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  • Just like everyone else…
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  • Huge thanks
  • Autism and Play
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  • Mainstream School!
  • When amazing things happen
  • Back to earth with a bump
  • Bring on the Blanket
  • Happy Birthday Franklin 🥳
  • The Mainstream Dream
  • The beat of the drum goes round and round
  • Sick and Tired
  • Mummy I want a drink!
  • 4 and Fabulous!
  • A boys best friend
  • A little New Year plea
  • Festive fallout!
  • Brotherly Love
  • A voice without words
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  • Hello
  • Diagnosis

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  • Zip it!
  • Where words fail, Music speaks
  • Celebrating the wins
  • Risk vs Reward – The struggle is real
  • It’s beginning to look a lot like…
  • Rituals
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  • Sensory Seeker
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  • Helpless
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  • We’re in Autism Parenting Magazine!
  • Happy Holidays! (kind of)
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  • OT are you listening?!👂
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  • Where words fail, Music speaks
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  • Celebrating the wins
  • Risk vs Reward – The struggle is real
  • Coping strategy?
  • It’s beginning to look a lot like…
  • Rituals
  • PECS in action!
  • 🙈
  • Sensory Seeker
  • A very Good Bye…
  • Helpless
  • Sunflower Lanyard Scheme
  • We’re in Autism Parenting Magazine!
  • We’re in Autism Parenting Magazine!
  • Happy Holidays! (kind of)
  • Dark Den.. attempt 2
  • Life is a balancing act
  • Just like everyone else…
  • Move up Day!
  • Huge thanks
  • Autism and Play
  • Spinning in Circles
  • Mainstream School!
  • When amazing things happen
  • Back to earth with a bump
  • Bring on the Blanket
  • Happy Birthday Franklin 🥳
  • The Mainstream Dream
  • The beat of the drum goes round and round
  • Sick and Tired
  • Mummy I want a drink!
  • 4 and Fabulous!
  • A boys best friend
  • A little New Year plea
  • Festive fallout!
  • Brotherly Love
  • A voice without words
  • To be Frank …lin The Early Signs
  • Hello
  • Diagnosis

Hello

spinningincircles 29th Oct 2018

Hello i’m Jo, wife and mother to two amazing children. Tabitha 7 - chatterbox, lover of little mix, dancing and watching bakeoff and Franklin 4 - non verbal, lover of spinning, jumping and holding something in each hand...

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Imitation

spinningincircles 15th Jan 2021

Franklin is trying to imitate!  Children with autism often have significant difficulty with imitation. This has always been the case for Franklin who has never imitated actions, sounds, or facial expressions.  Imitation is a fundamental skill and these imitation deficits …

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A heavy heart

spinningincircles 9th Jan 2021

It is with a heavy heart I write this post. The past year has obviously been a very tough and trying time for all. For us it has also brought about a time to consider and evaluate Franklin’s future schooling.  …

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Sparkly lights on a magical Christmas night

spinningincircles 16th Dec 2020

After getting a call to pick Franklin up early from school and being told he wasn’t coping with the Christmas activities, I was worried how tonight would go.  We’d been to the Christmas light display at Dunham Massey a few …

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A safe space for Franklin

spinningincircles 12th Dec 2020

Some children require an extra level of care to keep them safe during the day and especially during the night.  Franklin’s behaviour can be hyperactive and impulsive on top of which he has no sense of danger and absolutely no …

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It’s beginning to look a lot like…

spinningincircles 29th Nov 2020

Franklin has no understanding of the festive period we are entering into, nor is he even aware of Christmas Day, Santa, elves or reindeer. Some years I’m ok with this, other years it makes me really sad. Maybe one day …

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A little bit special

spinningincircles 16th Nov 2020

So, this is a bit special.  Tabitha wanted to make a video to say thank you to Support Dogs for providing her little brother with an autism assistance dog. She recorded all the clips herself, I just helped her put …

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Less reasons to shop at Morrisons

spinningincircles 29th Oct 2020

Does this look like we’re trying to take our dog for an afternoon stroll in your store Morrisons ?!!! Or does a tiny bit of common sense show that our disabled son has an assistance dog which actually enables our …

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Training.. more videos

spinningincircles 13th Oct 2020

I’m sorry for the overload of videos but I can’t not share these with you. Thunda really has changed everything. On the last two attachment training sessions, I cannot believe Franklin happily walked around a busy Ramsbottom and a Morrisons …

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BFF’s

spinningincircles 10th Oct 2020

It’s only taken a week. BFF’s. My heart is bursting 💓

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Can you believe it?!

spinningincircles 7th Oct 2020

This absolutely would not have happened a week ago. Our attachment session at Middlebrook retail park yesterday afternoon. Somewhere I’ve never been able to get Franklin out of the car. A busy shopping environment, next to roads with cars passing, …

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  • OT are you listening?!👂
  • Zip it!
  • Where words fail, Music speaks
  • Celebrating the wins
  • Risk vs Reward – The struggle is real
  • It’s beginning to look a lot like…
  • Rituals
  • PECS in action!
  • Sensory Seeker
  • A very Good Bye…
  • Helpless
  • Sunflower Lanyard Scheme
  • We’re in Autism Parenting Magazine!
  • We’re in Autism Parenting Magazine!
  • Happy Holidays! (kind of)
  • Autism Awareness Week
  • Lockdown
  • Super 6!
  • International Women’s Day
  • The Jury’s out
  • Playtime ⭐️
  • OT are you listening?!👂
  • Thunda and Blue Skies
  • Zip it!
  • Where words fail, Music speaks
  • Spinning in Circles
  • Celebrating the wins
  • Risk vs Reward – The struggle is real
  • Coping strategy?
  • It’s beginning to look a lot like…
  • Rituals
  • PECS in action!
  • 🙈
  • Sensory Seeker
  • A very Good Bye…
  • Helpless
  • Sunflower Lanyard Scheme
  • We’re in Autism Parenting Magazine!
  • We’re in Autism Parenting Magazine!
  • Happy Holidays! (kind of)
  • Dark Den.. attempt 2
  • Life is a balancing act
  • Just like everyone else…
  • Move up Day!
  • Huge thanks
  • Autism and Play
  • Spinning in Circles
  • Mainstream School!
  • When amazing things happen
  • Back to earth with a bump
  • Bring on the Blanket
  • Happy Birthday Franklin 🥳
  • The Mainstream Dream
  • The beat of the drum goes round and round
  • Sick and Tired
  • Mummy I want a drink!
  • 4 and Fabulous!
  • A boys best friend
  • A little New Year plea
  • Festive fallout!
  • Brotherly Love
  • A voice without words
  • To be Frank …lin The Early Signs
  • Hello
  • Diagnosis
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