We delivered the first Android4Autism device today to the McKay family.  This was an amazing experience and will be something I will personally never forget.  Kiersten already loves the device and had the most amazing smile when she saw it played movies.  Her parents are both amazing people and very excited to start using it with her. They will be keeping us updated as time goes on.  What a great beginning :-) - 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 :)

Emmett had great time today. Everything worked out well and he's looking forward to going back. He's only there for about 2 hours but I think for him, it's 2 hours well spent. The other boys don't start back until September 6, 2011. We are getting closer and closer to actually have 2 hours a day of down time :-) Great job Emmett, we are so very proud of you.

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…