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First I want to say thanks to all of you who followed the Chevy link, it worked, see below:
NEW YORK, NY (June 3, 2008) – Autism Speaks and Chevrolet today announced that the Help Chevy Help Autism campaign, held during Autism Awareness Month in April, resulted in Chevy meeting its fundraising goal of donating $1 million to support the work of the nation's largest autism advocacy organization.During the Help Chevy Help Autism promotion, more than 58,000 visitors to autismspeaks.org and chevy.com took a free virtual test drive of the all-new Chevy Malibu, the 2008 North American Car of the Year. Those who participated in the virtual test drive were offered a free 30-day online trial of XM Satellite Radio. Chevrolet committed to a minimum contribution of $500,000, but every virtual test drive taken got Chevrolet closer to its goal of donating up to $1 million to Autism Speaks to support its mission of increasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research.
NEW YORK, NY (June 3, 2008) – Autism Speaks and Chevrolet today announced that the Help Chevy Help Autism campaign, held during Autism Awareness Month in April, resulted in Chevy meeting its fundraising goal of donating $1 million to support the work of the nation's largest autism advocacy organization.During the Help Chevy Help Autism promotion, more than 58,000 visitors to autismspeaks.org and chevy.com took a free virtual test drive of the all-new Chevy Malibu, the 2008 North American Car of the Year. Those who participated in the virtual test drive were offered a free 30-day online trial of XM Satellite Radio. Chevrolet committed to a minimum contribution of $500,000, but every virtual test drive taken got Chevrolet closer to its goal of donating up to $1 million to Autism Speaks to support its mission of increasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research.
Things are going well in the Cretsinger household. We had a busy weekend this weekend. Grandma came for a visit and mom had a 10k race on Sunday. So Dad and Grandma got a chance to go out to eat and spend some time together on Saturday because mom wanted to stay in and go to bed early to rest up for the big race on Saturday. Thanks Grandma for all your support through the busy weekend!
Tyler is doing an AMAZING job of eating on his own. We also have went a few days w/o having to provide any supports for him during meals/snacks,i.e. usually we keep him occupied with books, cars, etc. while he's eating so that he stays regulated and continues to eat. He's doing so well at not only staying regulated but also feeding himself. He's really been more calm lately recently, we can see it in all areas. At the dinner table obviously, while watchign a video like you saw in the clip, but also after bath time he's just been hanging out in bed with us and he seems very well regulated and calm.
Other than that we are just trying to work on new schedules. The schedule for the study changed this week int hat we now do 1 home visit and 1 community visit. The community visit is a bit tricky for us due to commutes, time restraints, etc. so Carrie and I are working through that best we can. We are also trying to figure out how the new schedule will be when this part of teh study ends and the new part picks up. Lots of coordination going on between school district services, work schedules, study schedules, etc. HOpefully Tyler will take it all in stride.
We are looking forward to family visiting this weekend to learn more about autism and how it specifically relates to Tyler, etc. There will be plenty of time for questions, so please feel free to bring as many questions as you'd like. Thank you Carrie for doing this for us!
