As a pro­po­nent of learn­ing nat­u­ral­ly at home, at least for lit­tle ones, and for my own chil­dren find­ing that they learned bet­ter when ‘unschool­ing’ (a very nat­ur­al form of learn­ing), I was aston­ished to read recent­ly that researchers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Haifa in Israel  have ‘discovered’ that chil­dren with autism learn bet­ter in […]

All right, I know there are many peo­ple my age and old­er who are com­pe­tent on the com­put­er, and some much younger and less com­pe­tent, but com­pe­tence escapes me at times! The cries of “it’s log­i­cal” and “it’s com­mon sense” just tend to frus­trate me when lis­ten­ing to my 20 and 30-some­thing sons who are high […]

A child wasn’t talk­ing by the time he was 3 or 4 years old? Once he was ‘diag­nosed’ and got inter­ven­tion he start­ed talk­ing and had gained flu­en­cy by the time he was 5. He still has no imag­i­na­tive play or sense of humour.  At age 5, on hol­i­day with his par­ents in his grand­par­ents’ house, he […]