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“How Did You Learn To Read?”
A few days ago someone asked Emma, “How did you learn to read and spell?” Last night, in response to this question Emma wrote, “I learned by watching the words my mom read to me.” She went on to...
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Asking Emma
Imagine for a moment if you had an idea. It was an idea that was in keeping with a conversation taking place by others in the same room as you, but when you opened your mouth to share your thought, …...
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Transformations
I began this blog in April, 2010 as a document of what I thought would surely be our finding a cure for my daughter’s autistic neurology. At the time I did not question that this was a worthy goal and...
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Insights From a Non-Talker: Emma’s Conversation With A Friend
The following is a conversation Emma, Richard and I had with a friend of ours who works at a school. (DF = dear friend) I have paraphrased DF’s part of the conversation because a) I cannot type as...
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Presuming Competence – Revised
Over the past few years I’ve written about presuming competence as I have come to understand it, ‘here,’ ‘here,’ ‘here,’ and ‘here‘. Over the years my definition continues to shift or, perhaps more...
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The Assumptions We Make
When I first heard the words “presume competence” I had no idea what that meant. I cobbled together some ideas of what I’d read and thought it meant and did my best to put them into action. I did a …...
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Ideas, Insights and Discovery
This morning I had an idea, which turned out to be something I thought was a good idea, only to find that what might seem like a good idea to me, is not necessarily a good idea to my daughter, …...
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Autism ≠ Developmental Delay
There were few things that led us more astray than the idea of autism being a developmental delay. Last week Emma wrote, “Autism is not a developmental delay, rather it is a different road entirely.”...
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A Case for Merlin ~ By Emma
Nothing vanishes without questioning Merlin’s participation in the disappearance. He never admits to wrong-doing, but instead greets the attention with purrs. Even dog lovers fall under Merlin’s...
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“Let’s Pretend You Are the Autistic One”
(A note on Emma’s post. Because this is a fictitious dialogue that Emma wrote, for clarity’s sake, I asked her if it was okay to put the Autistic person’s words and thoughts in italics and the non...
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