My son's 8th grade project - making videos for youtube

I homeschool my son, who's autistic and in eighth grade.  He is making videos to put on youtube for one of his classes.  He didn't talk a lot until I believe he was 7, and had limited talking while attending public school.  He went to public school pre k through half of second grade.  And that's when I started homeschooling him and he loves it and has grown so much.  

I am so proud of him and how far he's come with his communication and social skills.

His videos are just amazing to me.  

I extremely enjoy watching them and sharing them.

He has a wonderful personality that everyone loves.

He'd love for you to follow him on youtube and he will follow you back.

His channel is family friendly.

His channel name is - superfalcon 550

you can click on the link below to get there.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thelongsplay/videos

Thank you so much to anyone who follows him.   He is just so excited to get new followers and see his subscriber numbers grow.

Wishing you nothing but the best!!

Robyn

I'm a kid with autism book - autism awareness, bulletin board, posters, & more

My son, who has autism and I wrote a book together about autism.  I added it to Teachers pay Teachers and add TONS of autism awareness items to the packet.  I'd love for you to check it out and please let me know what you think.

Click on the link to go check out the preview.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Im-a-kid-with-autism-book-autism-awareness-bulletin-board-posters-more-3720258#comments-and-ratings

I just LOVE the book and the way Adam describes how he feels in each situation.  He did an excellent job explaining how he felt and why he does things the way he does.   The book is called "I'm a id with autism and here's the top 10 things I'd like you to know about me.."

Here are a couple of my favorite pages:

There's more amazing pages, so if you'd like to see more check out the preview on TpT.

I added so much more fun learning that you can also view on TpT.  I'm so excited and proud of this book.  

I hope you loved all the pictures and the sneak preview of the book, as much I do.  I hope you have an amazing day!!

Thank you so much and remember to spread awareness everywhere you go!

Simply Delightful in second grade

Light it up blue n your school!!! bulletin board, booksmarks, and lots more!! AUTISM AWARENESS!

I want to share an item I made in my teachers pay teachers store that I just love and hope you do too.  This is autism awareness month and I believe awareness is VERY IMPORTANT.

Light it up blue in your school!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Light-it-up-blue-autism-awareness-3723683

Here are a few of the pictures in the product for you to see, you can also go to the link above and look at the preview to see lots more pictures!!

I hope you and your students enjoy using and learning about awareness!!

Have an amazing day and please follow me on Instagram    @roeylynn 

thank you!

Autism and Adam

As April is quickly approaching I sit here thinking of my son and how amazing he is.... funny, great personality, smart, loves electronics, extremely good at legos and putting anything together, and he has autism.  

April is autism awareness month, I actually live it 24/7.  I continually learn about him and autism every day.   I'm proud of how far he's come since that little boy, who couldn't speak and had meltdowns as a way to communicate and release stress.  We work daily on communication and life skills.  I remember sitting for hours playing what I called the one item said three ways.   I'd hold or point to an item and say it three something about it three ways and then have him repeat the word.

Example:  a yellow ball

I'd say this is a ball, this is a yellow ball, this ball is round, say ball

and most of the time I could get him to say the word

I'd write each word he'd say down each day.  I have pages of hundreds of words and a few tears on them.

Some of my family would come over and play the game with him.  It got so everyone was talking this way in our home.  It helped so much and Adam slowly began talking more and more.  I'd just sit and talk and talk to him for no rhyme or reason just for him to hear me talk.  I'd sit and read for hours or play movies of books on the TV.  He started repeating the entire book word for word.  This is when we learned he had echolalia.  

He talks nonstop now and I LOVE it!!  I love talking with him and hearing him tell me stories and just communicating.   He loves talking about animals, science, history, and telling about all the books he loves reading.  He is a huge book lover.  He has eight book shelves plum full of books and still can find more books he needs.

I honestly believe homeschooling was the best thing I've done for him.  He didn't start talking until we began homeschooling and he's grown so much.  He LOVES homeschooling and tells me how thankful he is we school together.  That we take time to really go over the subject and we're able to pick subjects he wants to learn about each year.

I'm so thankful for my little boy, he's love, and everything he's taught me.

It you get the opportunity to spread awareness and teach others about how amazing kids with autism are, please do!!  AWARENESS is extremely important and so easy to do.

Thank you for taking the time to read my thoughts on my favorite little guy.

Robyn

Simply Delightful in second grade

Autism awareness day!

Rebecca from the Audi Devon Dealership reached out and asked that I share a post about a digital campaign they're doing in support of Autism awareness day, April 2nd.  I am more then happy to help them, as you know my son has autism.  I believe awareness and educating yourself is the key to understanding those with autism.  

Please take the time to go to their website and look at the information they have and you can check out their amazing cars too!

https://www.audidevon.com/

Rebecca said, "This is a cause near to our hearts, and we want to do our part in spreading awareness."  and I couldn't agree more.

#lightitupblue 

Thank you so much and I hope you have an amazing day!

Robyn

My pet peeve on "the autistic kid"

I have been reading some blogs about autism today.  All of the blogs were interesting and  informative with good ideas.  But my biggest pet peeve is someone saying "the autistic kid"   - come on, are you seriously going to use that label????   I have a child with autism and he is just that - a child with autism.  Not the autistic child.

For those of you reading this and not understanding what the differences is - here are a couple examples:

1. the diabetes kid                  or a child with diabetes
2. the cancer kid                    or a child with cancer
3. the heart problem kid        or a child with a heart problem

Now do you see what I am trying to say?

The health,  mental, social, physical challenges/problems with children should not be the definition of a child.  When I think of Adam - there are hundreds of characteristics that come to mind before autism.  And I hope all of the people in his life feel the same way about him. 

Well this ends my little soap box rant.  I'm off to put Legos together with ADAM.

My child has autism...

My child has autism….

But that is only one of his many qualities.  He is ~ loving, happy, funny, handsome, strong, respectful, playful, smart, kind, friendly, courageous, forgiving, honest, sensitive, and unselfish.  And the list goes on…..  If Autism is all you see… then look at what else you are missing!  Take the time to sit down and get to know him.  He is more then you will ever know, if you are too afraid to do more than say hi there and then walk away.  My child is so much more than autism….

Adam’s Awareness-pieces

Walk for autism

We are going to do the walk for autism next month and I am so excited about it!!  We are walking for the Autism Society. 
www.nwpa-asa.org/walk-registration.aspx   They are an awesome organization and we are hoping our family is able to learn more about autism and Adam!!

 

Unconditionally loved

I have never been loved so unconditionally before my little Adam came into my life. Someone with autism loves me and I could not be happier ♥ He is pure love and so sweet.

My little green duck :)

I love this picture!!!!  My son is so the little green duck and happily

 marching to the beat of his own drum :)

Autism

We took Adam to a Children's hospital on July 27th for an evaluation. The appt went good, we went back and began talking about all of Adam's characteristics and different things he likes to do. She asked a lot of questions and at the end she said there are a lot of red flags pointing to autism. She set up another appt for more screening and time for her to play and interact with Adam. She said she cannot tell us anything until the next visit, which is August 25. Adam did very good all day, but at first was confused why we were there. during all of the talking my sister and him sat and played with zoo animals and trains. He was very patience through it all. I really felt weird sitting there pointing out a 6 year olds problems, like I was pickinng on him but I know it all will help him in the end.... She is going to send me a report from the visit and I should get it in two weeks.