Simply the best site for information and inspiration.
We Connect Now was the brainchild of Gabriela McCall in 2008. The site connects college age students of all disabilities with information and each other in a colorful array of information and inspiration.
We Connect Now offers stories, law, a blog, focus of the months, events, news, links, and contact information. I spent some time on this site after being contacted by the creater. I am impressed and want to recommend it to both students and parents as a fine resourse for ASD and all disabilities.
Thank you Gabriela, for sending this my way in order to share it with my readers. SLPs, this would be a great resourse to share at an IEP with the parents of high school students who plan to attend college.
Be sure to check out and “Like” me on my new Facebook page, KATHIE HARRINGTON’S AMAZING AUTISM PAGE.
This is another new way of presenting information and inspiration to the autism/ASD community.
Share with your family and friends.
After all – life is AMAZING!
Oral Motor Exercises such as blowing bubbles, clicking tongue, wiggling tongue, vowel exchanges, pursing lips, making silly faces. Beneficial for articulation, apraxia, autism, attention/focus. Parents and professionals should always provide a model and have FUN.
BE SURE TO CHECK OUT ~TONGUE TRACKS~
Just what every parent and professional needs for oral motor exercise and fun!
I learned this from my daughter, Katie, when she was eighteen months old.
It was a Thursday afternoon in 1974. I was reading a book on a snowy day in MO.
Doug, three and one-half years old was playing with an object repeatedly,
as he did most days. He was content and being himself with ASD. Katie, Doug’s
sister walked and talked early and liked control. She wanted what Doug had.
“Doug, Doug, Doug.” Katie was calling her brother. He didn’t look. He didn’t respond.
I sat silent on the couch as I watched the scene unfold.
“Doug, Doug.” Katie didn’t accept Doug’s lack of response. She marched over to Doug’s side, put her face up to his, and announced, “My turn,” as she pulled the treasure from his hands. That seemed to elicit their Joint Attention.
I present many strategies for Joint Attention in my blog at ADVANCE for the Speech/Language Pathologist. They work and I hope you have some of your own to share with me on either of my blogs.
- Your sensory child and ASD
Do You Know Me? is a wonderful, easy chart for both parents and professionals to assist in identifying sensory processing issues in children. (perhaps in yourselves as well) A sensory processing disorder (SPD) goes hand-in-hand with autism and Aspergers. Parents and professionals don’t want to miss this aspect of their child’s total world of ASD.
This flyer, created by Melissa Zacheri, is unique and useful as can be.
Take a look, you’ll find it on a walk down Sensory Street.
You’ll be glad you did.
Get it now from AliMed
Designed for both PARENTS and PROFESSIONALS,
Tongue Tracks is fun, interactive, and will improve your child’s
oral motor strength and flexibility for improved articulation skills.
Tongue Tracks will assist children of all ages who experience:
mild to sever speech delay
apraxia/apraxic
Down syndrome
ASD/autism
CP
Track your child’s way to improved intelligibility with
Tongue Tracks
KATHIE’S HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD LIST
Let me say this
Before I start my list.
I didn’t see them all
That would be a giant call.
Even some that I did see
I didn’t like that well for me.
But all, in all, this list for you to see
Are movies by Hollywood staring ASD.
| Title |
Stars |
Date |
| Adam |
Hugh Dancy, Rose Bryne |
2009 |
| Temple Grandin |
Claire Dane |
2010 |
| My Name is Khan |
Shah Rukh Khan |
2010 |
| Mozart and The Whale |
Josh Harnett, Radha Mitchell |
2005 |
| I Am Sam |
Sean Penn, Dakota Fanning |
1998 |
| Rain Man |
Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise |
1988 |
| The Other Sister |
Juliette Lewis, Dianne Keaton |
1999 |
| Mercury Rising |
Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin |
1998 |
| What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? |
Johnny Depp, Leo DiCaprio |
1993 |
| Little Man Tate |
Dianne Weist, Harry Connick, Jr. |
1991 |
| Backstreet Dreams |
Brook Shields, Burt Young |
1990 |
| House of Cards |
Kathleen Turner, T. Lee Jones |
1993 |
| The Boy Who Could Fly |
Jay Underwood, Fred Savage |
1986 |
| Dear John |
Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried |
2010 |
| The Black Balloon |
Rhys Wakefield, Luke Ford |
2008 |
| Snow Cake |
Sigourney Weaver |
2006 |
| David’s Mother |
Kirstie Alley, Sam Watterson |
1994 |
| Miracle Run |
Mary-Louise Parker |
2004 |
| After Thomas |
Keeley Hawes, Ben Miles |
2006 |
| A Mother’s Courage (documentary) |
Kate Winslet (narrator) |
2009 |
| Mary and Max |
animated |
2009 |
Enjoy and let me know YOUR thoughts.
Did you know that I am blogging on a weekly basis for ADVANCE for the Speech-Language Pathologist? All of my blogs are for the SLP, parents, and other professionals.
You can sign-up to receive the blog each week through
ADVANCE. A two-minute read for a lifetime of information to help your child/adult.
Let me know what YOU would like to see me blog about.
The King's Speech
“The Stuttering Foundation of America gives a hero’s welcome to The King’s Speech, which has brought overwhelmingly positive attention to the plight of people who stutter. The King’s Speech, with its 12 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress nominations, continues to put a much-needed spotlight on stuttering. For the stuttering community, there are few, if any, more accurate portrayals of the anguish faced by people who stutter, or of the hardship it places on family and friends, than in this movie. Stuttering is most often the province of comic relief, and never of the hero. The King’s Speech gives the stuttering community a hero who inspires and a movie that promotes understanding and acceptance of the complexities of stuttering. We congratulate the directors, producers, writers and actors for their work, and their humanity in helping millions of people who stutter with understanding and hope.”
At the Las Vegas Santa Run
Don’t miss a series of blogs at On the Road with Humpty Dumpty as HE reviews his 2010 adventures. I started this family friendly blog in May, 2010. The whole idea is to “get off your wall and live.”
Everyone of us, even Tiny Tim, has something that can hold us back in life ~ that is ~ if you let it.
Enjoy life ~ smile with it ~ cry when you must ~ but then, pick yourself up and live!
(This is my Humpty Dumpty – the one in the little plaid suit. He’s a joy in my life. Follow his adventures on HIS blog.)
We Connect Now was the brainchild of Gabriela McCall in 2008. The site connects college age students of all disabilities with information and each other in a colorful array of information and inspiration.
