Our experiments with Autism - A never ending journey

  Don't you worry, I am there (continued...) Come, let's take the route those runners passed the meadows the valleys the waterfalls But taking our time to absorb it all  Not like a check-box for each milestone I know you best and want you to know Our team will make it work somehow... By, Anagha Jawalekar It won't be wrong to say that our real story began in 2014 when Akshat left the school. I had finished my M.A. in the first division, and it was such a good feeling. Now, I had a big question in front of me, how to proceed with Akshat?  AFA's training helped to sort out the problem, and as per the learnings and my experiences till now with Akshat, I decided to focus on his ADLs and life skills. Academics was not on my priority list as it was tough for both of us to handle the pressure.  I prepared a schedule for him and started following that schedule. To made him follow that schedule, I had to be with him, and for that, I used to finish my home chores before starting h

  Don't you worry, I am there If you are not comfortable with that mad race Let us have one with a suitable pace If even that you don't prefer let's have one tailored just for us Enough we waited for them to understand Now done with it Just give me your hand By, Anagha Jawalekar Delhi's training was quite exhaustive. Both mentally and physically. Thanks to my husband, he planned a holiday to Simla and Manali direct from Delhi, and we had a great time. After ten days or so, we returned to Vadodara, and the very next day, I received a letter from CMC Vellore. It was written in the letter that a seat is allocated to me for the next mother-child training program.  CMC is a charitable hospital in Vellore(Tamilnadu), and thousands of people across India come there for treatment, especially for chronic illnesses. We had been to CMC, Vellore twice and got Akshat's thorough checkup done there. On our visit there, we had applied for the mother-child training held there. But m

Challenges of Adolescence Are they still there? Each day I ask the morning mirror, my freckles... They first appeared at the age of two I'm told, and never left me. I'm more conscious of them now Anxiety of people is a part of me... just like the freckles as I have grown fifteen years and three. There's a conflict inside my mood swings, until I take up tasks that I enjoy doing... Guess that's the road  ahead for me to try different roles and find my true identity. By, Anagha Jawalekar So until now,  I got used to the challenges and difficulties thrown by Autism. I was so engrossed working with Akshat, and Autism was not allowing me to think or do anything else. I was striving to follow whatever I had learned in Mumbai training, but it was not easy to maintain the routine and motivation. It was going on and off. Meanwhile, hardly anything was happening with Akshat in the school (a special school for Autism). Just then, we met other parents, and they told us about Action