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Social Skills Video Giveaway

Tue, 04/24/2007 - 11:28 — Kathy Harris

AutismOregon.org will be giving away one copy of "Fitting in and Having Fun" VHS video (retail $49) to a randomly picked entry. Different Roads to Learning has some info on the video (this points to the DVD version): http://difflearn.com/prodinfo.asp?number=DRV%20108

Here is how to make an entry:

Only one entry per person is permitted, and you have until 11:59PM PST on Monday, April 30 to get your entries in. Following that, all entries will be numbered. A random number generator will select the winner. The winners will be contacted by e-mail, please ensure that the e-mail address listed in your AutismOregon.org profile is correct. Good luck!

Comments

Tue, 04/24/2007 - 17:37 — beautifulprincesskt

step in the right direction

My son doesn't like me to go to his school (it's HIS domain).....I have been very worried because his class is having a 'tea' for mommies where they 'give manicures"....I am good to go, and bless his teachers, he is 'pumped' to 'paint my toes' on the computer at school (I am still not sure if I am allowed to be there, but this is a step in the right direction...I am somehow involved!!).

P.S.I am still going! His teacher said that it's okay if he melts down, she wants me to be there!

Tue, 04/24/2007 - 16:56 — Kathy Harris

Another Day in Our House

My son and I had a "write off." The Direct Instruction program we use, Reasoning and Writing, has a section in it where the student learns to write what people said. You know, with each different speaker you make a new paragraph. I've been writing for decades (not well). Him? One year.

Picture 2 kids looking at a dinosaur egg. One says, "I feel something moving inside." The other says, "Don't be silly." Suddenly, the egg cracks open and there stands a baby dinosaur. The one kid says, "I told you I felt something moving." You are supposed to fill in what the other kid says.

Here is my entry:

"I told you I felt something moving!" said Ann.

"Huh, I thought it was the vibrator in my cell phone, " said Larry.

The boy writes:

As Ann and Larry hid under the [dinosaur] bones she said, "I told you I felt something moving."

Larry stared at the brontosaur [amazingly] and said, "We have to tell the world about this."

I think I won but the judge gave it to the boy. Huh.