I got a bit spoiled with the grey matter/white matter blog (gmwm.autistics.org). Not because it gave me a forum to explore my own ideas, but because it gave me a place to read more by Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay.
Tito guest blogged a piece here on LeftBrain/RightBrain.
I miss reading Titoisms. I could use some crosseyed invisible kangaroos. I could use his uplifting statements.
I hope all is well with Tito. Tito, if you read this, know that I’d love to see something from you. I bet there are others who feel the same as well.
Left Brain Right Brain 
I was thinking about Tito, thanks for posting on Autism Hub.
I’m sure Tito is welcome to blog here on LBRB again.
Oh, I just sorta thought Tito would start blogging here. Tito, if you read this, please blog here if you feel like blogging. I always enjoy your writing.
I’d love to hear from him as well.
and what happened to grey matter/ white matter? I went to the link and didn’t see anything.
As I understand it, Amanda B. and Laura T. needed to reconfigure all of autistics.org a couple of months back. I don’t know the precise computer terms for what she they were doing. It all went off-line for a while. She got the most important pages back up online with some difficulty and then went on to handle a bunch of other complicated tasks not related to autistics.org. I think that getting GMWM back online just fell to a lower priority. I don’t know, but maybe she’ll get it fixed sometime. Apparently formatting it all is complicated. I know it’s something that is over my head.
Just noted this on the AS website.
http://www.autismspeaks.org/tito.php
Kristina,
Thank you. It’s fascinating that they devoted a page to Tito, but as far as I can tell they don’t include his latest book and it’s been out for a couple of months, I think…
I have a copy I got right before I left to go to San Diego for the USD conference… and I haven’t read it yet… I will start right now.
I haven’t looked on his mother’s website. He may be blogging there or something…
“Teaching and learning is an age-old process. It does not take scientific research to realize that children must be taught if they are ever to learn and improve. ASD students need not be deprived of teaching and learning opportunities because of diagnosis, differences or doubt about a student’s potential”
I thank you for sending me off to their site. It appears, from what I’ve read so far… we’ve been doing a variation of their methodology with little boy. The hardest thing I had to do was learn to point myself. Last night, little boy wanted to follow Dad on the tractor to the barn… you can convey a lot of emotion, decision making, choice etc in a point towards the barn and “Dad” as your instruction.
May I also recommend the child development (NT development) series of books (18mths to teen yrs, each year is a separate book) by Louise Bates Ames and Carol Chase Haber. It’s a reminder that children learn at different ages, no matter what ABA tells us about having to train them to do things early and with a treat. I’ve been worried over the lateness of the eldest bathing independantly, he just started a few mths ago… he’s 8… guess what… 8 is when they bathe independantly… So now teaching little boy, it’s a gross motor skill and a body part teaching lesson… it’ll come.
Thank you again, I’ll be reading his books.
“RPM aims to be conversational, age-appropriate and individually adapted to the learner. Success in learning is the reward in RPM.
Learning should occur in every RPM session, regardless of a student’s behavior. Teaching can be accomplished despite behaviors as long as the teacher’s focus remains on the work at hand, rather than on the student’s stims”
What she said.
S.
Summer – I feel Bovine
Summer came with its bag of heat and poured the contents down onto the sky. If the sky had a face as perfect as the one the mirror shows me of myself, making me want to stare at it for more than five minutes, (till someone tells me ENOUGH!!!) I am sure it would hold a frown on its brow that has been stuck together with sweat. “Now WHAT… Who will undo my sticky brows back???”
The sky then passed down the contents from the sun’s bag to the grassy spot where I was walking with my aide feeling bovine like an absent minded cow following him. He was my cow herder right below the sweaty, sticky browed sky. And I – an obedient cow was supposed to be following him because he would lead me to the greenest of green grass although I was burping out my breakfast.
Usually I am tactile defensive to grass because I never trust the world that it hides. There can be teaming ants and all those black and green and horrible-horrible bugs that wait below the innocent looking grass for my toes to step on them so that they can cry ‘ATTACK!!!’ in bug language.
But I was wearing my shoes and sure enough they could never get a guess about how stinky my toes get inside them. “Now WHAT???”
Who knows how long the cow herder and the cow walked on the grass – stepping along some wee little things? But sure the summer vacation began.
I passed a dignified man with a hat. (“Was his head filling with sweat?”) But who cares?? Should cows care anyway? – That’s what Bovine feeling is!
Hi Tito!
“Summertime and the living is bovine…”
Those are words to a song. Or maybe they should be.
I hope you have shade trees to go with the grass where you live.
Awesome Titoism!
Thanks a lot Tito.