Thoughts

Lately I have really felt the burning urge to become even more involved with the Autism Community. I realize that certain organizations like Autism Speaks have done wonders for the cause. First thing I have done is started a team for this years walk now for autism event. If anyone is in the St. Louis area and wants to join our team or if they want to donate I am trying to raise a modest 1000 dollars for the cause http://walknowforautism.org/stlouis/christopherhamp .


So a little bit more about my son and I. My son and I became a 2 man family last year in February. I noticed that he wasn't quite on track with where he should be vocally with only speaking about 10 words. I took him to the pediatrician. And soon after that visit we started the evaluation process. The evaluation process lasted from roughly April until August at which time he was diagnosed by Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital as being Autistic. We started Therapy in April after his first evaluation and have moved from therapy in the home to therapy at school. Chris turned 3 last month and is now a big boy and going to the local elementary school which has Autism based classroom.

Chris turns 3 woohoo.

Current things we are working on are potty training and head banging. He has peed on the potty twice now! Unfortunately he also broke daddy's nose by banging his head though. We are working on the 2nd one extra hard though. We have contacted the behavioral therapist so we can begin to start working to figure out how to help him with that. I'm thinking he may just need pressure release and I have never been taught or shown by any of his therapist on how to do this. Most of his therapy was done at daycare during the day while I was working previous to him going to work. So this is one of those things that I need to work on not just him.

Well that is pretty well the Skinny on the two of us. Until next time!