Ru’s Autism Tips: Potty Training: Will it Ever Happen?
Ok first the good news. Yes, it will happen. Now the less so immediately good (but not bad) news: it takes a while.
Ok first the good news. Yes, it will happen. Now the less so immediately good (but not bad) news: it takes a while.
It’s a strange thing that our species is called homo sapiens sapiens.
If sapiens means thinking, and sapiens sapiens therefore means “really fricking thinking”, why does this define us as a species?
All animals have brains, so thought is not specific to we super monkeys. There seem to be a lot of other species that think as much if not more effectively than we do – because our thoughts are often our own worst enemies.
So, what is it that really sets we humans apart?
It’s the voice box, the larynx. It’s speech. We are the speaking ape.
When we first stumbled into Rowan’s love of my neighbor's mare Betsy, which led to him becoming verbal in the saddle, and which in turn led to us realizing that it was the rhythmic hip rocking causing him to produce oxytocin that was creating the speech, which led to Horse Boy Method and Movement Method…we were also working with a whole bunch of small animals, not just horses.
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When I first got the diagnosis all the language on autism i got from the professionals was negative: 'dysfunction, disease, disorder etc.' As a trained journalist I found myself asking - what's the other side of the story here? It cant be all negative surely.
So we know that nature and freedom of movement are key when working with neurological difference as most of these excellent people can be shut down by man made industrial sensory triggers and are kinetic learners.We also need a 'yes' environment to encourage communication.
Week 2:
By the second week Scub said “ Let’s go get Ma!”
He walked over to her field, walked her over to the tack room and took her riding arena.