by Dancing Wombat | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog, Learning Through Performance, Life Skills, Sensory Issues, Socialisation
Shopping at the supermarket is a pretty basic life skill, which many kids pick up automatically, from immersion and casual observation. Other children benefit from more deliberate modelling. However, some – like Dancing Wombat – need frequent, purposeful and...
by Dancing Wombat | Oct 25, 2016 | Family and Community, Life Skills, Wombat Recommends
If you want a helpful resource for the Aspie tween or teen in your life, I can recommend The Asperkid’s SECRET Book of Social Rules – The Handbook of Not-So-Obvious Social Guidelines for Tweens and Teens with Asperger Syndrome. It’s a great book for parents and...
by Dancing Wombat | Oct 5, 2016 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Coping Strategies, Life Skills, Sensory Issues
Dancing Wombat’s travel training continues. I suspect it will for many years. But this time, I wanted to start testing out train routes.Taking public transport out to Grandma Wombat involves taking a tram down the road and then a train. So when Dancing Wombat asked me...
by Dancing Wombat | Sep 24, 2016 | Blog, Life Skills, Sensory Issues
The Royal Melbourne Show is a sensory feast – or a sensory assault, depending on your perspective. If someone asks, just before the September school holidays begin, “Are you going to the Show?” we all know exactly which show. Like all agricultural shows, it began as a...
by Dancing Wombat | Sep 10, 2016 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Coping Strategies, Life Skills
People with ASD often have high levels of anxiety. Australia’s Tony Attwood, an expert on autism, explains why: “When one considers the inevitable difficulties people with Asperger’s syndrome have with regard to social reasoning, empathy, conversation skills, a...
by Dancing Wombat | Sep 5, 2016 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Health and Fitness, Life Skills
Dancing Wombat takes tablets three times a day, to manage an adrenal condition she has. Known as Addison’s Disease (only it’s not really a disease, as she’ll never get better), her adrenaline gland stopped working several years ago. Her tablets replace the hormones...
