Starting a school binder

Living with Autism is tricky because the first several years you completey rely on a group of people you have never met before to help you decide what is best for your child. You trust them to help you decide how to handle the melt downs and how to handle the downs as well and the ups. 

When you first meet your team you don't even have an official diagnosis. 

I was lucky that I love to research, I am not even lying I really love to research things. 

Now I am testing the boundaries yet again. I refuse to let my son's disabilities define him. I want him to expand beyond what our society believes to be normal for a kid with autism. 

He has been stealing Yasser's school work and doing it on his own but his social skills are no where near where they should be.

To help keep things in order we have been working on binders and schedules. I started out by searching for cute prompts the create cards to help label everything. We have things for daily chores, brushing our teeth, etc. 

After I colored everything and cut it all out I then made a blue background and cut it all out. I have learned that if I make things his favorite color then he will pay attention and give it a try. 

I also learned to laminate things because sometimes they find there way into water when he does not like something. We bought  Purple Cows Hot and Cold Laminator, Includes 100 3 mil Hot Pockets, Assorted Sizes (3016c) It is also 100% amazing to own. We use it for school and some of our daily lives things. I will be added more pictures as I continue to sort and organize things. But right now our binder is my favorite and I look forward to seeing what happens as we add school. The binder is divided up into different sections. The first has a weekly outline, the second has daily sections which allows us to break up things by the hour and the third has calendars for the entire year. We also have an entire section of school work for when he gets bored and goes for something else to do. 

He will excel despite what the statistics show. 

Gill-G's travel case

Gill- G has high functioning Autism. We never had an issue accepting it because it helps define who he is. We do not feel sorry for ourselves and we do not regret anything. I love him dearly and accepted it long before we knew he was Autistic. Gill-G was going on  27 months before we started testing and it would be another 3 or 4 months with speech therapy before he would even start talking. He would occasionally have melt downs and bite himself until he bleed.  There is a never ending curve of learning because he is learning and developing too.
Just because you know one kid with Autism does not mean you know Autism because Autism has many faces and no two are a like.

But this article is not about living with Autism, it is about living with allergies. Autism just plays a minor part because it affects the way he thinks. 

We have a special baggie in my purse to carry things for Gill-G. 

Inside we have some important thing in case of emergency for when we go out with Gill-G.

This case is easy enough you can get into it but difficult enough that it should slow the children down. 

One side contains an all natural sunscreen because he burns easily and a lotion balm I found on Avon.  The lotion balm is great for the extreme itchy days and we can't get to the lotion or coconut oil and it does not make a huge mess. Normally we also have a small supply of band aids but someone has not replaced it.

The other side contains epi pens and a letter. I also plan on adding Children's Benadryl Liquid Allergy Relief - NEW Larger Size (8 Fl Oz X 2) We had some in there but with allergy season we grabbed it and forgot to refill it. The letter was written for us by our developmental Doctor. This give us the protection if someone hears Gill-G screaming" stop hitting me or you are hurting me" and calls the cops. You would be surprised at the things that can happen.