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What would you tell someone who said there was a new picture book available that describes autism perfectly? What if that person said that this book was able to break down some of the more common behaviors of this complex spectrum disorder, and uses kid language to make those unique behaviors more understandable for other children? Well one blogger and mother of two, one of whom has been diagnosed with autism, found the book Uniquely Wired: A story about autism and its gifts coul …

Excerpts taken from full article originally featured in Teach Magazine. Consider this: You are driving in traffic, it starts raining, and you can barely see in front of you. Your music is blasting so you turn it down to focus on driving. Your brain can only process so much sensory input at a time. In this scenario, your visual and auditory sensory systems are overloaded so you eliminate one (auditory) to focus on the other. This is what is it like for someone with autism who has difficul …

“Shoe!”...“Book!” My daughter’s first, simple words perfectly capture our family’s vices and values. From the time she could barely sit still long enough to listen to three pages of beginner board books, a request for reading together has rarely been denied. She never cared about how well we read, or if we did voices or not. The experience was really about taking the time to engage with her. Reading together with her as a toddler and a preschooler was an opportunity to be close together, t …