The following is a guest post by Jeff Stimpson. I'm very excited that Jeff his sharing this post here on Lost and Tired.  Jeff Stimpson is a native of Bangor, Maine, and lives in New York with his wife Jill and two sons. He is the author of Alex: The Fathering of a Preemie and Alex the Boy: Episodes From a Family’s Life With Autism (both available on Amazon). He maintains a blog about his family at jeffslife.tripod.com/alextheboy, and is a frequent contributor to various sites and publications on special-needs parenting, such as Autism-Asperger’s Digest, Autism Spectrum News, Fatherville.com, and The Autism Society news blog.   The High Cost of Bolting My son Alex (13, PDD-NOS) wasn’t supposed to come home on the school bus at 4:30 on Friday afternoon. He…

Emmett is off to his very first day of preschool.  He was so excited about going to school that he was up at 5am this morning ready to go. The teachers and staff seem really cool and that makes us feel loads better about him being in Canton City Schools.  So today is the first day (hopefully) of good things to come,  for Mr.  Emmett John...... - Lost and Tired Post by Wordpress for Android via Tegra 2 powered Motorola Photon 4G without the use of proper editing tools and disadvantages of a bastardized version of auto-correct. Please Vote for Lost and Tired (just click the link) and help me spread Autism Awareness. Everyone can Vote once a day :)

Gavin has started on Flovent HFA today.  He uses this inhaler twice a day along with the spacer to help prevent asthma related problems.  He does pretty good with this but struggles a bit with the timing aspect of it.  However,  we will just keep plugging away and I'm confident he will get this down in no time at all. - Lost and Tired Post by Wordpress for Android via Tegra 2 powered Motorola Photon 4G without the use of proper editing tools and disadvantages of a bastardized version of auto-correct. Please Vote for Lost and Tired (just click the link) and help me spread Autism Awareness. Everyone can Vote once a day :)

This post contains a list of all the current supporters of Android4Autism. I plan on building a more elaborate page but this will do for now.   I would like to thank the following organizations for their support: Intellijoy:   the #1 creator of educational apps on the Android Market. Intellijoy has very generously donated full versions of ALL the educational Android apps.     Stuart Duncan: Autism Father.  Stuart has graciously provided the hosting for both Android4Autism and Lost and Tired. He is a pillar in the Autism community and not only a good friend but a source of inspiration.     Bonsai:The Art of Growing Android:   The Bonsai Android development team provided the kernel, root and recovery for the ROM used in this device. They will also be assisting in development…

The activity highlighted in this video is the weighted ball. This my very favorite Occupational Therapy activity, at least from my perspective. Emmett really seems to enjoy both throwing and catching the ball. It provides great feedback to Emmett as well as strengthening his upper body. I would think that he would also increase his coordination as well. Basically, Emmett throws a weighted ball at a trampoline and catches it as it bounces back. The ball he is using in this video weighs about 2 lbs. I believe the other balls weigh in at about 4 and 6 lbs. As Emmett gets bigger and stronger he will move up to the medium sized ball and then to the large ball. We actually have the same trampoline at home, although we…

Emmett just started with his new Occupational Therapist the other day. His schedule changed because of school and his original OT will be on maturity leave so we have moved to a new therapist. What I want to show you here is what is being done to help prepare Emmett's body for all the exercises. When Emmett first arrives at the facility, he selects the activities he wants to do today and sticks the little pictures to his board (seen in the video at the bottom right of the screen). Once the activities are selected, the therapist begins to prepare Emmett's body by brushing his skin and manipulating his joints.   This helps to wake up Emmett's arms and legs so he is better equipped to participate in the OT activities. I know it looks…

The appointment went well.  We found out that Gavin's vitamin D is very low and so we are addressing that.  Gavin is also starting on his new twice a day inhaler.  They attempted to do the pulmonary testing but Gavin wasn't able to follow the directions (despite trying very hard) and so they gave up for today.  We didn't have any scratch testing today which was quite a relief.  We decided to keep the infusions at Akron Children's Hospital instead of doing them at home.  He will actually miss his first day of school because it coincides with his next infusion. As far as the tremors go,  they believed to be neurological in nature and not a side effect related to the infusion. We also got more test results back…