Faith in the Family

We are Evangelical Christians... Here is my church website. http://www.ccbellmawr.com/

The Lord has definitely blessed us with our family......and I know he loves my kids even more then we do!

Bal A Vis X/ Brain Gym

Inspired by the 2006 RDI conference in Colorado, and Matt Levy
with balancing on a board, I set out for some sort of program that would
help my kids with sensory integration.

I found this program in BalA VisX. Bal A Vis X, along with

Brain Gym http://www.braingym.org/ - which focuses on whole brain learning has also been beneficial for Jesse and his sensorimotor activities.

Of course I had tons of fun trying it out in the parking lot of the Sheriton Hotel ( and other people surely got a kick out of us too!!)

Smart Moves

homeschooling

before RDI

Our ABA program was made up of me, My sister in law, my girlfriend, and two Moms from the church. This started in March of 2000. I had the school hire them all, and we were all trained in ABA. We tried to do it like the pros, but some of it made no sense. The stuff that made no sense I did not do. My one friend left after a year, and then sortly after that another had to leave because her brother was dieing. This is when The loovas institute asked me if I would be interested in the *professionals* coming in. I was like sure!!!! After three days, me and my remaining team knew what a big mistake this was! It was an awful year, as I demanded therapist after therapist be replaced. My team ( 3) and their team (2) were at odds. Supposedly, we were not doing the therapy correctly, and we were interacting with him way too much! Knowing how irritated I was, They replaced another therapist ( they kept getting worst) with a girl named Chrissy. She tells me that she begged not to go on the case cause I had a rep, LOL. Turns out, Chrissy and I hit it off, and so then I only had one awful therapist to get rid of! Make a long story short, by this time Jes started ABA with all professionals ( what was I thinking!) It was going ok, but me and the consultant were not seeing eye to eye on many things. Jesse was not talking, not progressing, and was just a very unhappy child. There was a shining star on Jesses team among all the duds ( that still remained). SO i decided, if I could talk the school district into hiring them, I could get rid of all the other people. This is making many years into a paragraph, but end result was the school agreed, and the girls got a nice raise and me as their boss.......and they have been with me ever since! I met Chrissy in 2002, and Gina in 2003.

I was so excited, I was in charge of their ABA program.......2 months later,(November 2004) a friend introduced me to RDI. That information turned my world upside down.

RDI

www.rdiconnect.com

Dan and Grace

This is my oldest son Dan ( bottom left in the red shirt) and his core group of friends. The teenage years have just started and we can still laugh together at some of his comments...so I guess that is a good thing. They do grow up fast.

Jesse

This is the Jes Man. He is 6 years old. He was born on 1.01.01...cool eh. His fave thing to do is camp, and to hang out at the fire!

Jesse was Dx with Infantile Autism at 1 years old. I sort of went into the Neurologist office, said Hi, its me again, with another one with Autism. He looked at Jesse for a few minutes and said Yup. That was the first and last time we have been back to the neurologist. Jes also has sensory dysfunction and Apraxia. They are his cooccuring conditions. So that is Jesse's intro...and to follow will be all sorts of paths we have taken to remediate his Autism, and treat his Sensory dysfunction and Apraxia.

Noah

Noah is almost 10 years old. His birthday is March 25th. Noah was the child who seemed to develop normally until about 18 months of age. He said Choo Choo once and then did not talk till he was 3. Noah was DX with PDD-NOS at 2.5 years old. It was 1999, for in March 2000, the school district took over and we started a full fledge 40 hour a week ABA program. More on that in the before RDI section. ANyway, Early intervention told me there was no way he had Autism. Uh, yeah well, lesson number one, people are confused about what Autism is.

Noah is extremely cheerful now that he is homeschooled ( see homeschool blog:)

Noah loves to ride his scooter, swim, eat ( I am VERY concerned about puberty and food bills)
Hike, Camp, and go bowling. He also likes to play X box with his older brother, and he likes to play on the computer.

Noah is alot of fun to be around!