autism Helps

Archive for February 2nd, 2010

I am wanting to teach my 2 year old sign language he was diagnosed with Autism last week and he does not speak and I need to communicate with him some how. I need to know of some good sites that will show me the signs and good instructions on how to teach my son this please.

My step son has autism. He hates being out in the sun for long periods of time. His bio-mother signed him up for little league knowing this. My husband is allowing him to do this because of the meds he is on and the problems we deal with from this. Are we wrong? Can anyone tell me answer this?

I was watching the local news about a young boy that an officer found wandering the street in the middle of the night and he had autism and was deaf. I want to know if all law enforcement agencies have a sign language interpreter on staff? I am a sign language interpreter and want to help with my local law enforcement agency. I want to teach all of the officers where I live Sign Language as there are a lot of deaf people who live in my area. I need advice from an officer as to what I should do about this burden I have.

I have a step son who is going to be 6 this year. I've known him since he was 2 years old. Ever since I've known him he has always had separation problems. I know that this is a lot to do with the fact that his Mother was solely responsible for him for the first 2 years of his life, then she suddenly passed away. However I have been considered his Mother since then. I'm all he remembers to be his Mother.
But I've been having problems getting him to feel secure about the most smallest things imaginable. For example, he will still follow his Daddy around the house EVERYWHERE. If I leave out of the room for no more than 2 minutes, he will want to come and see where I am and check on me every 2 minutes. If his Daddy or I am speaking to his older step brother or sister, he will ALWAYS come into the conversation. It's not sometimes, its all the time. And if we go into a room with his brother or sister, he will feel as if he has to be there too.
My husband (his biological Father) doesn't see it as much as a problem, but his son is too old now to be needing to be around us all the time. He constantly wants us to play with him. Of course we interact with him in various ways during the day, but if he isn't playing with one of us, he simply isn't playing. Infact, it would seem he doesn't even know how to play with his toys.
I am pretty sure he has ADHD. We are getting him tested for this very soon. But I am wondering if there is more going on with him. Almost a form of Autism. He never wants to do things children his own age wants to do. Yet he will try his hardest to do teenage/adult things and seem at a loss with 5 year old activities. He breaks his toys soon after they have been bought. And no matter how much I try to teach him (using reward charts, praise etc) to respect his toys, he still gets so frustrated with them not working how he wants them to work, that he'll break them.
Today, he asked me "Can you show me what's inside the back of a toilet?". His intelligence is WAY beyond his age. But he asks things he needn't worry about. I am forever telling him "Let me worry about that kind of thing, you don't have to even be thinking about it". This is what makes me think he has some type of Autism. Another thing is; he has to do certain things routinely. Example: wait by the bath to watch all the water drain out every time he has a bath. Put his socks on almost perfectly, if not he takes them off then starts again. However, unlike Autism, if we tell him to stop it, he will be mad, but he will stop it. Autistic children cannot stop that type of routine.
Has anyone had any similar experience with a child needing to be so close to you all the time? And showing signs of some type of Autism that no other person seems to notice? Or can anyone shed some light on this situation?
My step-son has been described as 'weird' by at least 3 different people now. He does do some strange things. I just don't know what it is.

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