If you have read my ‘Therapy’ blog about the ‘brushing’ developmental therapy we took our son for, you will know that it is a developmental therapy that aims to release any primitive (baby) reflexes that a person has retained, that can hold them back from developing properly. When I first visited the Access Potential website …
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Back to School
WHAT A TRANSFORMATION …. Returning to school in September 2019, for Year 2. Like all parents after a long summer break we were anxious how this would go. But based on last year, when our sons behaviour took a dramatic turn for the worse, we were even more anxious. So this time we were also …
Therapy continued….
Below are the developments we have seen in my son that I recorded in my journal in more detail and in time order. All the points below that I recorded were new developments that my son struggled with and had never really done before. Playing A few days after starting therapy he said, “i’m going …
Therapy
So here goes, this blog is about the developmental therapy my son has been receiving, or ‘brushing’ as we call it. A family friend who was aware of our struggles with our son’s autism and his challenging behaviour asked if we had heard of ‘Retained Primitive Reflexes’? She gave us a brief explanation which sounded …
Our Autism Journey
The birth… Let’s start at the beginning… Our son was born by cesarean section, in hospital. I had gestational diabetes when I was pregnant and so I was induced. The birth was a long, difficult, painful and scary, I didn’t progress, I had an epidural but that wasn’t strong enough to counter the levels of …
What a couple of days
The Educational Psychologist Visit On the 2nd last day of the school year an Educational Psychologist came to assess our son at his school for his Education and Health Care Plan (ECHP) assessment. Talk about leaving it to the last minute! The Ed pysch assessed him for 45 minutes and then we came into school …
My First Blog Post
My Morning Pages… This is the first post on my new blog. Firstly a very brief introduction. I’m a mum of a six year old boy, we live in Bristol, UK. I’ve written a journal for a number of years, or another way to describe it is writing ‘my morning pages’. Back in 2005 I …
Hello, an introduction
I am a mum with a 6 year old boy with Autism. We live in Bristol. I’m 46, I had my son when I was 40 years old. This blog is about… our life our parenting journey our autism journey my son’s groundbreaking therapy. our trials and tribulations. I think that covers it! This blog …
Oh! Autism 