OMG! The Wiggles! (http://www.thewiggles.com.au/index2.html) You are so lucky because the Wiggles are now popular in the US. When Charlie was three, they weren't, but his day care had a video and he LOVED them.
I credit the Wiggles with quite a lot of Charlie's recovery, and I'm not the only one. Many parents of Autistic children find their brand of entertainment is really helpful for children with PDD. They are colorful and funy and don't talk down to the kid and the songs are awesome and don't make a parent want to chew her own ears off.
I even wrote an article for Autism Asberger Digest about them in 2003 and we got to meet them. They are really nice. And, er, handsome. Which again, as a mother, helps!
Seriously though. Their songs involve a lot of matching movement to words, and Autistic kids really respond to it.
Charlie started talking because of the Wiggles. With an Australian accent, but still...talking.
Re: no
I credit the Wiggles with quite a lot of Charlie's recovery, and I'm not the only one. Many parents of Autistic children find their brand of entertainment is really helpful for children with PDD. They are colorful and funy and don't talk down to the kid and the songs are awesome and don't make a parent want to chew her own ears off.
I even wrote an article for Autism Asberger Digest about them in 2003 and we got to meet them. They are really nice. And, er, handsome. Which again, as a mother, helps!
Seriously though. Their songs involve a lot of matching movement to words, and Autistic kids really respond to it.
Charlie started talking because of the Wiggles. With an Australian accent, but still...talking.