Jacqueline Williams-Hines

Happy Holidays...I'm Baaaack!

Posted: 12/25/2008

Merry Christmas Dear Reader, My web site was unavailable for a little while, so let me update you. "Joshua, That's Sooo Slimming!" will be available soon.  It deals with the phenomenon known as "stimming" or auto or self-stimulation. This is often characterized by repeated motions, sounds or phrases and usually presents when the person with autism is experiencing anxiety or sensory overload.  My hopes is that its introduction to the public in another children's book will be fun and informative and I hope you like it!  I encourage everyone who has read a "Joshua" book to please log onto any online bookstore site such as http://www.Amazon.com   or www.Barnes&Noble.com and please submit a review.  Your feedback is important and can be very helpful in sharing with others living with autism or in just educating someone who has not been exposed to it.  With the current birth rates reported from The Center for Disease Control as being 1:150 (males affected 4:1 to their female counterparts), it is important that those living with autism understand that they are not invisible are are not alone.  Social inclusion is only viable when there is understanding.  That being said, from the Hines Family to yours, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanzaa and expressions of peace and love with regards to any other holiday being celebrated...and Happy New Year!