Breast feeding does help with nutrients and the support of brain growth, which is something every mother should think about. The benefits for the nursing mom are just as good as they are for the baby. The hormones that are released during breast feedin…

Autistic Girl Wanders Off; Sarpy Plan Program For Tracking

http://www.ketv.com/newsarchive/16656738/detail.html

She was found after three hours.

somehow I’m not surprised with the language and the presumptions about individuals registering with Project Lifesaver. in Charlie’s case, if he were lost (though he’s not a “runner”), he might not be able to speak his name clearly enough (and he might be too upset at having strangers asking him so many questions to respond to questions).

I know one of the autism professionals who consults with our school district has worked on having autistic kids have cell phones for emergencies and otherwise. It’s not only for them to call when they are lost (not that my son would know he was lost!), but there’s also some kind of tracking function that you can get on some phones (I think), that enables another person to track where a person is via a computer program.

Thanks again—–will keep pulling for best-case scenarios!

So we went to the Project Lifesaver website ready to find it exactly what we were looking for. Unfortunately, the language was SO infantilizing and SO patronizing, the assumption that anyone who would be registered with this service couldn’t possibly have the agency or mental maturity to understand what was going on and thus everything slanted towards the “caregiver” perspective (he’s not my freaking “caregiver,” he’s my husband), and the general terminology so utterly demeaning (”the wanderer” being the most common designation used for the registered individual) that we quickly navigated away from the site, horrified.

There’s a lot of talk lately about services for autistic adults. if such services involve treating the adults as children to the degree that the Project Lifesaver site does, I’d rather take my chances with the elements. And I too am on medication for a chronic illness. However, I will not voluntarily hand over my hard-won autonomy and recognition as an adult for the sake of safety, even though I know and acknowledge that this is a service that could really be useful–in the best-case scenario setting our minds at ease a bit, in the worst-case scenario possibly saving my life.

I have often **fantasized** about implanting a microship in Nik…like our cats have. Obviously, I won’t/can’t do that but it would eliminate the problem we’d have of getting him to leave the Lifesaver device on his person!