As it usually happens at this time of year, I come back to you with my standard slogan: “give words, no plastic”. A particularly important topic of our time, in the age of ecological crisis, a book given to a loved one is one of the best eco-trendy gesture that can be made to our… Read More Top 10+ Books – Best Xmas Gift Ideas
We notice quite early that reading would be one of the trickiest school skills to deal with in case of our Firstborn. He was always extremely interested in books, he loves to sit and hear someone reading. He adores picture books. He stops often and for a long time thoroughly analyzes every picture, every illustration,… Read More An Audio Gadget That Helps in Effective Reading Learning
Reading issue is quite common among kids who learn more than one language. A multilingual family as ours already knows that having and using more than three languages to communicate in school and home is definitely challenging. Especially for most children on the spectrum who hav or had in the past problems with speach delay,… Read More How I motivate my struggling reader to dip into the books
One, two, three, What’s under your Christmas tree? Christmas is around the corner and I prepared for you my special Christmas gifts list, nothing usual, everything special somehow. You will find something for your little curious toddler and something geek for your ‘nerdy’ school pupil. Everything that I include here is in our possession so we actually… Read More Autism – friendly Christmas gifts selection
I always thought that a great book is a better gift than a bar of milk chocolate. Kid or not. No matter gender, age and origin. A good book pushes you to take that bus and takes you for a imagination trip. Makes you feel, hear and see things no one experienced before. Gives you… Read More Creativity upgrade – feed you imagination!
Because the universe is to explore and there is no limit made yet so feel free to check what would be a good idea in order to expand your little astronaut’s book collection and lab objects “must have”. We are in constant motion here and we are always trying to spot something suitable for the age… Read More Space Oddity – Part II
You are still in time to make a decision about a summer trip to catch a bit of sun. If you’re lucky and hard-bitten last minute holidays, low budget flights and interesting destinations could be found easily now. It will be your first flight with kids? Maybe not. It will be your next flight after… Read More Plane trip – visual preparation for kids with autism
Solar system. Space journey. Planets and moons. Asteroids and comets. Space stations, telescopes and probes. Only a mom of a kid on spectrum knows all the smallest details of a topic. Every little fact. All of them. And the subject is a really huge never ending story. We found a lot of picture books and documentaries that meets… Read More Space Oddity
‘Poo Bum’ was our first one. You know, THAT first one which makes you move heaven and earth in search for other titles in the series. THE ONE you read for at least 48 times a day. Before bed time, after lunch, during potty training…On Sunday morning at 7 am, after nap, in the meanwhile… Read More Mommy! Read the book please!
This topic is as common as the presence of sugar in almost every food we can find in the mall. And if you are expecting a new baby, there is no way to avoid a dipper and most exhaustive explanation you can imagine to your autistic child. Start to do it ASAP to make… Read More Explaining a new sibling to my firstborn on spectrum