From the monthly archives:

August 2007

Risperdal – The Drug of Choice for Aggression in Spectrum Children?

August 21, 2007

My son, who will be six years old tomorrow, has started having very aggressive meltdowns.  These are different than previous meltdowns as there is an obvious level of rage involved.  I’ve previously posted about two of his recent tantrums (Tantrums Take Two and Tantrums – Again?).  Thoseseemed to be a trigger for even more.  If he [...]

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Tantrums – Again?

August 10, 2007

Perhaps I should use the word meltdown instead of tantrum – however you say it, it is still the same thing.  Wednesday was my son’s first day of school and thankfully he had a good day at school.  Unfortunately that didn’t transfer over to his swim lessons that started about 45 minutes after school let [...]

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I Have A First Grader!

August 8, 2007

Today was my son’s first day of first grade.  Now I know that he ‘officially’ became a first-grader after his last day of Kindergarten but this made it more real for him.  We got to the school nice and early so we could find a parking spot and then the whole family went in.  The [...]

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Tantrums Take Two

August 5, 2007

I have previously discussed tantrums – if you’d like to read up on my post check it out here:  The Dreaded Autism Tantrum.  Today I am going to revisit that topic but the subject is my son, not my daughter.  My son will be six in a few weeks and has comorbid diagnoses of ADHD [...]

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