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Jake is starting School
It's the first day of school tomorrow for Jake. We're excited but also very apprehensive about him going. He can't really communicate with us so we don't know if understands or appreciates the change that is about to take place. He'll be going for ju...
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Answering the phone
When I started this blog about Jake I thought that it would be a good exercise to record the days that we have with Jake so that I could try and give some idea of what it can be like to have an autistic child. That sounds terrible. It sounds like I c...
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Radio Presenter Ken Bruce writes about his autistic son
There's an excellent article that was on the Mail Online website (A british newspaper) by a radio presenter who would certainly be well known to the UK population. He has a seven year old autistic son and so many of the things that he describes are t...
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A buggy for our autistic son
Ooops, I've let this blog slip a little recently. Actually a lot since it's a month since I last posted anything about Jake.Jake is fine along with the rest of us although the last few weeks have been typical of the kind of days (and nights!) that we...
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A nice sunny day
Today was a nice sunny day and we've not had too many of those recently. Although we are well into July we've had too much rain and not enough bright sunny days like today.So there was no daycare for Jake today and therefore no rush to get him out of...
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Jake practising with a spoon
The last few days since I posted have been quite good with Jake. After having gone through a period of where he seems to have been permanently unhappy he has moved on to a more contented stage.His latest thing is to loiter in the kitchen and harass N...
