Comments on: Theater, religion, and Autism http://EBDBlog.com/2007/12/theater-religion-autism/ News, commentary, resources, and more about Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:20:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JohnL http://EBDBlog.com/2007/12/theater-religion-autism/comment-page-1/#comment-47366 JohnL Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:08:05 +0000 http://EBDBlog.com/2007/12/23/theater-religion-autism/#comment-47366 Julie, thanks for your comment. I'm glad to hear that your children are benefitting from their activities. I agree that the volunteer nature of the program is encouraging. I'm glad that people have the heart to give to kids with disabilities and their families. As I noted in the post, I also think it's great to have kids--with or without Autism--engaged in activities across the community. There's nothing inherently wrong with theater or equestrian activities. I get concerned when they are justified on the basis of inadequate evidence. I can support doing them just because they're fun, healthy, normal (whatever that is--teehee). I'm sorry about the problems you've had with the comment box. Please write to me back channel (John .at. JohnWillsLloyd .dot. com) so I can get info about the problems that will help me to modify the scripts. Julie, thanks for your comment. I’m glad to hear that your children are benefitting from their activities.

I agree that the volunteer nature of the program is encouraging. I’m glad that people have the heart to give to kids with disabilities and their families. As I noted in the post, I also think it’s great to have kids–with or without Autism–engaged in activities across the community. There’s nothing inherently wrong with theater or equestrian activities. I get concerned when they are justified on the basis of inadequate evidence. I can support doing them just because they’re fun, healthy, normal (whatever that is–teehee).

I’m sorry about the problems you’ve had with the comment box. Please write to me back channel (John .at. JohnWillsLloyd .dot. com) so I can get info about the problems that will help me to modify the scripts.

]]> By: julie lorenzen http://EBDBlog.com/2007/12/theater-religion-autism/comment-page-1/#comment-47349 julie lorenzen Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:38:30 +0000 http://EBDBlog.com/2007/12/23/theater-religion-autism/#comment-47349 My son with high functioning autism participated in a free art and music camp last summer. The results were amazing. Kids who never made friends before suddenlyad two or three friends by the end. My nine year old has a couple of teens to look up to which is nice because he is in denial about his autism.Without grant funding, the two week day camp would have cost us $1,500. The sad thing is only fifteen spots were available and about fifteen more wanted to be included. I think the professor overseeing the AI certification program and a portion of the camp is doing some research, and it looks like the results will be positive. I appreciate your concern about parents prefering this type of therapy over other therapies, but where I'm from there isn't any ABA therapy and just one part-time DAN Doctor. We do have a speech camp at the local university and some of our campers particpated in just that. The word that jumped out to me in the story was "volunteer." I wonder if the program was free. If so that is a great thing as therapies can cost so much. Even the floor time theray in question can cost $300 a month or so and one from my city has to travel 50 minutes to another city to participate. That is why I opt for lower cost summer camps and horse riding therapy. I've learned that the more activities I get my son into, the more he improves. Being active isn't a cure, but it helps. Sorry if there are a lot of typos. I can't see some of what I'm typing. The comment box flows behind your sidebar. My son with high functioning autism participated in a free art and music
camp last summer. The results were amazing. Kids who never made friends before suddenlyad two or three friends by the end. My nine year old has a couple of teens to look up to which is nice because he is in denial about his autism.Without grant funding, the two week day camp would have cost us $1,500. The sad thing is only fifteen spots were available and about fifteen more wanted to be included. I think the professor overseeing the AI certification program and a portion of the camp is doing some research, and it looks like the results will be positive. I appreciate your concern about parents prefering this type of therapy over other therapies, but where I’m from there isn’t any ABA therapy and just one part-time DAN Doctor. We do have a speech camp at the local university and some of our campers particpated in just that. The word that jumped out to me in the story was “volunteer.” I wonder if the program was free. If so that is a great thing as therapies can cost so much. Even the floor time theray in question can cost $300 a month or so and one from my city has to travel 50 minutes to another city to participate. That is why I opt for lower cost summer camps and horse riding therapy. I’ve learned that the more activities I get my son into, the more he improves. Being active isn’t a cure, but it helps. Sorry if there are a lot of typos. I can’t see some of what I’m typing. The comment box flows behind your sidebar.

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