Guest guest Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 You know Donna, I wonder if this could work for children (my 8 yr old NT daughter) who drive us nuts with diddling around instead of getting things they were asked to do done.... What a great idea, thanks for sharing!!! Carolyn From: Donna Swearingen <theswears@...> Sent: Mon, January 31, 2011 6:59:37 AMSubject: ( ) Timer.. Getting ready for school has always been exhausting for me dealing with my 9 year old Aspi! Got a $6.00 timer and he is ready and smiling in record time! He made a game of it and too I don't think he wanted to hear the noise it made when it goes off! Yes! Something worked!;)Sent from my iPhone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 My son is 10.5 Aspie, and loves using the timer on his cell phone. He's got alarms that wake him up, that remind him to not get sidetracked and make sure he's working on his homework, stuff like that. He also takes pictures on his phone of stuff the teacher writes on the board, rather than trying to copy everything down in his illegible handwriting. I've been resistant to having Isaac's official AS diagnosis entered into his school records, but I'm wondering if there actually would be advantages. My fear is that it's kinda like a tattoo, easy to get, hard to remove. I guess I'm afraid that the school will treat him as either retarded or incapable of controlling himself. I also don't WANT the school to take it easy on him, since he is extremely intelligent and needs to be challenged, not coddled. If that makes sense. I have told his teacher off the record, but she was really wanting to get the diagnosis documented. She started talking about "if he gets hurt" or "if he hurts someone else". I may be in denial, but I really don't think that's an issue! He does NOT have fits, doesn't attack other kids, anything like that. The only way I see that he would get hurt as the result of his AS is from his toe walking which makes him prone to tripping and stubbing his toes. That's being dealt with separately. Right now he has casts on both legs working on lengthening the heel cords. He should be done with casts by the end of March, followed by braces for about a year. That's through an orthopedist (of course) and the ortho documentation is already in his record as a Physical Education excuse. So what's the point of adding the AS diagnosis? His teacher did let him use some sort of a keyboard thingy (I need to find out more about it) for a test since his handwriting is so bad, and he does almost all his homework on computer at home. So where's the benefit of the diagnosis on his school records? That's where we're at right now. Eleanor, San , CA son Isaac, 10.5 year old Aspie On 01/31/2011 08:54 , Carolyn Weisbard wrote:  You know Donna, I wonder if this could work for children (my 8 yr old NT daughter) who drive us nuts with diddling around instead of getting things they were asked to do done.... What a great idea, thanks for sharing!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 It was the social thing with us... He did freak out a couple of times too. So, this gave them an understanding anyway. The staff just thought he was disrespectful and rude until ds... Sent from my iPhone On Jan 31, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Eleanor Oster <pearl@...> wrote: > Aspie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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