Teaching Self-Care Skills to Children with Autism | Stuck Series Part 4
Teaching Self-Care Skills to Children with Autism | Stuck Series Part 4The fourth area where people get stuck is self care. In this five-part stuck series, I want to talk about the five areas that I see parents and professionals get the most stuck. In Part 1 I talked about assessing language when a…
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Improving Conversation Skills in Children with Autism | Stuck Series Part 3
Improving Conversation Skills in Children with Autism | Stuck Series Part 3The third area where parents and professionals often feel stuck when working with a child or client with autism is with getting kids who are talking to get conversation skills and be conversational.. And that is a big jump.…
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Receptive Language Skills: Teaching Following Directions to Kids with Autism | Stuck Series Part 2
The second area where parents and professionals often feel stuck when working with a child or client with autism is in the area of teaching receptive language skills. Receptive skills involve a person learning to follow directions. At the beginning for children with little to no language those…
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Autism Language Assessment: Getting a Child Talking from Nonverbal | Stuck Series Part 1
Parents and professionals working with either kids and young adults diagnosed with autism or who have signs of autism will often come to a point where they feel stuck. This could be because of a regression that child has or maybe a chronic lack of progress in any area of development. As an autism…
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Autism Testing & Autism Treatment Recommendations with Dr. James Coplan
As parents or professionals, most of us have been involved in the autism diagnosis process at least once, but do we really know how autism is actually diagnosed and what does the testing process really look like?
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The 4 Functions of Behavior in Applied Behavior Analysis
Most people in the ABA community know that there are 4 functions of behavior. However, we usually only hear and talk about 3 of the functions of behavior. The fourth function that usually isn't discussed is behaviors related to pain or stress, which in technical terms is called automatic negative…
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Autism and Stress Management: Reducing Stress for Autism Parents
All parents in the autism world deal with tons of stress. It can be very overwhelming. A lot of times it can be difficult to find ways to reduce stress in our lives. I know, I've been there and I'm still there as both a parent and as a professional. So today we're going to talk about autism and…
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Regressive Autism: Is Your Child Losing Skills or Stuck? Here’s What You Can Do
Regressive autism is both heartbreaking and confusing. Whether you have a young child who is just starting to show signs of autism, used to say some words and now lost them or used to wave and now doesn't, or even an older child with a diagnosis of autism that regresses in some areas, it is very…
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How to Teach a Nonverbal Child to Start Talking
As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, I know how important language is for children with autism or signs of autism. I’ve worked with many nonverbal children both in person and through my online courses, and have figured out what works and what doesn’t when teaching a toddler to talk. These same…
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Signs of Developmental Delay Bring Parents Into Autism Denial
When you start seeing signs of developmental delay, it's easy to think it could be autism. You may go into denial as I did many years ago. Maybe you've talked to family members who say things like he's just a little late talking and he'll catch up. Don't worry. Maybe you see red flags, but then…
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