And you know, that whole post was just an excuse to post this link

[conuly]

and I had to forget, right? Gah!

It's all on adaptive-thingies (I hesitate to say technology, because that's not all of it), and the stigma of them and whatnot.

(And if I have to come up with another synonym for thing, I'll scream. I should just buy a thesaurus. We've got four or five of them, but they're all in the basement.)

Comments

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Yeah one of the reasons I am learning so many techniques to help Ted out is honestly I don't want him to rely on his vest, because of the stigma.

Another reason is the vest has to be taken on and off every hour, and is awkward to deal with etc, but yes, I will be shallow and say it. It's not so much being shallow even as knowing that he could get teased for it.

In a way letting him wear the vest out and about (usually I save it for restaurants when he needs to focus) would give me an 'excuse' for when his behavior is less than stellar. But I don't want excuses, I want results. But that's something else to talk about, parents of disabled kids who make their kids victims and think that everyone should bend above and beyond and think disability = no discipline needed and that pisses me off.

But yeah, I hope Ted learns ASL or Spoken English because both would be easier socially than PECS or another communication device, although honestly something like pecs or another one would be more easily understood than ASL. My preferences for English and ASL though also have to do with a point made by more than one person we deal with -- both those languages are portable, and losing things and carrying things around aren't an issue. I mean seriously I have a hard enough time ordering the damn pictures and getting them organized -- ASL my fingers are always with me, English, my voice is always with me.

I wonder if I would still be as open as I am if I was in NYC, a place that seems to keep the disabled on the fringes. He'd probably be doing ABA crap, that much I bet. :/

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Yeah one of the reasons I am learning so many techniques to help Ted out is honestly I don't want him to rely on his vest, because of the stigma.

Another reason is the vest has to be taken on and off every hour, and is awkward to deal with etc, but yes, I will be shallow and say it. It's not so much being shallow even as knowing that he could get teased for it.

In a way letting him wear the vest out and about (usually I save it for restaurants when he needs to focus) would give me an 'excuse' for when his behavior is less than stellar. But I don't want excuses, I want results. But that's something else to talk about, parents of disabled kids who make their kids victims and think that everyone should bend above and beyond and think disability = no discipline needed and that pisses me off.

But yeah, I hope Ted learns ASL or Spoken English because both would be easier socially than PECS or another communication device, although honestly something like pecs or another one would be more easily understood than ASL. My preferences for English and ASL though also have to do with a point made by more than one person we deal with -- both those languages are portable, and losing things and carrying things around aren't an issue. I mean seriously I have a hard enough time ordering the damn pictures and getting them organized -- ASL my fingers are always with me, English, my voice is always with me.

I wonder if I would still be as open as I am if I was in NYC, a place that seems to keep the disabled on the fringes. He'd probably be doing ABA crap, that much I bet. :/