Greetings Everyone ~

I hope your week is going well thus far. I am now trying Almond Milk with my son Matthew and he seemed to like it. Hoping to get him off soymilk and see if that changes any behavior issues.

Here's the latest articles from the Autism Spectrum Disorders site at BellaOnline.com.

General Public View on Autism
Contemplating reactions by people not affected by autism in their public comments on news articles and how we can turn that impression around to be more positive.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art59106.asp

Books, Movies and Music for Halloween
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art58993.asp

Tonight is last episode of General Hospital NightShift on Soapnet. They introduced an autism storyline starting with the diagnosis of the boy. I am interested in seeing how they finish this second season of the show.

Here are some links to share that I placed in my favs this week:

Lend4Health is looking for new loan requests
http://lend4health.blogspot.com/2008/10/looking-for-new-loan-requests.html

Free Web Seminar on Nov 5t -
http://www.greatplainslaboratory.com/home/eng/webconferences.asp

Parents helping each other
http://www.patientslikeme.com/

Team up for your child
http://www.meltonhillmedia.com//teupforyoch.html

October is Sensory Processing Disorders month. I wanted to share some you tube videos I viewed the other night and found them quite helpful on the topic of joint compression and brushing demonstrations from parents:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i47mm9jW0LM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAU9A47oy7M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vHSUz5m8E8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvtV8owbR3o

I even sent one link to Matthew's aide so maybe he can try while at school to do some joint compressions. I asked him to talk to OT about it as well.

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Bonnie Sayers, Autism Spectrum Disorders Editor
http://AutismSpectrumDisorders.bellaonline.com

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