Shannon Rosa
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- Birthday
- October 12
- Title
- Senior Editor
- Company
- The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
- Bio
- For more about parenting, autism, iPads, and geekery, see my personal blog, www.squidalicious.com. Also Senior Editor at Thinking Person's Guide to Autism, www.thinkingautismguide.com.
MY RECENT POSTS
- For New Autism Parents: On
Gratitude
July 31, 2012 04:43PM - Autism: It's Nobody's Fault
When It's Hard
July 10, 2012 04:00PM - Birth Mother Dithering
July 09, 2012 01:07PM - We Rode the Ducks!
July 01, 2012 02:02AM - An Autistic’s Review:
Thinking Person’s Guide to
Autism
June 23, 2012 04:37PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks, Gracielou.
That's probably the most
important line of
the whole
post, and…”
May 24, 2009 12:25PM - “Making you squirm, it is
my job.”
March 23, 2009 03:18PM - “@Michael: Shame is a
powerful verbal purgative for
me, so
it
seems.
@Jimenace,
tha…”
March 14, 2009 02:42PM - “We never teased her
because of her sister; but we
kept
teasing her even after I
d…”
March 12, 2009 08:38PM - “I have come to this same
conclusion myself, though it
took a
while. Our
youngest…”
March 10, 2009 12:41PM
Shannon Rosa's Links
JULY 31, 2012 4:43PM
For New Autism Parents: On Gratitude
Leo's passed the eleven and a half years mark. I feel like I'm
finally hitting my stride as an autism parent, in terms of
accepting Leo on his own terms, and not giving a damn about the
imaginary "easier" alternate reality society thinks I'm supposed to
pine after. This means I…
JULY 10, 2012 4:00PM
Autism: It's Nobody's Fault When It's Hard
JULY 9, 2012 1:07PM
Birth Mother Dithering
A new comment popped up on my
two-year-old BlogHer post Facebook-Stalking My Birth Son:
"I really have no right to say one way or another what you should or shouldn't do, but from what I have read,-If you are correct in that your son has never been told of his… Read full post »
JULY 1, 2012 2:02AM
We Rode the Ducks!
When Leo and his sisters are out
of school for the summer, my focus shifts to keeping us busy busy
busy -- as I wrote this week both on BlogHer
and at
Thinking Person's Guide to Autism. So when we were invited to
Ride the
Ducks in San Francisco -- take/… Read full post »
JUNE 23, 2012 4:37PM
An Autistic’s Review: Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism
L to R: Corina Becker, Kerry Magro, Shannon
Rosa,Stephen Shore, Carol Greenburg, Jennifer Myers.
TPGA contributors all. At IMFAR 2012.This review is by self-advocate Kerry Magro, whom I finally met in person at IMFAR last month. Thanks Kerry!
Kerry was diagnosed with Autism at 4 years old. Now as an a… Read full post »
JUNE 16, 2012 11:52AM
"Want to go to Disneyland?"
Leo keeps asking to go to "Disneyland," so we spend the morning
looking at pics from our trip -- to Leo's utter delight. We need to
figure out a way to get this boy back to Mouse Land -- he's been
asking for "Disneyland?" with increasing urgency.
My brother (the cheeky dude…
My brother (the cheeky dude…
MAY 21, 2012 2:58PM
How You Can Counter Jenny McCarthy-Style Autism Misinformation
The Chicago Sun-Times recently featured a Q&A puff piece about
Jenny McCarthy and Autism One. It was the kind of outside-autism
reporter's guileless autism misinformation-mongering we might have
expected three years ago, but which has all but disappeared from
mainstream media after Jenny's autism…
MAY 9, 2012 3:14PM
Expectations Adjustment: Professional Hair Styling for 8th Grade Graduation
MAY 4, 2012 8:47PM
Food Tolerance Win: Saag Paneer!
With Leo, sometimes routine trumps all. I'm guessing that's why,
after almost two years of me dipping naan in saag and handing it to
him, he took over the damn saag-dipping himself.
And now our boy eats spinach voluntarily, just as he does his daily dose of cod liver oil. And his…
And now our boy eats spinach voluntarily, just as he does his daily dose of cod liver oil. And his…
MAY 1, 2012 2:44AM
UU Sex Ed FTW
Iz is just finishing up her OWL (Our Whole Lives) sex ed class at
our Unitarian church. She's been going for three hours every Sunday
evening for several months. They've covered a wide range of topics,
from dating to gender identity to STDs to reproduction to sexual
identity (including a PFLAG/… Read full post »
APRIL 22, 2012 2:58AM
Autism Apps: Comic Strip - CS
And so sometimes your son's home program supervisor says, "but isn't there an even simpler app for making social stories and scripts, you know, like a comic strip?"
A ten-second iTunes search and voila: Comic Strip - CS! For only 99 cents, even!
The ice cream story above took less than five/…
APRIL 12, 2012 9:38AM
Identifying & Accepting Happy Autistic Kids at the Playground
Tell me the truth: What would your reaction be, if you encountered
a kid like Leo endlessly pacing a playground structure as in the
video below? If you didn't read this blog, or blogs like it; if you
didn't have your own Leo, if you weren't a variation on Leo
yourself…
APRIL 5, 2012 12:55AM
Whack Those Moles
How many of you can identify with this scenario, whether in a good
way or bad?
Mali is a bit disappointed with this video, she wants to know why I didn't catch her when she was yelling "Dies, moles, die!"
Mali is a bit disappointed with this video, she wants to know why I didn't catch her when she was yelling "Dies, moles, die!"
APRIL 3, 2012 8:43PM
All About Autism Acceptance Month & CDC Autism Rates
Photo © Thai ChuThere's a reason for
the lack of posts lately: Writing and presentations and interviews
elsewhere. A lot of them. Most in March because the entire TPGA
team has been busy promoting the Thinking Person's Guide to Autism
book -- but then last week the
CDC issued a new… Read full post »
MARCH 28, 2012 3:40PM
Star Wars Yoga Class
Glad someone in our house is
getting exercise. Mali has been putting Leo's Star Wars action
figures through their yoga paces, letting them join the usual class
of pinnipeds, Littlest Pet Shop bobblers, and trucks.
I like the photo above because some of the oak tree branches look
like wayward Mali curl/… Read full post »
MARCH 12, 2012 1:38PM
Interviewed: Special Needs Book Review
MARCH 8, 2012 12:47PM
We MUST Do Better: Autism, Tragedy, and Transition to Adulthood
I don't know if you saw yesterday's horrible, tragic news about the
Sunnnyvale mother who
killed her 22 year old autistic son and then herself. It's
awful. It should never have happened. But there was a lot more than
autism and caregiver isolation going on there. They were a family
that…
FEBRUARY 29, 2012 4:31AM
Leo's World: in MacWorld
Leo and his iPad were featured in
MacWorld,
PCWorld and a bunch of related sites a couple of weeks ago --
something I completely forgot to mention here on the blog. The
articles focus on how the iPad has helped Leo become more
independent in his learning and play, and why/… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 27, 2012 9:32AM
Autism and Subtle Successes
Mark Rothko, White CenterNational Gallery of ArtI visited the National Gallery of Art when I was three months pregnant with my daughter Iz, who is now thirteen. I had never been fond of abstract art, but upon walking into a room full of Rothkos -- experiencing their luminous, subtle color/…
FEBRUARY 23, 2012 9:32AM
Polar Bear Plunges and Other Changes in Routine
Breaks are always interesting for Leo. His school prefers for
doctor visits to happen outside school times, so I tend to pack
non-school weekdays full of medical appointments. And outings! The
former are generally tolerated with mild to moderate protests, the
latter are tolerated and often enjoyed --…
FEBRUARY 21, 2012 1:19PM
People Who Matter
I am grateful for calm, quiet,
days like today. In which my kids and I get to hang out with lovely
people like Rachel, who will walk with
us in redwood forests, and stop to take pictures of fallen-tree
-loving fungus:
And wait, not cajole or prod,
while we encourage Leo to… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 16, 2012 3:15AM
Leo App Review: Injini's Write My Name
Tracing letters and words.
It's been a while since Leo sat down with
a brand new app and just took off with it, but that's what happened
with
Injini's new Write My Name handwriting practice app ($1.99).
Yay! Leo deserves a fun, crisply designed, intuitive and
customizable app to help/… Read full post »
FEBRUARY 15, 2012 4:22PM
Fabulous SEPTAR Event and Silent Auction March 3rd
Something I didn't say on the email lists but feel comfortable
saying here: This is going to be a hell of a lot of fun! Please
come.
Join us at Starry Night, an evening in support of SEPTAR, the Special Education PTA of Redwood City,
Saturday March 3, 2012 from 6 pm to…
Join us at Starry Night, an evening in support of SEPTAR, the Special Education PTA of Redwood City,
Saturday March 3, 2012 from 6 pm to…
FEBRUARY 12, 2012 4:58PM
Mali's iPad App Reviews: Puppet Pals
Many kids, whether they're on the autism spectrum or not, like to
create their own worlds and their own stories. Leo's sister Mali's
favorite app for total creative and instant animated storytelling
is PuppetPals,
a free app she uses on our iPad.
In the video demo below, Mali shows how simple the…
In the video demo below, Mali shows how simple the…
FEBRUARY 11, 2012 11:31AM
Peanut Butter Toast
Leo's working hard at making his own meals, especially favorites
like peanut butter toast. And I do mean working -- there are so
many steps, and using tools like pot holders is not easy for a dude
who is working on his fine motor control. But he's doing so well.
Though…
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