Welcome to the annual autism awareness author get-together. A gaggle of authors are taking part in a Facebook group hop and you can find out more by visiting my Facebook group and finding today’s post – facebook.com/groups/Rjscott (I will pin it to the top 🙂 ) This year’s theme is gardening, flowers, sensory horticulture, and each FB page stop will have a short post from the author, plus competitions with prizes ranging…
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Autism Awareness Blog Hop – Links To Posts
To follow the blog hop, click on the links below! April 1 – RJ Scott
Autism Blog Hop Winners!
Congratulations to the winners of my giveaway for the Autism Awareness Blog Hop $20 Amazon Gift Card – Jennifer Shannon $20 Redbubble Gift Card – Lisa Klemmensen Signed copy of Boy Banned – Olga Lambert Signed copy of Texas Family – Ceri Sell Contact Rachel at rjscott.team@gmail.com to collect your prizes!
Autism – A different kind of normal
My autism fact – The term “stimming” is short for self-stimulatory behavior and is sometimes also called “stereotypic” behavior. In a person with autism, stimming usually refers to specific behaviors that include hand- flapping, rocking, spinning, or repetition of words and phrases. The Great Lego Debacle When I decided on a theme for this year’s autism blog hop, I had so many ideas for what to write, but as the…
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Autism Awareness Month 2019
April 2 is Autism Awareness Day, a subject very close to my heart, and for the 6th year in a row myself and some wonderful authors will be taking part in a blog hop to raise awareness, you can find the schedule and links to their pages below. The theme this year is Childhood toys and each post will contain a fact about autism and a giveaway! The blog kicks…
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Autism Awareness Auction – Now Open for Bidding!
The sixth annual Autism Awareness auction is live on the blog facebook page! Head over there now to start bidding. I’m so happy with the listings that were donated this year. There are three types of bids… Bidding item: There is a starting bid listed and you bid on these items throughout the month. At 1201am on May 1st, the highest bidder will win that item. Flat bid item:…
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Hopes and Dreams
Hello and welcome to my post for the Autism Blog Hop. The hop is now in it’s fifth year, and I am so pleased that my author friends have jumped in and supported me with this whole thing. Thank you to Rachel as well who has taken a lot of the administrative parts from me this year. Which leaves me with just having to write the blog post for my…
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Purple Day – Epilepsy
50 Million people have epilepsy world wide. It is estimated that 1 in 100 people have epilepsy. In 50% of cases the cause is unknown. “Epilepsy is a brain disorder marked by recurring seizures, or convulsions. It affects a fifth to a third of people who have autism, compared to an estimated 1 to 2 percent of the general population (Spence 2009). The autism-epilepsy overlap appears to be most common among people who…
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#RainbowSnippets March 17
Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (snippets are 6 sentences long–one for each colour in the Pride flag). You can find all the snippets by clicking here. The snippet this week is from Boy Banned (picked by Rachel as RJ…
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Autism Awareness Month 2018
April 2 is Autism Awareness Day, a subject very close to my heart, and for the month of April some wonderful authors will be taking part in a blog hop, you can find the schedule and links to their pages below. The theme this year is Hopes & Dreams and each post will contain a fact about autism and a giveaway! The blog kicks off with my post which can…
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