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No longer are there simply chores, lessons, and daily routines. Instead, everything you do with your child takes on the characteristic of therapy.  It definitely is a mind-set that envelops you 24/7. It has too if you are going to make a positive impact on your child.

Before you panic, I’m not talking about doing physical, occupational, or sensory therapy exercises 24/7, but that you start the process of looking at everything you do from brushing his teeth or teaching how to brush his own teeth to setting the table for dinner, to learning the alphabet or multiplication facts in light of assisting your child cope with this world or hindering her development.

Yes, there will be many hours of “formal” therapy, but there will be hundreds of hours a week of informal therapy – an “as you go” mentality that can be even more effective than the direct hands-on therapy mini-sessions.

Our plan is that this section will never be completed, but that we and other families will be adding to it.  Giving you real help as methods that have worked for us, other PREACCH families

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• “As You Go” therapies – a positive mindset that embraces the blessing of your child and his or her unique set of challenges.

• Sensory Therapies – these help address real sensory issues that you child is trying to adapt to (The good news:  every time we have “cured” the physical disparity or rather given Trent the tools to cope with his superhuman sensory abilities – the accompanying “isms” have disappeared)

• Academic Approaches – these are ways you can adapt common lessons to better reach a child with autistic tendencies.

• Social Protocols – Our society has so many rules, rather set or just accepted, of what others consider proper behavior.  Due to the hurdles our children have to overcome, they often are not in the least concerned with table manner, introductory etiquette, or personal interaction.  There are some ways we can give them ways to be less noticeable or rather less susceptive to cruel peer pressure or ridicule. Other children can be so mean.

Photo 1- Little brother, J.J., has been a BIG help to big sister (Miss E.), by getting her to participate in more sensory and pretend play. Here, their daddy helped them make a log cabin, and they are playing with the sensory beans to make a road. (From Vicky Stankus)
Photo 2- Time for school! Miss E. is working on cursive from Handwriting Without Tears. Little brother, J.J., is working on his Learning to Read program through School of Tomorrow (aka ACE - Accelerated Christian Education). Miss E. actually learned to read with the same program, and is still using the same curriculum for a large portion of her academics. (From Vicky Stankus)

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