03 February 2012
Here we are in the midst of winter and doesn’t it feel like spring? And, speaking of spring – isn’t that summer I see just around the corner? It’s true, summer is coming, and I know this not just because I tell myself so, but because I have already received registration reminders from the camps [...]
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15 August 2011
Very little annoys me more than being rushed through the seasons. I blame this entirely on retailers, who began bombarding us with back to school items two weeks ago. I have already received my winter LL Bean catalogue, September’s slew of magazines and, in a recent trip to Costco, faced a complete aisle already decked [...]
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08 August 2011
We have two children, our daughter is 5 and our son is 3 ½. We knew what to expect once Jaxson came along, all of the milestones he was supposed to reach and at what ages he should achieve them. So I tried not to worry when he still didn’t have any first words or sounds [...]
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25 April 2011
E-Newsletter |Apr 2011 |Issue 2 Chair’s Message World Autism Day is April 2. The United States has its Autism Awareness month in April. Canada’s month is October, and in-between there are walks – June 26 in Toronto this year – events and fundraisers monthly. It’s easy to get confused, I know. Like [...]
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12 January 2011
E-Newsletter |Jan 2011 |Issue 1 Chair’s Message New Year, New Resolve Every year on New Year’s Eve, I sit at home enjoying some quiet in the last hours of the year. I know that this flies in the face of every tradition of this auspicious night: the parties, toasts, fancy cocktails, Auld Lang Syne and, of course, the midnight kiss. Quite [...]
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01 December 2010
Autism Parents Talking (APTALK) is a voluntary group of parents from across Ontario that started in 2010. Click here to for more information on ApTalk.ca
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06 July 2010
At two years old Pake was a master of destruction and escape. Our lives were full of chaos. While I was putting the garbage bag full of garbage back in the bin that he had taken out and dumped, he was flushing an entire roll of toilet paper. I couldn’t keep up with the housework [...]
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28 March 2010
Our oldest daughter Brooklyn was diagnosed with autism at 24 months old. When she was 4 ½ years of age we got the call that she would be starting IBI. At that time she was non-verbal, had the receptive language of 1 month old, no attending skills and her only method of communication was screaming with some occasional [...]
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28 March 2010
Alex captured my heart the very first time I saw him, just ten minutes after he was born! He was my first grandchild and I loved holding him in my arms and just being with him. I am an active grandmother and delighted in being able to take my grandson a couple of times a [...]
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28 March 2010
Tavish was our first child and as such, we had no frame of reference in terms of what “normal” development was for a baby. In retrospect, Tav was displaying symptoms of autism from infancy, but how could we know? By the time Tavish was 12 months old, we started to realize that there was something wrong [...]
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