logged in my experience as episodes not to ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Soon after learning to drive as a 17-year-old, I realised its value to my social life. After-school phone chats to friends weren’t an option, so the family car would be borrowed for evening visits. Near-misses while negotiating friends’ dark driveways were carefully logged in my experience as episodes not to ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
From next month, IrishDeafKids.ie will move to its own web domain, www.irishdeafkids.ie, with a new branding identity and resource areas. Site posts will feed through to www.release.ie, to whom we are very grateful for our initial web presence in 2007.
This move would not be happening without the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland ...
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Thursday, December 13th, 2007
From next month, IrishDeafKids.ie will move to its own web domain, www.irishdeafkids.ie, with a new branding identity and resource areas. Site posts will feed through to www.release.ie, to whom we are very grateful for our initial web presence in 2007.
This move would not be happening without the Social Entrepreneurs Ireland ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Toilet Training and Communication
Many parents of children with special educational needs run into some difficulty when it comes to toilet training. It can source of some shame and embarrassment when you are comparing your child to others. Please remember, a lot of parents LIE about toilet training so do ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
What is the best way to teach a child with High functioning autism or Aspergers NOT to comment on certain characteristics about another person. When mixing with groups of mixed special needs such as at Special Olympics; my friend’s son is inclined to comment loudly on aspects of the other ...
Posted in Asperger Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, General | 2 Comments »