Sight Words
Below is a copy of our Lesson Plan sample in Sight Words. Read below on how to use sight words to help you in the…...
Behaviors
Disciplining: Time Out
It’s a common misconception that time outs work. They don’t! While they may give a temporary satisfaction to the exasperated parent or teacher, time outs…...
Disciplining: Quiet Rooms
It is a sad fact that many autism schools – and some special ed programs within regular schools – use what are euphemistically called ‘quiet…...
Disciplining: Disciplining
Discipline is a much misunderstood concept. One often hears people talking about children needing more discipline, yet children that come from homes where punishment is…...
How conventionally grown food can hurt your child (hormones, antibiotics, chemicals) and how to afford healthy food
It has taken us a generation as a society to come to grips with the fact that the mass production of food – which began…...
Hidden sugars and other junk
It is both surprising and a bit depressing to realize exactly how much sugar is loaded into the mass-produced foods that form many of our…...
Healthy alternatives to sugar and why they are important for your child’s mental health
Anything that is good for your child’s mental health is automatically good for your mental health. And of course, the reverse is true as well…....
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How to wean from junk food to food that enables functional behavior
Junk food causes and makes worth a lot of the behaviors that are the most challenging. A perfect storm of ingredients that all jangle the…...
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Strategies for eating greens
Humans are hard wired to hunt and to gather. So become a hunter-gatherer. Start spending as much time as possible in local wild areas. Buy…...
Eating Disorders: Fear of Food
Goal To expand the child’s diet through games and activities designed to show the child that food is not something to be scared of. Why…...
Where and how to do therapy
In a word: Outside! And if you can’t go outside because of one reason or another, then is it possible to bring nature inside? Why…...
What questions to ask your therapist
You need to know that your therapist is willing to become educated if they don’t know something that is useful! So, the first question to…...
How to find your child’s interest
We talked at length on the previous module how observation and physically following your child gives you all the necessary clues for finding out what…...
Socially inappropriate behaviors: Is your child a runner? Does he run away and not stop when asked to?
Obviously, having a child that is a ‘runner’ is a major challenge. The danger aspect is self evident and the seeming absolute unawareness of any…...
Spotting your child’s triggers
Knowing your child’s meltdown triggers is all about observation. Many of these triggers will be sensory. So try to see day by day what sensory…...
How do you handle it when it happens and how to recover the child as quickly as possible
Remember that autism meltdowns are not bad behaviors. They are responses to sensory and emotional stress and also sometimes actual physical pain and discomfort. So…...
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Why do kids meltdown
Understanding the neurological causes of autism meltdowns puts you half way towards finding solutions for them and eventually helping the child to move beyond them…...
Meltdowns and how to grow beyond them
No doubt, one of the hardest facets of autism – both for the autist and for the neuro-typical parent or caregiver – is the frequency…...
Money Part 1
Goal: The long term goal of this module is to teach the child to understand and be able to use money in the real world…....
Money Part 2
Goal: The long term goal of this module is to teach the child to understand and be able to use money in the real world…....
Money Part 3
Goal: The long term goal of this module is to teach the child to understand and be able to use money in the real world…....
Money Part 5
Goal: The long term goal of this module is to teach the child to understand and be able to use money in the real world…....
Obsessiv Behaviors: Inflexibility in the parent
There is a fundamental fact as an autism parent. Your child’s autism is not going to go away. You are not going to fix it…...
Obsessive Behaviors: Inflexibility in the child
It’s a common misconception, that autistic people need a rigidly structured set of rules around which to plan their day or meltdown and chaos will…...