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Thanks I think music therapy will help them too and even maybe "calm" their anxieties a bit. I know lots of people who use music to calm down and we are partial to classical music anyhow. I am thankful for all the help and I feel much better about our sons who really can be a handful sometimes! I am sure y'all know that.

In a message dated 10/21/2010 8:01:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, southardengineering@... writes:

Kristie,

I'm no expert on this part. But some people have noted that people with autism either tend to be extremely visual or extremely musical. I'm not sure about your case but that is quite a gift that you have. Mozart and lots of the great composers who had to compose scores of music probably had a talent sim to yours.

That is pretty cool. Music therapy might help your kids. My second child who is NT as far as we know used to (and occassinally still does) sing his words. He would always end his sentences by changing the pitch of his words. It was so cute and charming. I think part of it was that he figured it was a sweet way of talking. Not so much now but lots of people took note. I think music probably does help with speach a lot.

From: kristieannesmama@... <kristieannesmama@...>Subject: Re: ( ) Hi I just joined Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 8:58 AM

Wow...I find this amazing because I have this thing myself where I can hear a piece of music, go to a piano and pick out each of the parts and play them...though not together like a professional would...and I can hear music exactly as it is played even hours or days later. Is this typical?

In a message dated 10/21/2010 8:34:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, southardengineering@... writes:

A lot of kids with Asperger's also have auditory sensory problems. Music therapy through your OT might help with this. May or may not. The guy who started the whole music therapy thing noted that people could not speak what they could not hear. For singers hearing good pitch would improve their singing. Perhaps this could help too.

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Hi LG. I just joined too and haven't done an intro yet, but wanted to let you

know I am in Exeter. I'm excited there's someone so close!

Hi everyone!

Pam

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> My name is LG and I am an almost 40-year-old mother to 3 boys and 2 girls. Our

oldest boy, B. (born 2002) first was diagnosed with Adjustment Disorder, but

that quickly was changed to PDD after much testing and observation. He didn't

talk well until after his 3rd birthday and is probably on the lines of

Asperger's Syndrome or another high-functioning Autism. Our other boy, J. (born

2004) is also a late talker and isn't very clear at all. It takes all my

" hearing " to understand him sometimes. He is also now diagnosed with Adjustment

Disorder, but he doesn't have the same kind of disability as our older boy does.

B. is not social and keeps to himself (he only interacts with very few of his

classmates) and is really smart, especially when it comes to math, whereas J. is

very social, but very...naive and I can see him getting into trouble because of

that when he is older. He loves playing with the other kids, but his speech

problem kind of sets him apart from his classmates and he is also very smart, bu

t has very bad fine-motor control problems that keep him from writing easily. He

also throws tantrums frequently still and gets so frustrated at the smallest

things. We will see where his " diagosis " goes, though I am not too concerned

about the actual wording of either of them. They get speech in school and we are

looking into occupational therapy too. They both have a therapist who comes in

to see each of them once a week.

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> I, myself, was diagnosed with supposed ADHD early in life, but then when I

finally got out on my own and got a computer with half-decent Internet access, I

started exploring Asperger's and I was shocked by what I was reading! THAT was

me all over...the social awkwardness, the inability to make friends and

" connect " with people...all of it! I sent it to my mom back a few years ago, and

she was stunned too. She said that was the diagnosis I never got and she was

100% sure that was me. I still don't make friends easily (I have ONE real-life3

friend) and the only people I associate with daily are my family (husband and

kids) and the people at the elementary school. I cannot " read " people well at

all and I HATE HATE HATE social situations. I avoid them like the plague! I hate

people around me too, and if there are too many people, I have panic attacks.

The boys both get SSI for their disability, and I get Disability payments for

mine. We don't make a lot, but we are happy and our mortgage, unlike many in

this area, is actually currrent!

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> We live in a small city in Pennsylvania (Scranton) and after my mom passed

away in 2008, we were able to buy the house we are living in now. Before this,

we lived in a very small, crappy apartment. I like this house better! My mom was

divorced for years and years, so I have no father (my step-father had been

really abusive so they divorced when I was much younger) and my mom's boyfriend

up and left without a trace after my mom passed away. My grandparents are still

alive (lived next to where my mom lived-about 15 miles from where we live

now-and I grew up, but that house is now sold to another family) and I have an

Aunt and Uncle who live maybe 10 miles away and a cousin who lives in Florida.

We have 2 cats, Stinkie and Ramsay (named after Chef Ramsay), a budgie

(parakeet) named Sunshine, who is now whistling at me, and a pet mouse named

Remy (after Ratatouille) that our eldest daughter takes care of.

>

> Our children are K. (1999), B. (2002), J. (2004), D. (2007), and E. (2010) and

I don't know if we are " done " yet.

>

> Thanks for letting me join. It is much easier to talk through the Internet for

me.

> ~LG

>

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Yeah. That is our kids too...there HAS to be some kind of "backround noise" for them to be able to concentrate. Too much of it, though, and they get distracted and too little of it, they don't want to work and have a hard time.

I hate to keep going to myself but I wonder if any other moms out there find that their kids are terrific mimics. I can (as I wrote before) hear a piece of music and go and play it (not at the savant level, but at least the melodies) and I can also hear a character on TV, mostly cartoons, and I can mimic their voices almost perfectly! Sometimes it takes a couple of times hearing it, but I can do SpongeBob, , and most characters on that show and others like the Mugwai from Gremlins and stuff like that. Do any of you have a child who can do that? My kids think it is hilarious and I am a hit with the 5-15 age bracket now lol. *Sigh* Everyone's gotta have a talent I guess.

In a message dated 10/26/2010 1:07:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Zazoo81198@... writes:

We sort of realized this about a month ago. I have no problem with Maddie listening to music (on headphones, there is only so much Bieber one can take when it's the ONLY song she listens to OVER and OVER and OVER again), but my husband was home one day while she was doing homework and told her no. She couldn't concentrate and it was really hard, but once he realized maybe it was alright, she flew thru her homework with no problem. She normally does homework in her sixth hour homeroom/life skills class.

Mom to my 4 girlsMadeline, Cayla, Arabella, & Vincenza"You are the TRIP I did not takeYou are the PEARLS I cannot buyYou are the blue Italian LAKEYOU are my piece of foreign SKY"---Anne ----

Re: ( ) Hi I just joined Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 8:58 AM

Wow...I find this amazing because I have this thing myself where I can hear a piece of music, go to a piano and pick out each of the parts and play them...though not together like a professional would...and I can hear music exactly as it is played even hours or days later. Is this typical?

In a message dated 10/21/2010 8:34:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, southardengineering@... writes:

A lot of kids with Asperger's also have auditory sensory problems. Music therapy through your OT might help with this. May or may not. The guy who started the whole music therapy thing noted that people could not speak what they could not hear. For singers hearing good pitch would improve their singing. Perhaps this could help too.

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We sort of realized this about a month ago. I have no problem with Maddie listening to music (on headphones, there is only so much Bieber one can take when it's the ONLY song she listens to OVER and OVER and OVER again), but my husband was home one day while she was doing homework and told her no. She couldn't concentrate and it was really hard, but once he realized maybe it was alright, she flew thru her homework with no problem. She normally does homework in her sixth hour homeroom/life skills class.

Mom to my 4 girls

Madeline, Cayla, Arabella, & Vincenza

"You are the TRIP I did not take

You are the PEARLS I cannot buy

You are the blue Italian LAKE

YOU are my piece of foreign SKY"

---Anne ----

Re: ( ) Hi I just joined

Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 8:58 AM

Wow...I find this amazing because I have this thing myself where I can hear a piece of music, go to a piano and pick out each of the parts and play them...though not together like a professional would...and I can hear music exactly as it is played even hours or days later. Is this typical?

In a message dated 10/21/2010 8:34:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, southardengineering@... writes:

A lot of kids with Asperger's also have auditory sensory problems. Music therapy through your OT might help with this. May or may not. The guy who started the whole music therapy thing noted that people could not speak what they could not hear. For singers hearing good pitch would improve their singing. Perhaps this could help too.

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OY...We have an 11 year old and she HATES him lol. The boys (8 and 6) are more into Transformers and SpongeBob (sigh) and our 3 year old LOVES Dora, The Backyardigans, Disney Playhouse cartoons, and Team OomiZoomi. The 5-month-old hangs with Mama and watches COPS and the court shows and even Ghost Hunters (which I actually think is a crock of you-know-what) every day, so he doesn't have a preference yet. Can you guess why I stay upstairs for the mornings? I swear I can sing the theme songs of most of these cartoons by heart lol. Saturdays are nuts here because they are ALL fighting over what they want to watch. Heh. I just stay upstairs, quietly, with the baby and pretend I am single...just kidding! Our kids' quirks are so unique, aren't they?

In a message dated 10/27/2010 10:51:31 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, lmoorhead4@... writes:

LOL! My daughter's obsession is Bieber. If he ever came even close to your town for a concert, if I couldn't get a ticket to take her I think I would have to drink espresso all night so I could stay up to make sure she didn't try to run off and see him! My husband also goes nuts over hearing the same Bieber song over and over but it seems to calm her so I try and just get her to turn it down a bit. One of the things that makes me laugh every day. Gets me through the rough times!> > > > From: _kristieannesmama@..._ (mailto:kristieannesmama@...) > <_kristieannesmama@..._ (mailto:kristieannesmama@...) >> Subject: Re: ( ) Hi I just joined> _ _ > (mailto: ) > Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010, 8:58 AM> > > > > Wow...I find this amazing because I have this thing myself where I can > hear a piece of music, go to a piano and pick out each of the parts and play > them...though not together like a professional would...and I can hear music > exactly as it is played even hours or days later. Is this typical?> > > In a message dated 10/21/2010 8:34:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > _southardengineering@..._ (mailto:southardengineering@...) writes:> > A lot of kids with Asperger's also have auditory sensory problems. Music > therapy through your OT might help with this. May or may not. The guy who > started the whole music therapy thing noted that people could not speak > what they could not hear. For singers hearing good pitch would improve > their singing. Perhaps this could help too.>

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LOL! My daughter's obsession is Bieber. If he ever came even close to

your town for a concert, if I couldn't get a ticket to take her I think I would

have to drink espresso all night so I could stay up to make sure she didn't try

to run off and see him! My husband also goes nuts over hearing the same Bieber

song over and over but it seems to calm her so I try and just get her to turn it

down a bit. One of the things that makes me laugh every day. Gets me through

the rough times!

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> Wow...I find this amazing because I have this thing myself where I can

> hear a piece of music, go to a piano and pick out each of the parts and play

> them...though not together like a professional would...and I can hear music

> exactly as it is played even hours or days later. Is this typical?

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> In a message dated 10/21/2010 8:34:37 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

> _southardengineering@..._ (mailto:southardengineering@...) writes:

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> A lot of kids with Asperger's also have auditory sensory problems. Music

> therapy through your OT might help with this. May or may not. The guy who

> started the whole music therapy thing noted that people could not speak

> what they could not hear. For singers hearing good pitch would improve

> their singing. Perhaps this could help too.

>