by Tara McClintick | Aug 24, 2020 | Autism, Conversations with Jake, Conversations with Mom
Today I asked Jake if he wanted to choose what we worked on or if he’d rather me give him some options. He said he wanted to choose. Then on the letter board he spelled out, “Most have healthy heart, not interested in hate.” “Ok,” I said,...
by Jake McClintick | Feb 13, 2020 | Autism, Books and Poetry, Conversations with Jake, Conversations with Mom, Poems by Jake, Poetry Powers, Spiritual
To end our RPM session today we did an imagery writing exercise (as taught to us by Katie Masotti) where Jake describes an item with his five senses. I also added an end sentence of his final thought, just out of my own curiosity. For Valentines Day, he described his...
by Tara McClintick | Jan 23, 2020 | Autism, Communication and Education, Conversations with Jake, Conversations with Mom, Interactive Adaptable Games, Supporting Child Development
Jake as Mr.SharkDuring Jake’s session with Katie they discussed the various ways animals communicate. Afterwards she asked him which animal would he be most interested in interviewing if animals could communicate like humans do. Jake answered “not...
by Tara McClintick | Mar 21, 2019 | Autism, Conversations with Jake, Conversations with Mom
Jake and I have been practicing having casual conversations via the letter board. Since he was not able to converse for the first two decades of his life, I figured practicing would be a good idea. Here I numbered a list of 24 common casual conversation topics. I had...
by Jake McClintick | Mar 17, 2019 | Attitude and Integrity, Autism, Challenging Behaviors, Communication and Education, Conversations with Jake, Spiritual, Story of My Life by Jake
Story of My Life Pt. 16 by Jake McClintick 3/17/2019 Reality with autism is so hard sometimes. Most have good talking skills. Most can ask people so many things. Most not like me. Not easy not being able to talk. Real most hard most of the time. Really wish I could...
by Jake McClintick | Feb 25, 2019 | Autism, Conversations with Jake, Spiritual, Story of My Life by Jake
Story of My Life Pt. 13 by Jake McCClintick 2/25/19Good that my mom not great at getting me to do much. So much of my life I not get to control. Not like other lives I can see. Most have control over life decisions. I have only things in only my house I am becoming...
by Tara McClintick | Feb 14, 2019 | Autism, Conversations with Jake, Conversations with Mom, Spiritual
To end our RPM session today I had made a list of 20 Valentine’s day words: Valentine’s Day Love February Care Hug Adore Affection Kiss Warm Heart Pink Red Snuggle Cozy Like Cookies Sweet Dear Honey Cherish Jake’s Sentences via letter board (words from...
by Jake McClintick | Feb 7, 2019 | Attitude and Integrity, Autism, Challenging Behaviors, Communication and Education, Conversations with Jake, Spiritual, Story of My Life by Jake
Story of My Life Pt.11 by Jake McClintick 2/7/19 Am surprised to realize about other people having same rotten thoughts as me. Lots good hate about not living life like they think other people might be doing. So hate that, not really truth! So relieved to learn that...
by Jake McClintick | Feb 5, 2019 | Attitude and Integrity, Autism, Challenging Behaviors, Conversations with Jake, Spiritual, Story of My Life by Jake
Story of My Life Pt. 10 by Jake McClintick 2/5/2019 To have lots hate be gone is so much better. I have heard God has good, awesome purpose my life. Not sure exactly what has planned, but I am sure I have lots to look forward to. I can tell my life isn’t reality...
by Tara McClintick | Feb 4, 2019 | Autism, Communication and Education, Conversations with Jake, Conversations with Mom, Planning for Success, Supporting Child Development
After our RPM sessions one practice exercise we sometimes end with is for Jake to complete sentences. For these sentences all began with the word “sometimes” (given starting phrase in bold print, Jake’s words follow): SOMETIMES 1. Sometimes when I...