Mid-April is the perfect time to start a sensory garden for children with sensory issues so they can enjoy and be part of the garden. This project can be as small as a planter or window box to a real, backyard, walkabout garden with places to stroll and sit. The design and layout can provide a stimulating journey through the senses, heightening awareness and bringing positive learning experiences. Or on a small scale, an herb garden is a good way to start as herbs have a wealth of sensory awakening attributes.

When I was a child growing up next door to my grandparents, one of my fondness memories is helping my grandmother with their vegetable garden. We spent hours together, sixty years of age difference apart, caring for the garden. Then while raising our three children, we always had a vegetable garden which must have left fond memories for them also as now our grown children each have their own vegetable gardens in their backyards. From buying the first seeds to eating the produce from your very own garden each step in the process is a teaching and sharing experience to the sensory child and to all children.

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Here is a link to a inspriational story of how Nicholas's love of water and the help of brain therapy,, Nicholas is competing and doing well.

http://www.kidk.com/news/local/92056554.html?tab=video

Hope you all enjoy!

Remember the worry about noises bugging my son, well whom ever told me about using headphones was just brilliant idea. we have a radio that have had some time, it had headphones and we spent all weekend looking for them, well we found them, my son plugged them into the radio while playing his x-box and listened to the radio all night sunday, said work good. then last night was thinking of getting headphones for the computer also, so I looked on back of computer found the spot for the headphones,ad tried the radio ones, it worked, so he had choice of using them on the radio and on the computer, this morning he was in a great mood for once. tried the headphones that came with the x-box, they only cover one ear, too tight and can still hear noises. so ordered a set that covers both ears for the x-box from Amazon.

am hoping this will continue to be a good sign with the headphones. so I want to thank whoever told me this idea, am so grateful.

I love the categories of the toys, squishy, thingy, shiney, etc..

my son liked the imaginex toy sets, the pirates, has ships, small boats, etc the castle-midevil times set. he still has them, has not played for couple years, but will not give them away, he would set them up all over the living floor for hours, play for hour or so, then put it all awy, next day set it up again, play, etc..

then he discovered heroscape, he loved to set that up all over the dinning room table, sometimes it was there for days till he tired of it, used to play them with him, were small differnt groups of creatures, people, etc had trees, etc.. still has that also. that was a bit pricey, but well worth the expense as he played for hours.

now he is into his X-box video games, rent the video games from Gamefly as when he tires of the game or beats it, send it back only about $12 a month to join. also joined netflix so he can put the movies he wants to rent too. so that helps him do decisions which is very hard for him.

I am so beginning to understand what he likes more now.

when he played the james bond games, was mutiplayer, so he taught me how to use the controller, had fun and laughed at how horrible I was playing that, occasionaly I watch him play games now. even if they are not intresting, I am there to ask quwestions, etc. he also says my being in the room watching may help him get thru hard part he could not do before no matter how he tried.

also says that some games like call of duty (army games) or dead rising (kill off zombies) are his way of taking frustrations out, like if kids picked at him, or teacher was mean, etc So I guess what ever way he uses to take out his frustrations in a game is better than physically hurting someone or something.

George Braddock is the founder of Creative Housing Solutions www.gbcchs.com a leading housing consultant and general contractor with a 25 year proven track record in pioneering the implementation of person-centered planning principles to more than 1,500 projects and homes for people with autism and other disabilities. He is also an ARCHway Consortium member.

This blog article is a first of many articles ARCHway will be posting that George Braddock has written in order to show you the many examples of housing adaptations and modifications for improving the quality of homes for people with autism.

At our pharmacy we fill hundreds of compounded prescriptions every month.  New mom’s/dad’s come into the pharmacy often with 5-6 new prescriptions and a limited budget.  They often ask, which is more important (i.e. what can I put off until next month?)  My off the cuff answer is “all of them”, but I realize that compounded medications can become expensive quickly.  Many times prescription insurance does not cover custom compounds so the patients have to pay out of pocket. 

So…here is what I call the Three Big Bats (the 3 best therapies for your money – in my opinion)

1.       Trio Injections (Methy B-12, Flonic Acid, NAC)

2.       GFCF Diet

3.       Hyperbaric Chamber therapy  read more »

Does your child tell you that “it hurts” or leans against a chair or clinches his fist and presses hard against his belly?  If so...

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