Jan i hope you don't mind me quoting your comment from yesterday here..."Ilove these text books they are the ones the experts work from arent they ? lol" ...See you hit the nail on the head there and that's the scary thing...I think it is not good practise to use only one textbook when it comes to issues like autism and other child developmental disorders...These students are people who could be going on to become clinical, educational or some other specific type of psychologist...If they go by the book then it will be detrimental to a lot of children and their families...Oh i forgot to say yesterday that one of the questions asked in this textbook is 'What causes autism'...They're asking this of students!!!!...If the author of this book knows what causes autism then why haven't all the vast amount of families on the planet affected, the professionals, teachers, etc etc etc been told!!!!...No-one knows for sure what causes it...There are lots of different theories from genetic causes, enviromental causes, or it just happening...I'd also really like to know where exactly the person who wrote this book took their statistics from...As one of the things in it is '75% of autistics don't go on to develop language'...How old and how long a period were they studied for i'd like to know...Reason being i know some who didn't start having language until they were older...G was non verbal until he was 5, a friends son was non verbal until he was 12...One famous autistic was non verbal until he was in his 20s...In my own personal experience it's a lot lot less than 75% that remain non verbal...Okies am ranting again sorry LOL...I can't help it and i probs shouldn't apologise...One of my cousins has just texted me to ask me to email her everything about G from he was little right through primary school...EEKS...I'll have to find the emails i posted myself from my private blog that i had to delete...She's studying to become a classroom assitant just now and they have been covering autism/aspergers in particular so she wants to use us a case study...I don't mind but it's just getting my head round trying to remember everything as i didn't write it down at the time...It's all in my head...She can't use M as he went to SEN school and it's for mainstream...Well at least i think it is specifically mainstream i'll phone her later and ask
K im'd me on MSN later last night...She always catches me when am in pub quiz room grrrr...She was at her b/f's and i asked why as he has exams this week so she was banned LOL...She'd just got back from A&E again :o( ...She'd fallen and hurt her right ankle this time...So she's back on crutches again...She's not sure how she fell and if it was just something normal like we can all have or if she had a turn...Forgot to ask her if she was going to phone and let the neurologist know...Hunny if you read this before i speak to you then please tell him if you haven't already...It could get you a quicker appointment...Still no word back from loan people and i was told i would get the bank statement, and benefit award letters back quickly once they had got them...Or maybe they are going to send them back with everything else...If i ain't heard anything by middle of next week i'll phone the bloke dealing with it.
My niece had her graduation from uni today :o) ...Told mum last night don't any of you come near here as the flat is in uproar and there's nowhere to get a seat LOL...Well there's enuff for me and the boys just but not for anyone else as stuff everywhere whilst i get the decorating finished...Hoping it's all done by end of sunday...M was happy enuff to go to school today :o) ...I was dreading this morning as he wasn't getting to go on the morning out to local amusement park...None of the pupils who're at college or him and the other lad who are at the mainstream classes at mainstream high school were getting to skive off...But he did accept that fine after he was spoken to again last fri...He decided that the crowd would be too much for him LOL...He's not even come home in a bad mood either which is fine for me...As the dep head for senior dept said to them it's all part of growing up and you can't always get to things you'd like to go to...Another couple of christmas game links...Am rubbish at both of these ones LOL
Funschool - Fun Blaster - Evil Elves
Funschool - Christmas - Evil Elves 2
Toodle pip tc
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Dont forget the experts who tell us all about the elderly use text books too ,the thing is the elderly I cared for never complied with what a text book expected of them ,and quite right too! they were all individuals bless em and I treated them accordingly So sorry Kerry is once more on crutches ..love Jan xx
Sorry to hear about K.
Sorry too you've had nothing from the loan people.
Sorry about K but glad M was fine with everything. I'm a little surprised there's only one book being used, I see students with armfuls in the library, their rucksacks bulge but I don't really ask them if they're all for one subject. Said it before, but you should write one based on real experience. Rache
It's an introductory textbook, only covers the basics since we don't need the huge amount of detail at this point. That's why I found it so ridiculous it asks you to say what causes autism... it's an INTRODUCTORY book! We do it in more detail in second year as I imagine it will be part of "Psychology of Child Development"... Another thing it says is it may progress into adulthood... I was under the impression autism was lifelong?
The doctor from A&E is writing to the GP to tell them to re-refer me cos that should speed it up. Got a letter saying 6 weeks before the appointment they'll write again.
Oh poor K... hope her ankle gets better soon!!!
Sara x
Oh no poor K - hope she comes off the crutches soon!! Well done to your neice and I hope the decorating is going well ;-)
Jen x
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