My Special Journey with Advaith

I am delighted to share with all my friends that I have been given an opportunity by CADRRE, TVM to participate in an International Conference on Autism this weekend as a Speaker . I am humbled by the fact that I have been invited to speak among well-respected and reputed international speakers who are an authority in this area and have done some wonderful work for autism. I am grateful to the organisers who gave me such a platform to share my journey with Addu and look forward to meeting the stalwarts in autism and learning from them. I have been invited to talk about the different approaches that I tried with Addu and to discuss about the results of that parent implemented intervention program. The Conference details are as below

Glimpse of workshop.. For empowering parents of children with Autism.. 33 interested parents joined and we had an interactive session!! Very very motivating session!!I am trying my best to reach out to more families!!Spreading awareness and knowledge

Glimpse of Todays workshop(18 Nov 2018) about structured teaching method and visual schedules in a home environment!!it was a great interactive session with 15 parents!! Arranged it in my house and focused on more practical learning!!All the motivated parents and I were so happy to do a session with them.

A note from my heart..... Advaith was a chubby and handsome boy during his child hood. All his motor milestones were on time. He started walking by 11 months and was playing with his brother and friends. He was a happy and active child. After 1 ½ years, slowly he went into his own world, he stopped responding to name call and was obsessed with cartoons like Thomas and friends. He was showing great interest in soft toys, trains, music. He stopped waving. He was not bothered about people around him. He was not bothered even whether I was around or not. He stopped babbling. He started crying for small reasons. I still remember that one day he cried for more than two hours continuously because the power went off and the TV was not working. We realised that something was wrong with him. After a lot of confusion, he was diagnosed with autism. Once while we were staying at a hotel, he started crying for his blanket at night. He cried for a long time and gave us the car keys to...

Dear friends In this video I am showing How I am working on Functional academics!! Topic is Keeping items according to list for cooking. Prerequisites are identifying vegetables, identify words Material used : Paper, onion,chilly,garlic,tomato 4 steps!! Step by step video is attached!! Regards Smrithy and Addu Topic: Keeping items according to the list provided for cooking. prerequisites are identify vegetables,identify the words

Addu is reading and keeping things in a tray (Independently) according to the list of instructions provided!! My long term goal is following written instructions to complete tasks independently in a workplace. I break down into simple steps and train him step by step.I am sure that consistent practice will help him to achieve my long term goal.I am very excited to see how independently he is doing it.Sharing this video for fellow parents. https://youtu.be/hIiJ-U35Ig0

This was my presentation in the International Autism Conference hosted by CADREE,Trivandrum in 2018.I was talking about my journey of Resilience from my heart. Thank you so much CADREE for having invited me to present it. Smrithy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFVFHO7g7b8&t=