This is a very interesting post on exactly what the title says - the communication needs of autistic children. Very basic information, but good and relevant. Many parents and therapists focus on the child needing to communicate verbally, but this post gets across how important it is for them just to be able to communicate and i

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Hi and welcome to our blog. This blog is created by two mothers for all mothers. Our names are Rachel and Sheryl and between the two of us we have five lovely boys and we both have one boy each that has behavioral issues.

We decided to create this blog and our website at http://www.ourexceptionalkids.com in order to help o

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More people are becoming aware of Autism these days and although no-one likes to think that their child may have something wrong with them, the number of children diagnosed with Autism seems to have increased over recent years. It is because of the increase in awareness of the disorder that people are learning more about the sy

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Sure, flowers and candy are nice, but Jim Carrey has more authentic ways of showing his love to girlfriend Jenny McCarthy on Valentine's Day.

In an interview on the Oprah Winfrey Show set to air on Monday the comedian says, "We're just gonna go everywhere she ever existed – you know, where she had her first kiss. [We'r

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Aspergers is a syndrome in the Autism Spectrum Disorder family. People that have Aspergers syndrome are on the higher end of the spectrum meaning that their symptoms aren’t as bad as Autism. The main problem with Aspergers syndrome is that people have trouble in social situations. Although they are often quite intelligent they

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The number of children diagnosed with Autism has increased significantly over recent years. Whether this is due to the fact that there is more awareness of the disorder leading to more diagnosis or whether it is due to other environmental factors that is actually increasing the number of children having the disorder, whatever

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It is a tough job being parents of autistic children and sometimes it can be hard to just let your child be a kid. It is easy to get wrapped up in everything to do with your child’s treatment that you can sometimes forget to let them have some fun. It is natural for a parent to just want to keep their child safe and with a spec

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According to Katie Price's ex nanny, she's "no mom of the year."  Becky Gauld, former nanny to Katie (aka Jordan) and her husband Peter Andre, like to appear like great parents when the cameras are rolling for their reality TV show, but when noone's watching, it's a totally different story.<

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Actress Jenny McCarthy's five-year old son Evan is autistic and recently Jenny has been quite vocal about the alternative "autism treatments," that may lead to a cure for autism. Of course there is a wide autism spectrum and it falls under the "unknown" and there are not many conventional treatments as of yet. What may w

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Just got back from the naturopath The naturopath took a blood sample and looked at it under the microscope and put it on the TV screen, that was so good. She said his blood isn’t unhealthy but she can definitely see that there is something diet related going on. The red blood cells should be floating around individually, like

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I do this thing, where I glom on to something and then yammer on about it incessantly, beating it to death until everyone around me is just plain sick of hearing about it and eventually develops an aversion to whatever it was that I was trying to sell them on in the first place. It's happened with movies, books, songs - even m

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That’s right - another new website. Actually this one I have partnered with another Internet Marketer to create this site which you can visit at http://www.ourexceptionalkids.com

This site is dedicated to our beautiful children. We are both the mothers of boys and we both have one child that has behavior problems. My son

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