Everyone feels useful and productive through a job, but for the autism community, where nearly 80% of them are unemployed, it can be hard to break through that barrier and enjoy that feeling. Ann Marie Sullivan’s company Spectrum Works seeks to be that bridge between unemployment and productive employment for the autism community.
As the reigning Miss Tampa and the runner-up to Miss Florida, Rachel Barcellona has created a platform for herself to positively share about her own journey with autism. But as a child, Rachel
often felt like an alien from outer space who was sent to visit an Earth middle school. She shares her beautiful story about how she’s used beauty pageants to become a confident ambassador for her community.
High Functioning Autism: Can the Verbal Behavior Approach Help? A friend of mine, who is a teacher, recently asked me, “would a kindergarten student who is on the autism spectrum with severe tantrum behaviors, but has strong academic skills, be a good candidate for verbal behavior? We have a child in our building and I'm…
How long should you go hiding spinach in brownies just to get a picky eater to eat some kind of vegetable? How much milk or juice should a child consume in a day? At some point, baked goods cannot be the only way your child eats a fruit or vegetable and a quart of juice a day isn’t optimal for many reasons, but making that transition into healthy eating for children with autism is a careful process.
Today's video blog is all about autism grandparents and some of the challenges and the unique role of being a grandparent of a child with autism. It's not just the parents that raise a child. Often, the grandparents do too. So that's why I want to talk about how autism grandparents can help their grandchildren with autism.
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When a child with autism begins to speak for the first time, it can be tempting for parents or professionals to rush ahead and teach them adjectives, verbs, and phrases as fast as they can. Building the speech foundation for a child with autism must be done carefully over time, so today I want to lay out some common mistakes you should avoid because they actually disrupt speech patterns.
Receptive Identification & Receptive Language Skills for Kids with Autism A lot of children with autism or signs of autism get stuck when it comes to learning receptive language abilities, such as touching body parts or touching a banana out of several pictures. I got a lot of really great advice on receptive identification over…
Under stressful circumstances, or even under regular circumstances, wanting to escape real life by diving into too much social media, movies, or even substance abuse can cause harm to relationships, jobs, and self-development. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy was created from behavior analyses by behavior analysts as a way to help you reground yourself in your daily life.
Video modeling is a powerful, evidence-based tool that can help children learn to talk. I had a client who I'm going to talk to you about whose name is Kurt and he went from having 10 words in two hours to having a hundred words in two hours using this powerful tool: video modeling. Using…
It is undeniable that COVID-19 has had an impact on public education, but how exactly does that impact IEPs and school resources for children with autism? Gary Mayerson talks about the CARES Act and other recent policies and their ripple effect on the free access to public education guaranteed to every American child.
