Retiring wanderer blog of tired Autism mommy. I usually write as kids goe to bed at end of our journey for the day. This is a blog to share joy and challenges of being both a plus sized woman and mother of special needs child in today's society. Feature art fashion and autobiography.AS well as special needs topic of interest.
What does it do?
This program was developed by Samsung, in collaboration with professors, doctors and UX designers. Seven scientifically-produced missions were created to help children with autism make eye contact, read facial expressions and express their emotions. 20 children trained on the program over eight weeks and *60% of them showed improvement in making eye contact.
Rewards
To motivate the children to train on the program every day, we turned this program into a fun and easy-to-use app. Rubies, character cards and points will be awarded to the child based on performance. Music and voice guide are customized to the child’s theme preferences.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.lookatme
Pepi bath is a role-play game where children learn about hygiene in a fun way. The app has 4 parts as different situations in which this cute character Pepi – a boy or a girl to choose – appears: at the sink, washing clothes, going to a toilet and taking a bath.
Pepi Bath can be played both as a set process of cleaning or without any pre-set sequence, where the player is free to choose what they do. In Pepi Bath there are no stress or win-lose situations. With Pepi Play children develop their sense of humor instead.
next app is Daniel tiger With Daniel Tiger’s Grr-ific Feelings, children can play and explore their feelings through four rich, engaging activities:
You can practice calming down just as Daniel does, with a squeeze and a deep breath.You help Daniel clean up his toys and put away the silverware. Count to four with Daniel when he feels so mad that he wants to roar
The photo booth talks about different emotion and encourages child to match their own facial expressions to different emotions.
I always hear in forum how do I explain to my family one what autism means. Well this is best video I have found to date to explain autism in positive manner.
I have been rather obsessed with Ursula lately. After Disney scandal about downsizing her doll. I ironically came across Disney article saying Disney character was based on famous drag Queen Divine. Which is kinda cool. I didn't care for Ursula much as child. I was more and Ariel girl. Not because of who she was but how she looked. But the adult woman in me respect Ursula more. She wasn't afraid to go after what she wanted. She went to far mind you being full on evil. But she had fun was flamboyant and generally seemed like she was having a blast. She didn't have man didn't want one. She'd rather have world domination. While Ariel cried whole movie over getting a man and keeping him.I am weird as an adult I kinda find myself routing for villain more they general seem like they would be more fun to hang with. http://celebs.answers.com/movies/10-real-life-inspirations-behind-these-iconic-disney-characters?param4=fb-ca-de-entertainment&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=ssde-all#slide=3
Stimming, you’ve heard the phrase from other parents who have a child on the spectrum but what does it mean? Stimming is a shortened version of the phrase self-stimulatory behavior. This type of behavior can range from arm flapping and repetitive behavior, all which are out of the ordinary for us, but are actually soothing actions for a child on the spectrum. As well another form of stimming is chewing or sucking on clothing.
As many stimming actions may not seem “normal” or are not socially acceptable, we should understand what about it that makes our children happy and relaxed. In doing so we then can find a different action that is more acceptable in society that still gives them that same happy feeling.My son used to chew on necklace clothes etc. I went on autism forum and read about other children doing the same thing. A great way to redirect them from not chewing on clothes it they have item I had never heard of called chewy jewel or chewy jewel. Lessening or modifying stims can be tricky, but several approaches may be helpful. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) may help individuals to eliminate or modify some of their stimming. Occupational therapy is another useful tool.
In some cases, stimming can be reduced with medications that address underlying issues of anxiety. Finally, some people with autism can learn through practice and coaching to either change their stims (squeeze a stress ball rather than flap, for example) or engage in excessive stimming only in the privacy of their own homes.
I usually post about special needs posts. But I saw something today I just needed to talk about. I grew up watching Sailor moon. Serena in general because she out of all the anime looked like me. Not the alien spindly body like me but more like a real girl she talked about wanting to lose weight about boys etc. She was a little boy crazy and not the best of role model but to me she was one I most related to at the time. Aside from usual teen stuff and fighting alien bad guys :) They brought out reboot. I was really excited. I had actually shown old version to my son. I know I might get payback later for it but I am not huge fan of gender stereo typing show they watch.
I used to be HUGE fan of this and was really excited until I saw the sketches.I have actually shown the original show to my kindergarten sons. I wanted to share with them stuff I liked when I was little and I liked how they weren't twirling around in belly shirts Aside from Serena who was fun it had some good female role model.They really like it. I don't mean to rain on anyone's parade I just don't like direction it is going. Sailor moon was only anime with more realistic body type. She was almost on the pudgy side for anime standards at least. Which makes sense because she always whining about need to go one diet which is running gag for better part of series.
First Disney actually make villain Barbie dolls makes a rather rotund Urula size two because they want her "more stylized."Which baffles me why they even used her in first place. Why not leave her out rather than make size "24" a size "2" Now they are stretching out Sailor Moon body out to unrealistic proportions.They even rebooted Candy Land character to make them even skinnier. Same went for rainbow bright. When does it end? I love sailor moon but I might pass on this. Now term "stylized" keeps popping up to justify these changes. Now when I hear it seems to be on par with saying made skinnier without offending parents.They didn't change anything about her really outfit are the same but now she grown a foot and lost a lot of weight. As mom this sadden me because this isn't what i grew up with. It isn't near a normal body type they can achieve. We as parent are accepting body acceptance isn't getting better it's getting worse. On step at a time our childhood is getting re written and plus sized bodies will not be a part of it eventually under pr term more "stylized"in short meaning replacing fatter model with skinnier models and them reselling it to us as something completely new.
Now a even more drastic design change. Let not look at the heroes we loved but the villains. Take Ursula. She was only plus sized female character in the Disney universe. I wasn't biggest fan of her as child I really like her confidence as adult woman. She wasn't the type to give up everything for a boy and knew what she wanted. As an adult woman I related her more than Ariel. he's evil sure but no one perfect lol. By no means am I saying this is healthy body type. But neither is the one that follow this design. This year they re wrote history yet again with Disney collect and I'll show you want mean.
It has two aspects the flash cards as well as object finding game
I like this app for numerous reasons it help to identify item around the house. I has a find item play style to it to help reinforce learning rather than relying solely on flash cards which is has as well. You learn name of everyday item and then you need to find them through out the house. Which is great for labeling hand eye coordination etc. My boy love the little bear and it make learning fun. Once you find item is has verbal prompt that tell child items name to help reinforce labels. . click tio go to app
Here is an example of flash card provided
Here is example of the game you search from room to room trying to find object listed on left hand side
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