RE: Kids w/ Classic Autism, PDD-NOS & Speech Delays

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I think what I may end up doing is making some DVD's of his favorite youtube videos and buying an el-cheapo portable DVD player. I will wait to get back to the US before buying Ipads and stuff like that. Electronics cost double here and I am not sure if I'd have to deal with a Japanese operating system or have issues with contracts etc.

I wish I could get Benadryl but as I have said before they have a very conservative attitude here towards drugs and medication so that is not available.

I do have some (adult) sleeping pills from home, I might just end up giving him half a pill or something...

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I admit that I went the el-cheapo route with my computer tablet order and mini-android labptop order (see above). I am mainly planning to use them to help entertain my kids on this trip and on other car trips. Just crossing my fingers and hopping this things arrive before we leave for the holidays and they work.

Also, I don't know if I would give a four-year-old half of an adult sleeping pill. I would probably try him on a smaller amount--1/4 of a pill or less some night prior to the trip and see how he does. You can always bring the pills on the plane and give him another tiny piece if he doesn't fall asleep within an hour or so.

Also, when you get to the states, I would, consult a pediatric neurologist or child psychiatrist about his meds and sleep habits.

Ok thanks for the advice.

Regarding the tablets, I will try to find a cheap one but unfortunately electronics cost about double here what they do in the States...

I've actually found the tablet deals to be much better online, even when you pay for shipping. (ahappydeal.com apparently ships internationally, Walmart.com has some cheap tablets, etc.)
Not suggesting that anyone run out and buy a tablet, though, since I don't know a lot about them yet.

http://hello-hello.com/ FREE language learning apps for iPhone, android devices, iPad, etc.

http://blog.friendshipcircle.org/2011/0 ... id-market/ article about special needs apps. See comments beneath article for more apps.

Anyway, I found the special needs apps for Google Android devices, and found out that one of my kids' favorite free educational games websites, Zoodles.com, has a free app for Google Android tablet devices.

More apps for Android devices (tablets and cell phones on the google operating system) can be found at:

Androidzoom.com
Amazon.com
https://market.android.com/search?q=autism&so=1&c=apps (part of Google itself)

Some of the apps at each of the location have to do with speech, autism, or children's education. Many apps are free or quite inexpensive.

Been a long day camped out in the toilet, he has gone wees three times I think on the toilet. Little fellah has a large bladder he seems to go 1.5hrs between wees even though we are pouring water into him!

It's great hearing about the potty successes, I need to really start working on that with mine.

Same here, I have never even touched one...might be a big learning curve for myself!

How long do the batteries usually last?

I think that it depends on the item and what you are doing with it. You can also add more memory to a cheap one.

My husband just got one that I've only looked at a little, and I've looked at them at stores and online. My four-year-old uses a toy tablet all of the time from Scholastic in the car (pre-loaded with ABC and 123 games and old-school black and white graphics).

I don't think that we need an iPad since the kids are verbal and both have cheap, used PCs. The tablets would mainly be for travel, riding in the car, doctor's waiting rooms, etc.

Gameboys and that kind of thing would be even cheaper, but I don't want them hooked on electric toys that don't really have educational value. I have friends who have made that mistake. It's hard to get them to use educational programs if they have access to a lot of car racing programs.

My son has suddenly stopped perservating on numbers. He also stopped running sand through his fingers at the park.

I wonder what is going on?

I also think I figured out the culprit of my son's sleep issues - naps at day care. Yesterday he did not take a nap- he went to sleep at 8:30 and slept through the night!

Has it been going well?

I dunno. We tried hard. I'm tired and dispirited now. I feel like when he went it was because..well he was sitting on the toilet. I'm not even sure he was aware he was going when he went when I was sitting with him.
We had him on the toilet for over three hours this morning till he went, poor little guy, but that's what we've been told to do, kind of.
Anyone else envious of their friends lives?

Me .
If he doesn't cry, it's OK. I went through this with my son also, now he's toilet trained but still some accidents occur.

On Friday, we tried the same methods we used on Wednesday to get my younger son to use the toilet. He holds it on purpose and on Friday, he won.

I gave him three Fleet children's laxatives and three fiber gummies. The therapist had him in the bathroom from 10:00 to 1:45, then I sat with him for a while after she left. After I got him dressed to go pick up my older son from school, he pooped in his pants.

His face turned red a few times in the bathroom and he was passing gas, so I know that he had to go, but he was deliberately holding it.

My older son with more speech and cognitive issues had more trouble just figuring out what to do, I think. My older son was potty trained earlier--at daycare--at just under 4. Several potty training attempts had failed with him until whatever they did at the daycare worked (maybe just copying the other kids and peer pressure).

I don't really envy other parents, but I feel that most of the time, they just cannot relate.

I was hurt when my son with high functioning classic autism was in kindergarten, and he was not asked to be in the playgroup with the other boys who did not attend daycare after school. I also grew apart from a church group that I was in with members who had boys around the same age--they started wanting to take the kids to things that my son couldn't handle, and my son had meltdowns at a couple of play dates.

I'm now actively involved in the local Autism Society, and my kids have a play date this afternoon with a boy with high functioning classic autism. (There are several kids at my son's school with Asperger's or low functioning classic autism, but he is pretty much the only one like himself there.) Another mom, also in the Autism Society, with twins with high functioning classic autism is going to visit later this week. Basically, finding a new peer group has helped with my feelings of being left out of the parents circles at my son's school and my old church.

What friends? I never see any of my friends in person. I'm a little disconcerted though that several girls I grew up with and am friends with on facebook all have boys a little younger than mine that are all starting to show red flags for autism/Asperger's, not as profoundly affected as mine but nothing to be ignored either - none of them are potty trained or talking according to age.

Yeah I know what you mean...I never mention anything related to ASD's on my Facebook page but I have a lot of friends who have similar age kids. I have the feeling that once I am back in the US they'll want to get our kids together...of course I need my son to be around other kids who speak English but I am afraid it will not go well...