Our experiments with Autism - A never ending journey

  Parallax (Akshat's viewpoint) I know what I want to pick out of all the odd things arranged in front of me... and in front of you. You can see it too as clear as if it shouts out its name "Here I am, just pick me up!" 'Go for it,' you encourage so I pick it up, only except it's not the same thing and it's not even what I intended to pick On your turn though the pointer shifts back to correct place and you pick the very thing As if we are looking at the same set of things from a different space each. By, Anagha Jawlekar 1.     VISUAL PERCEPTION  When I found out that visual perception could improve Akshat's typing skills, I worked on it thoroughly for 4-5 months. I used picture cards, blocks, tangram puzzles, odd-one-out puzzles with pictures and alphabets, etc., to do different activities. Initially, I did simple ones to engage him and gradually increased the complexity. Nowadays, ample resources are available on the internet for visual perception an

  Out of sight (Parent Viewpoint) Found our way n number of times, no matter what, so far, we have How, then, could we be lost this time? I ask myself, as it doesn't make sense it can't be a dead end -no! Perhaps, there's  a path through it, in disguise Shouldn't I retrace our steps once? Or get a better view like from a bird's eye Indeed sometimes one wise step back, does but two steps forwards imply. By, Anagha Jawalekar Hello readers, I hope you had a great time reading the guest post by Ms. Archita Basu.  So, resuming our journey again and sharing  how I worked on Akshat’s typing skills. As I mentioned in the last post, we started facing limitations in the LetMeTalk app, as there was no way to form sentences in that. Therefore, I decided to work on Akshat’s typing once again in May 2018 (I had tried it earlier also around 2013 but left it because he did not pick up at all and I did not know how to work). As he could read and identify words on cards easily, I