Guest guest Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 I haven't posted in a long time, so I guess I'm " new " . We live in University Heights. My name is Gail and my husband's name is Jim. Diane(17) and (6) are biological children, both autistic. Edwin(5) is adopted from Guatemala and is thankfully NT! Diane is mildly autistic, 17 years old. She goes to CEVEC (vocational program) part-time and attends high school the rest of the time. She is very verbal, but has problems with social interactions, eye contact. In some ways she is a typical teen and has lots of CDs of her favorite artists Beyonce and Aguilera. is moderately autistic/hyperlexic. He taught himself to read at age 3. is in a special needs kindergarten, and is mainstreamed with an aide for math, language, art. He does pretty well with that. Diane and particpate in Special Olympics roller skating. Diane participates in ice skating as well. Edwin is our NT child, entering kindergarten in Sept 2004. Hard to believe. Edwin is like a junior therapist for the older kids. Always asking them questions, getting them to respond, encouraging them to play games as well. Kind of neat to watch. Anyway, I look forward to participating again here instead of lurking so much. I would also love to get together in person with families in this group. Gail _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with the new version of MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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