Part II of the National Poetry Month Challenge

Now this is the last of the poem that I have done for the National poetry month challenge. It has different types of poems and different patterns. This was a fun challenge for me to take.

Ode to honey-

Bees are attracted to honey
Not vinegar. Mom always says.
Honey is sweet, smooth with a golden color.
It is infectious if you let it.
Honey can get everywhere.
You cannot be deceived by honey.
Vinegar can look like drinkable sweet water.
Until you open the bottle.
The strong smell doesn't tickle your senses.
It's bitter to taste.
It is a natural disinfectant,
good to clean with.
So those who are like Honey will gather spread love.
Those who are like Vinegar will chase out the love.

Monorhyme poem

The gleaming instrument is a bell.
Packed inside the clock makes time tell.
Get up! Time to go to work, go to school, get the mail.
Time; the task master, with it you cannot fail.
The on going ringing of the bell,
makes you want to drink some ale.
If you did drink ale.
So instead you grab some water, more healthier you tell.
On and on you go though, only in time you sell.
Time to sell that blasted bell.

What if poem

What if I could go back in time.
I might see the Parthenon be built twice!

What if I did go back in time.
I could see the civilizations over run with mice.

What if I saw the great men in history.
I would ask them questions for directions thrice.

I know I couldn't, but if I could; would I?

Nature Personified poem.

Fire

Fire stars from a spark of lightning.
It consumes everything it touches.
The colors yellow, orange, and read dances in delight.
The forest screams as the fire does it's worst.
Rain comes and snuffs, suffocates the fire, giving the chance for a reborn.

Holiday poem

Memorial Day
Flags waving in the wind.
Smoke from family baroque, flowers in the flower shop.
Laughter at the telling of family stories.
Baroque chicken, aunt Mable's famous apple pie.
Cut flowers for the Vets. grave.
Memorial Day.

Alliteration Poem

Mr. Nutter found his Mutter on his butter.
"Flutter", says Mr. Nutter "I want your cutter."
"The Cutter will cut the mettle latter." Says Nutter.
"You are a nutter Mr. Nutter".
Says friend Flutter.
"Your mind is in a Flutter" Says Mr. Nutter.
"I'll tell you, it is better that the cutter will
cut the butter." Says Flutter.
It will matter that the butter is cut by the cutter.
"The mettle latter will not be cut by the Cutter. I'll tell you Mr.
Nutter"
You maybe right Friend Flutter, I'm afraid that the mettle
latter, have cut the cutter." Says Mr. Nutter.
"You are a nutter Mr. Nutter"
Said Friend Flutter.

A-B-A-B poem

In the middle of the meadow.
Is a rabbit hopping lazy in the sun.
Watching the rabbit is a widow.
On his back by watching the clouds, her son.
He sees dragons, turtles,and bears, imagination is his window.
The shadows come from the drooping of the sun.
The pair get up to run, laughing from the meadow.

Rictameter Poem

Singing
Joyful praises
Happy noises at home
Laughing, giggling as the song
progresses, melody combines harmony.
Different types of children laughter.
Adults come in with the base line.
Join in our song
Singing.

Quinzain Poem

Little boy with autism
Plays with the music
stand, singing.

The Quinzain Poem again was inspired by my nephew. At the time he was taking apart my music stand and putting it back together, while singing/ humming.

If You were poem

If you were a book
Then I am your reader.
I'd read you from cover to cover,
only if you were good.
You would keep me company during the
midnight hours.
Come to think of it I would "man" handle you!

Lantern Poem

Shoes
fabric
fun, flirty
hard 2' heel
Yellow bright
Slippers

Clerihew Poem

The way Robert had his breakfast.
With eggs,toast, and milk to break his fast.
He ate much gusto, he tore his toast.
Robert that silly man, liked his eggs the most.

This one about Robert, I was thinking of my Uncle. I was looking through some very old family pictures and he became my subject! He doesn't know so I hope he doesn't mind.

The 5 W's poem

Ruth
Had her lolly pop ,
in her hand,
her older brother took it,
he wanted the lolly pop.

The last poem

The burn

Exercising
Make muscles grow
Jumping up, down, heart rate speeds
Is it abusing the body?
Exhausted.

Cheers Everyone!

Autism is explained by Carly

I know that this have been blogged about so many times over but this is amazing. I also know that not every child with autism is the same. This is still amazing to find out what most children experience while having autism. So I'll provide some links if you wish to look at:

Autism Breakthrough: Girl's Writings Explain Her Behavior and Feelings

Carly Fleischmann blogs about her journey with Autism

Carly Fleischmann on Twitter



Cheers Everyone!

April, Autism, and Poems

This month is not only autism awareness month but also national poetry month. So all month long comes from Stephanie Abney to write different poems. Yesterday was to write a Haiku poem. Haiku poem is a traditional Japanese poem, Stephanie Abeny explained it this way:

Haiku is a popular form of Japanese poetry. It usually centers around a nature theme, but you can make one up about anything. Haiku poems don’t rhyme; they follow a pattern.

The pattern for haiku is as follows:

Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables

You need to pay attention to the number of SYLLABLES, not words.

So in honer of April being both autism awareness month and national poetry month, I have written this:

Autism is a disability.
Autism, blue puzzles, April.
Blue, pants, shirt, and socks!

Cheers Everyone!

April=Autism Awareness Month

April is autism awareness month, along with poetry month. On April 1 places around the globe have been lighting up blue. Everywhere from the Empire State Building, to The White House, to the Opera house in Sydney Australia, and everywhere in between. This month we are encouraged to put on blue clothing. Blue is the color of Autism. So that is why places around this globe have been going blue.

The number right now for autism is staggering, and they are estimated to be growing. The current number right now is 1 in 110 children will be diagnose with autism. 1 in 70 boys will be diagnose with autism,( numbers from Autism Speaks), Remember this is just the current numbers, they may change latter this year and I do expect it to change.

Now my nephew and oldest brother is currently on the the autism spectrum. People keep telling me:

"But they don't "look" like they have autism"

My answer is:

"What are they suppose to "look" like?"

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints says this about autism:

"Autism is a disability with characteristics that vary across a wide spectrum. While persons with autism can’t be identified by their physical appearance, they have similar attributes that can be observed. They usually have difficulties with language or communication, social skills and behavior, often due to sensory difficulties. Children with severe autism may be nonverbal and seem unaware of other people. Those with mild autism can appear to be incredibly smart, but may seem very odd in social interactions. Most people with autism are somewhere in the middle. Even though they have difficulty expressing their feelings and relating to others, people with autism still sense how others feel about them.

Whether a person’s autism is mild, moderate, or severe, it is commonly accepted to be a lifelong developmental disability . The exact causes of autism are unknown; however, it is a brain-based disorder. It is clear that individuals with autism are born with the disorder or born with the potential to develop it. Autism is not caused by bad parenting. "

I could not have said this better then my self. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints also provides information on what to look for, ways to help, and teaching tips. So please click on the link to get additional information. The website also provides additional links to other autism websites, also other information to other disabilities. All of this information is not only exclusive to the people who belong to this church. The information that the link provides belongs to everyone everywhere.

Please put on some article of blue clothing during this month and support Autism Awareness.

Cheers Everyone!

Autism, The Latest Findings and Articles

Autism have always been in the media. Now the latest on this topic. Click on the link. You will find that Dr. Wakefield's license have been evoked by the British gov. Wakefield doesn't even have a license to practice medicine in the US. Yet people still take is word as gospel. Why has is license in Britten been evoked? Simple, he changed patients medical rerecords to support his false findings. Other licensed medical researchers have found Wakefield's clams that the MMR shot will give children autism is so false. I do like what Dr. Paul Offit have said, and it is true; sadly. "This scared people and it's hard to unscare them."

Why am I writing about this? Simple. My older brother has autism, my nephew, and various cousins have children who happens to be on the autism spectrum. I am tired of the lies. I want what all other families want; The Truth. We want the truth on diagnosis and treatments. Now various medical researchers want to do more study on the autism spectrum, so that they can find treatments, but because Wakefield and other people are making that hard on them to find treatments.

Remember: this false data on autism has scared people and it is hard to unscare them.

Will autism fraud report be a vaccine booster? - ksl.com

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Cheers Everyone!

Autism and Surfing

In states that are not close to the Ocean, we have Horse back riding lessons for autistic along with other children with disabilities. One mom of an physically disabled child sees her son on a horse, he becomes a different child. I have never thought that surfing would create something of the same results.

Cheers everyone!

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Autism & Sacrament Meeting

Last Sunday my nephew who has autism came to church with me. We went to go out the car, when low and behold he escape from me and went across the street to play in someones backyard. During Sacrament Meeting he escaped me and his dad and ran around the choir seats. He came and ran towards me; before he could get a way from me, I caught him. He made more noise then usual. His dad took him home early. He was on his way for a melt down.

He usually doesn't act like this. Usually he is more calm. What happened? Why was he acting like this? Why can't he behave like *other* children? The answer to all of the questions is; my nephew has autism.

He likes a schedule, he likes what is normal to him. When he is out of his norm. that is when he acts the way he did last Sunday.

People still say: "why he doesn't look like he has autism"

What does autism supposed to look like?

So now my mom and I got on a discussion. One thing I told her was that I believe in "strengths and weaknesses." Ponder about this for one moment. You are not going to ask a musician to perform brain surgery. The strength of a musician is to perform music.

Special needs have some amazing strengths. One strength is to except people, and love them without restraint or judgment. To love without restraint or judgment, is the Pure Love Of Christ. That is an amazing strength indeed.

Within our discussion, she told me something different. The autism spectrum is large, very large. So her thought was ( note, this is just thinking ) that in some way we are all on the spectrum. Everyday the autism spectrum is getting larger and larger. Everyday people are limited in strengths. Not everyone is a doctor, musician, writer, painter, carpenter, educator, and etc; be we appreciate others talents and strengths. We can go to them ask them for their help in their expertise in their field.

While I was working with special needs, is that the first thing that I have notice is that special needs are so ready to accept people. They don't care who you are, or where you come from. They just love you, you are their instant friend. If anything that is one thing that all special needs can teach us. How to love people, and in that same instant be a friend to all.

Cheers Everyone!

Google SketchUp

I have found an article called Google workshop to help parents and teachers of children of Autism. Using a 3D program that is used and originally made for architects, however the entertainment industry have used this program also. Google have decided to put the program to use for a different type of audience, that audience is children with ASD,(Autism Spectrum Disorder), called Google SketchUp .

This is free to download, watch a video, create your own models, share with friends, and it is also for educators.

Also on Saturday February 6 10 a.m. to noon at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, 320 Alfred Emery Building, 225 S. 1400 East in President's Circle. The designer of SketchUp and a designer for Universal Creative will be at the University of Utah for a presentation on Google SketchUp.

Cheers!

Autism and Education

For those of you are not flowing my autism post, you may not know that my nephew is autistic, along with my oldest brother. Lately my nephew has found my music stand fascinating. My music stand is the kind of stand that can be taken apart for storage, put back together for use. I have shown my nephew once how to put the music stand together, for about an half hour he will take it apart and put it back together, it keeps him entertained. His little brain is a mechanical brain; as in he can figure out things fast, stack things up and have them balance. The fun thing is that what he can make things balance, you'd think it would never work.

Researchers at University in Vancouver believe that autism and schizophrenia are genetic opposites in this article called Study links autism and schizophrenia. I thought that it was far fetched, how? Was my question. The *how* they believe according to Philip Stead and Michael Elliot, is that autism and schizophrenia are caused by anomalies in the same places in the human genome. People with out these disabilities have two copies of this genome, autism disorder has one copy, schizophrenia has multiple copy's. Also read if interested comparative genomics of autism and schizophrenia

One parent comment on this find, suggest that she believes in this study. Is it right or not? I believe that further research and study needs to be conducted. Now, I am not saying that they are wrong or right. With this *find* they hope to have new treatments for autism, and schizophrenia. Like I have said more research needs to be done, before they do anything what so ever. If they can treat autism then what would happen to my nephews mechanical brain; would it be in some degree different, or would he still be able to figure out things just as fast if he was treated?

Interesting articles nevertheless. I'll leave it up to you to decide what to think.

Autism Christmas Poem.

I have totally stole this one from my brothers blog. All I need to say is:

"Welcome to Special needs!"

This poem is perfect on how a parent/care giver feels, all though out the year.

Autism Christmas Poem

Twas the Night Before Christmas
And all through the house

The creatures were stirring
Yes, even the mouse
We tried melatonin

And gave a hot bath
Asleep early for Christmas?
…an unlikely path
The children were finally
All nestled in bed
When visions of Christmas
Ran through my OWN head
Did I get the right gift?
The right color and style?
Would there be a blank stare
Or even, maybe, a smile?
Friends & family come
But they don’t understand
The pleasure he gets
Just from bending his hands.
"Just make him stop it," some say
"Just tell him "no",You must learn to be tough.."
On, and on they do go…
We smile and nod
Because we know deep inside

The debate is moot
Let them all take a side
We know what it’s like
To live with the spectrum
The struggles and triumphs
Achievements, regressions.

But what some don’t know
And what some don’t see

Is the joy that we feel
Over simplicity.
He said "hello"!
He ate something green!
He looked me in my eyes
He did not cause a scene!
He peed on the potty!
(Who cares if he’s ten)

He stopped saying the same thing
Again and again!"
Some others don’t realize
Just how we can cope
How we bravely hang on
At the end of our rope

But what they don’t see
Is the joy we can’t hide

When our children with autism
Make the tiniest stride
We may look at others
Without the problems we face
With envy, with wonder,
Or even distaste.

What we want them to know
What’s important to see

Is that children with autism
Bring simplicity.
We don’t get excited
Over expensive things
We jump for joy
With the progress work brings

Children with autism
Try so hard every day

That they make us proud
More than words can say.
They work even harder
Than you or I
To achieve something small
To reach a star in the sky
So, to those who don’t get it
Or can’t get a clue

Take a walk in our shoes
And I’ll assure you
That even 10 minutes
Into the walk
You’ll look at us all
With respect, even shock.
You will realize
What it is we go through
And the next time you see us
I can assure you
That you won’t say a thing
You’ll be quiet and learn
,Like the years I learned too
When the tables were turned.

-Anonymous

Baby watch & Early intervention

I have heard a lot of misconceptions about autism. I have hard some that are um.............out there, like:

• autism can come on later in life, like cancer.
  
• Then the popular misconception that autism is cause by the MMR shots.
  

The disorder is indeed genetic.

The questions is, how do we know that a child has autism? As a parent you can do what is called "Baby watch." This is easy enough and you can do this watch when the new born is about 3 day's old. What you do is you watch your new born while you are talking to him or her. If your new born can focus on your face/eyes then that is a good indication that the child in question is autism free. If the child cannot focus on your face/eyes, then I would recommend to have the child tested.

Not only test for the disorder but also test for an allergy to gluten and calcium. The reason why is autism is now overly diagnose. If the child in question has an allergy to gluten and calcium then the child will exhibit systems as if it were autism, if the allergy is consume. How this happens is that the allergy creates an chemical reaction within the body, as a result it will make the child appear as if he or she has autism. If the child is allergic to gluten and calcium then of course take it out of the diet.

Autism is on the rise. The question is why? With in the past "experts" thought that the disorder was caused because the person is overly sexed. So the "experts" would castrate them if they were male. If female they would just give a full hysterectomy, then put both the male and the female into locked separate cages. Or they would be killed.

In France back about 250 years ago they have found a girl who they called the chicken girl. This girl was locked up within the same cage as the chickens. She acted just like the chickens who she was around night and day. Now remember this event was before they have found out what autism was; there was not a diagnose if this girl had autism or not. But today as doctors and sociologist have studied this "chicken girl's" case the more they are convinced she had autism. She is the classic example of what people would do if their child who had autism.

The reason for this to happen is that people did not know what autism was. They didn't understand how to help their child. They may have thought that they were consumed by the devil. So the distraught parents did what they thought was best. They would put them into institutes, where they would be abused unto the point of death. Or they would just be locked up in cages after the doctors would perform the surgeries. When this was done the gene pool of the disorder was somewhat contained.

So how can a parent help their child who has autism? There are schools for autistic children. The sad thing is that some parents cannot afford the $28,000 or more a year to put their child in school, every year. So some parents have been thinking out side the box; so they can effectively help their child. One possible solution is parents, caregivers, and teachers needs to be trained to teach a child who has autism. What it is, how it is came to be, how to create a successful routine. The teachers in public schools will know how to reach and teach the child successfully. So the abuse of the child in schools will stop, so will the accidental death.

If there is any other solution that you can think of please let me or Jeremy Robb know at his blog. We are open to ideas.

Cheers Everyone!!!

Teaching an artistic child music?

For the past month I have playing with an idea. For those who don't know, I play the violin, I have been playing for little over 20 years. Now my nephew Jonathan who has autism loves the violin. I have seen him taking out 2 of my violin's more then once tying to play it. That is when I decided to hide them. My brother Jeremy has also told me that he has seen Jonathan take out his guitar use his walking stick and use it as a violin bow. Another idea is to teach him the piano.

You can teaching an artistic child musical instruments. The question is how? For one thing he/she needs to learn by ear. I have found some discussions sites on the subject. Are they helpful? That depends on what you are looking for and what you want to know. Here are the sites and you can judge for yourself.

My first lesson with an autistic student
Teaching music to autistic kids
Violin masterclass
Teaching music to handicapped kids

Now this is just talking stage. I may need to wait until he his older, he is only 4 years old. I need to see what Jeremy and his wife Kristal say about this undertaking. He will also need a violin that is his size, if it come to that.

Coming from a music junkie, music can be a wonderful tool. There have been so many studies on music. It can rise or lower your GPA, blood pressure, mood, intelligence, and make the people around you calm. You may have notice on my play list I have mostly instrumental music, not a lot of vocal's. It's not that I don't like vocal's, I do have a lot of favorite singers. Instrumental music creates less emotional stress.

The world of Autsim

Nobody knows what people with autism are thinking, act the way they do, or do the things they do. Various people are trying to understand the autism spectrum. Regrettably there are some people who are on the autism spectrum become the object of ridicule, or they get yelled at, and become abused.

People on the autism spectrum see the world differently then we do. There are some who can't take high emotion that "normal" people display, it will overwhelm them, they can't handle it. They respond to positive music, mostly the classics. Some I have notice that they retreat into their own world, others can't remember all what happen yesterday.

So being in contact with people on the autism spectrum, I have learned that you must take it at their pace. They learn at a different pace. Remind them often, encourage involvement within positive activities. Give them positive praises. This is one of many ways they are just like us. We respond to positive praises, they do also.

Pleas try and not to raise your voice at them. Don't assume that they understand everything that you tell them, most likely they don't. Remember they see the world differently we do.

I had the privilege to work with a woman who had autism. She had the best smile. She also would color a picture if I would put the crayon in her hand, then I would take her hand and guide it. She had so much fun doing that. This woman was in her 40's, but her mind was still a little 3 year old.

I have many more stories about special needs. Maybe I will tell more latter.

Church with an Autistic child

My SIL teaches the sunbeams in church. Her son has autism and is in her class. He is a typical child with autism. That means he is in his own world. He loves very bright colors and is cute to boot. With his level of autism he need lots of attention.

One of the sisters in my ward has a son in that same class. She has taken her son out of that class and put him in a different sunbeam class. The reason was she thought that her son was not learning enough. Meaning that a lot of attention is focus on my nephew. She did not like that.

So instead of teaching her son the importance of respecting the differences in others and their abilities. She is teaching her son to stay-a-way from people with disabilities, because they are not "normal".

What ever that means!

Painting our nails/ Pi Day

Today while I was watching my nephew Daniel I got my nail polish out and painted my toe nails. Not the same as the real pedicure I know but it will do. So my nephew Daniel wanted to have his finger nails to glow-in-the-dark. So I got my glow-in-the-dark nail polish and he painted his nails.

He also brought over his Lego Indiana Jones game. He was showing me how to die properly. He said:

"Look see this is how you die."

Yep he got a kick out of that! So he was showing me how to play the game. I would have the game for like 2 min. then he would take it away and start playing then he would say:

"Look see this is how you play! You need to jump hear, you need to use this guy so he can crawl. Press the "A" button and you can build things!"

It was fun this afternoon. My nephews are fun. Yes even the one with autism. What gets Jeremy is that people in the ward will ask him if his son has autism, then when the find out that he is autistic the response is:

"Really? He doesn't look like he has autism."

I have no clue what he is "suppose" to look like, but I think that he looks like my Grandpa Robb.

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Ok now tell me what you think about this. Go to Scothoser's Corner It talks about how the House of Representatives voted March 14 to be National Pi Day. Of all the things to vote on. Go figure. Oh well that is jest one excuse to eat a pie. Think about this you can have a Pie-eating-contest to celebrate the day, or do a math problem that has Pi in it. You choose. But as for me I think that I would like the Pie.

I know our government needs some major help. Of all the things to vote on. Could they come up with a very good plan to fix our nation?

Can I have a day with out drama?

My brother Seth came home. So he was over today. Because of that his #2 son Andrew didn't want to eat. That is when the drama started. Andrew wanted to have a brownie instead and talk with daddy. He started crying when his daddy told him: "You need to eat 3 chicken nuggets before you can have a brownie."

Daniel, Seth's oldest son he surprises me all the time on how smart he is. He is 5 years old not yet in kindergarten all because of this birthday is in December. But he can tell time and is reading and it's good for a kid that age. Daniel freaked out when his cousin who is autistic ate one of his chicken nuggets. You see Daniel thought that he couldn't have a brownie because of that, but auntie Hollie (me) told him that it was ok he can still have his brownie.

Then my nephew who is autistic he played in the kitty litter twice. You see he likes to get dirty, he loves going outside and playing in the dirt. He will put it on his head and eat it. So while I was cleaning up the kitty litter he went down stirs and dumped out the toys in the toy box. So after that was cleaned up he went back upstairs and dumped the dish soap all over the counter. After that was cleaned up Jeremy came home. Ah yes I forgot he also got into the Nathan's Jumper Roo more then once. The boy is too big he cant be in there. He can get in but need help getting out.

I think that he was acting like this because he is out of his routine. All what my brother can say: "Now you know what it is like to 'parent' an autistic child." Thanks Jeremy.

So today I had 5 nephews, (no nieces), all under the age of 6 and one of them has autism. So needless to say I didn't get any work done. And I have a rash on my neck. So after I have published this I will need to wash my neck and put some anti itching, allergy stuff on, or windex! Ahahaha!!!!

Shame on you Dr. Andrew Wakefield

This so called doctor started it all. Within a article from the Times online exposes Dr. Andre Wakefield as a fraud, and a manipulator. He created the lie that the vaccine MMR shot will cause autism. He had manipulated patients data to support his lie. Why? He only knows.

Because of this lie parents all over the world refuse to vaccinate their children. So now those children are at risk for measles, mumps and rubella. These diseases are/or deadly. Parents please read!

Last week official figures showed that 1,348 confirmed cases of measles in England and Wales were reported last year, compared with 56 in 1998. Two children have died of the disease. (this portion was taken from the article it's self)

Parents do your duty and get your children vaccinated before 2 years old. The MMR vaccine will not cause autism. It is better that your children are well and alive, then see them slip though your fingers. Don't let your child become a victim of one of these diseases: measles, mumps, or rubella.

Autism is caused by more dense brain matter. Children with autism are unique. Because of this one so called Doctor he has drooped countless parents around the world, and set autism research back about 20 years. Because of this one lie these children with autism are victims themselves, for they can't get the proper help that they need.

How dare you. How can you have the gull to do what you have done? Shame on you Dr. Wakefield.

Whoever reads this please help me get this word out. Tell your family, friends, co. workers, put it on your blogs, email people, and tell them to read the article from Times Online lets get the word out to encourage parents to vaccinate their child!

Autism

I have found a web web site that has proved that autism is in the genes. It has nothing to do with the common believe the shots. A team of doctors has proven this very thing. Why am I posting this? Well I have an older brother, and a nephew who has autism. So now I have found a website that helps explain all about autism. This web site has lots of information on it, it kinda blew my mind.

www.exploringautism.com

Another web site was given to me by Candace E. Salima. I like this one as well.

http://.neighborhoodandfriends.com

Candace was telling me that on this web site she has met a woman who is a doctor and she is trying to set up a schools in Utah that gear toward teaching parents and there children about autism and how to teach children with different levels of autism.

I have also found that these same doctors who have found the cause of autism are now trying to find a drug that will help those with autism. The hope is to cure it. Exploring autism will keep you updated on on the different findings. Great for parents and care givers.