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[L Suk]

Hi All,
I'm deeply sadden for the loss of this young man who had autism. It was a horrific accident at a swimming pool in Surrey. My heart goes out to the family.
and Pls,pls, pls, keep close eyes on your children near or away from water.

http://www.peacearchnews.com/breaking_news/171839471.html

[Les Elton]

>It wasn't about therapy, but more about cool, and social acceptance.
We're thinking of getting him an acoustic for X'mas, as it is much
more transportable, and kinda hip to have a young guy, pull out a
guitar at a gathering, and strum a couple of tunes.

Awesome successes! thanks for sharing.
I totally agree with you about the social aspect, as he could take an acoustic just about anywhere (like the local park!), and then enjoy all the cool social interaction, at whatever level he is at! (my son is freeken rude in many social interactions, but… he is getting way way better with practice ).
How about "Smoke Under Water", it should be pretty simple, "Da Da Da, Da Da.Da Da, Da Da Da..Da Da". Plus all the kids around him will go crazy about it

[David Chan]

Well, P has been playing the electric guitar for the last couple of years. We chose electric, since one fo his Tx't was a musician, and she suggested electric because you don't have to press as hard on the strings. In any event, P has always liked music, so away we went, he started with a Tx't that was a musician, and now he just has a regular teacher.

In any event, he's made practicing a part of his daily routine. and we design the practice, so that he never practices the same thing everyday, he has two rotations, and so he does the one on one day, and then a different on on the other, and it rotates.

He's learnt some useful tunes like happy birthday, which comes in handy. Learning chords too, so he can do a couple of pop tunes. Only need 3 chords to be in a rock band… Interesting note… the song "chain of fools" with Aretha Franklin, is exactly ONE Chord…. yeah… see, you don't need to know a lot of them, just strumming one chord, then transition to the other one.

It wasn't about therapy, but more about cool, and social acceptance. We're thinking of getting him an acoustic for X'mas, as it is much more transportable, and kinda hip to have a young guy, pull out a guitar at a gathering, and strum a couple of tunes.

When he is practicing, it let's him do stuff on his own for a probably a good half hour, we've put in scheduled breaks in there, so it's less rigid… I guess we could have tried piano as well, but, since we didn't own a piano/keyboard. and it's hard to schlep a piano to a picnic…..

just strumming along.

Mr. P's Dad

[Les Elton]

>Ok, Sabrina I will join you in calling B.S. on Music Therapy for
Autism but I don't have any scientific evidence to discount it.

I don't know if this is relevant, but we recently started "TV" therapy with our son. Him, myself and his sister all sit down together and watch good 'ol TV shows. I download older one's like Threes Company, Magnum PI, Big Bang Theory and we all talk about the plots, characters, what we thought was funny, and our son will call us the character names for the next few days,… so you know he is generalizing what he is watching and processing. And the kid is laughing throughout the comedy shows. It's great! Our son would never do this about 2 years ago, I just placed him in front of the TV with me and his sister and let him laugh when he saw something funny. Now he is INTO it. TV therapy, it's up there, cool eh?

My son can tell you all the character names on all the TV shows we want, talk about the plots, who does what, who his favorite character is and ask who yours is. It's all cool

Way cheaper then Music Therapy, and the learning from it is amazing. Our son, would normally just play with his cars on the floor when we watched TV, and whatever you saw in the movie theater would not phase him. But comedy seemed to crack him open. Unsure if anyone else has seen this with there child ? Thought I would lend this note.

[Julie Ng]

Hi David,

I saw your post the other day so I'm guessing you are looking for paid gigs for Mr P. I was at Value Village the saturday looking for Halloween costumes and saw several DDA interns there shuffling goods around. Perhaps the DDA can help Mr. P secure a job somewhere.

As for unpaid gigs this summer we had Alex sucessfully volunteer at the local community center working in the day camps supporting the little ones. He had 2 volunteer jobs, the other one was working at the local park, dishing out chips, freezies, pop, & hot dogs plus doing what ever the park playground supervisor needed volunteers to do. He was very motivated and was always early for his shift. He got along great with the other crew members and was invited to the volunteer luncheon at the end of the summer.

Regards

Joachim

[Julie Ng]

Ok, Sabrina I will join you in calling B.S. on Music Therapy for Autism but I don't have any scientific evidence to discount it.

Their musictherapy.org website has some blurb about "Through peer-reviewed journals inside the profession such as the Journal of Music Therapy ….." to support their claims but it sounds kind of bogus to me.

Alex, has been "working on" playing the piano for the last 7 years and he hates it. He hasn't even made it to Grade 1 piano yet but we keep doing it purely to torture him. (Note: I like the piano and I want my kids to play.) At the begining we decided that we didn't want to "ABA the piano teachings" so we just threw him in, to sink or swim and he has been treading water ever since, maybe he would have done better if we did the ABA piano thing but why worry about the road not taken.

Are there many other ABA kdis out there trying piano? Not for Music Therapy but for Music Fun!

Joachim

[Sabrina Freeman]

Music Therapy: Discordant Noise on the Internet

http://www.autismpundit.com/files/category-asperger0027s-syndrome.html

If it helps those in your social network, please share.

[Vasylyna Bohun]

Hello,

With a growing list of available iPad apps, can anyone suggest a few that they had experience with, which might be helpful for a mild PDD-NOS child? Any feedback is much appreciated.

Thanks!

[Holly Korstad]

CLOVERDALE/LANGLEY – ABA Neighborhood Support Network/parent get together on Wednesday September 26th at 7:30pm. This is a chance for parents to share ideas with other families, ask questions and get support. Please email Holly at hkorstad@gmail.com for the address and to confirm attendance.

Please forward this message to anyone you think might be interested!

[Bing Wang]

ABA Therapist required in the Vancouver Joyce Collingwood area to work with a 3 year old boy who is recently diagnosed with PDD-NOS.

Shifts include Tuesday afternoon, Thursday morning or afternoon, and Friday afternoon.

At least 2 years ABA treatment experience is required. Pay is commensurate with experience.

Applicants must:
• be responsible and energetic dealing with kids
• at least 2 years or 3,000 hours of ABA therapy experience under RASP approved consultant's supervision.
• be at least 19 years old
• have a clear criminal record check
• have reliable transportation
• be available to attend team meetings every other Thursday 8am.

Send resumes to the following email address: tc_1015@hotmail.com

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