Cook-KIE Alex would learn to pilot an F-16 in exchange for a chocolate-chip cookie. Autism parenting sites all warn about overusing bribes, but nothing sticks Alex to his barber’s chair or to a seat at a family event like a chocolate chip cook...

It’s been a tough day and tonight has not been much better. There are a lot of things about CP that I’m good at handling as a father. But there are a lot of issues that come up with Haley that while not directly caused by CP are likely influenced ...

I’d like to write about Isaac’s Fro or Abby asking us why Mel and I are the ones who get to give the choices, and I suppose if I wrote more regularly I would cover some of those topics. Today March 31 2011 was a big day in my life. ...

Today is National Cerebral Palsy Awareness Day. For those who don’t already know the origins of this blog are my children and my oldest daughter has Cerebral Palsy. When I first started blogging regularly Haley’s Cerebral Palsy was much of my inspiration and it led to the 2009 Father of ...

Ari Ne'eman Says No to "Wandering" designation   Once again an “autistic” adult who fully functions in adult life has weighed in on a situation that, if he is succeeds, would negatively impact the lives of low functioning autistics...

While we still need to have the issue clarified for certainty, rumour is suggesting  that the new CUPE 2745 collective agreement for TA’s forgoes the needs of the child in favour of protecting the seniority of the TA’s What all parents of spe...

Autistic Black Man Sits waits for a library to open and ends up spending 10 years in Jail    An Autistic Black Man who went to the library to early and sits on the grass to wait for it to open ends up with someone calling 911 reporting ...

  Kaspar the friendly robot teaches autistic children to enjoy a simple hug   I found an interesting story about some work they are doing in the UK with a robot teaching children to read emotions.   I had actually been researchin...

For years we have been repeatedly told that Dr. Wakefield’s study had been not repeated regardless how many times different researchers had tried. We have been repeatedly told that no matter how many ways the researchers tried no one had been able to...

I find this video to be quite realistic when talking to the majority of the medical field about the realities of what we as parent’s see when we watch our children progress