Link Day

Longtime readers know that I never use a blog post just to link to other sites. Other blogs do that, but I’ve been updating this blog (usually) weekly for six years and haven’t done that…until now. I mean, if this virus can disrupt everything else, why not this blog?

Just thought you might want to know what we’re reading that’s about autism and the coronavirus. Is it hard to be in a house 24/7 with Dar? Sure. And maybe reading some of this makes it a just a tiny bit easier:

Autism Speaks

https://www.autismspeaks.org/covid-19-information-and-resources

Kids health

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/coronavirus-autism.html

Healthline

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-covid19-is-affecting-daily-life-for-people-with-autism

Timothy Shriver, Special Olympics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/13/isolation-isnt-new-those-with-intellectual-disabilities-covid-19-still-poses-threat/

Johns Hopkins

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/5-coronavirus-coping-tips-for-parents-of-children-on-the-autism-spectrum

Also, these two doctors

https://www.spectrumnews.org/opinion/viewpoint/coronavirus-tool-kit-may-aid-families-with-autistic-children-during-lockdown/

created these 30 different modules for parents of kids on the spectrum:

https://www.debrechildpsychiatry.org/toolbox

Meanwhile, Dar’s teacher has been sending me videos for Dar to watch. I do try to get him to watch these, but uhhhh, it doesn’t always go that well. Anyway, since this blog is about Dar, here’s his curriculum, such as it is:

Cinco de Mayo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O20HgEL0t8I

More Cinco de Mayo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAOG795Yrm8

Birds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF0Id-hH9y4

More Birds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vL_2rF8JHU

Flowers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn5ghusEN-s

More Flowers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avrbtt7izP4