January 2012

I have been thinking that while the biggest thing we have changed in Sarah’s life is to add Sarah-Rise time, there are also many other people who have been providing lovely support and that I wanted to acknowledge them too. Sarah has a wonderful teacher and assistant teacher at her preschool. And every week Sarah… Read more »

This past week we again totaled 7 hrs and 40 min of official Sarah-Rise time. I had decided that one of our goals would be modeling nodding yes and shaking no, encouraging her to do the same. Monday morning Sarah shook her head “no” after I prompted her that she could say “no” instead of… Read more »

This past week was the first week with volunteers to watch Amy and I started training two volunteers to be in the playroom with Sarah. I train two more this week. I also evaluated Sarah using the developmental model that the Autism Treatment Center of America/Son-Rise Program provides. I had evaluated her over the summer… Read more »

We have now been back in the swing of things at home for about a week, at the level I was doing before the Christmas break. That means some days we get none and some days I get 30-60 min depending on Amy’s nap and Carl’s work schedule. This week I think I’ve had about… Read more »