I have spent the last two weeks desperately searching for new and exciting things for the kiddos too delve into this homeschooling year, but to my dismay I have come up with nothing!!! I wonder sometimes if what I am doing is the right thing. There are days I feel so inadequate I could just crawl in a hole and not come out. I make this thing so much more difficult than it has to be.
Today has been absolutely insane, I spent the first two hours of our morning trying to explain to my 12 yr old why his youngest sister, who is autistic, gets a little more attention than the rest. Which lately, has turned out to be an everyday event. Then he and his older brother who is 14, got into an altercation over a stupid video game, and on top of that my home is in complete disarray. So, since about nine o'clock a.m. I have been mom, cook, counselor, spiritual leader, referee, and housekeeper. The Lord only knows what the rest of the day holds, so from here on out I'm depending on Him to see me through.
A new experimental drug is currently being tested that might offer relief for the symptoms of autism.
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The drug, STX209 (arbaclofen), is being tested on 150 patients diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders between ages 5 and 21 at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Institute for Juvenile Research.