The school bus is often the hardest twenty minutes of an autistic child’s day, and it is the part parents have the least control over. Preparing well means three...
Your autistic child refuses simple requests for a reason. Usually, the refusal makes the request go away. Behavior analysts call this escape. It shows up in seven common patterns....
Halloween and autism can absolutely go together, but the night usually goes best with a plan. The most helpful steps are previewing what will happen, choosing a costume your...
Most throwing comes down to one of four reasons: ending a demand, getting a fast reaction, reaching a preferred item, or the sensory feedback of the throw itself. For...
You pick your child up, or the bus drops them off, and for a few minutes everything is fine. Then something small happens, a snack request, a shoe that...
It sounds like such a small ask. Five people, one direction, four seconds. Then you’re in a rented studio at 4pm on a Saturday, your daughter has one shoe...
Almost every parent who comes to me about bedtime has already tried melatonin, or has a bottle in a cupboard they feel uncertain about. The questions are always the...
If you have watched your child bring food back up after every meal and been told it is reflux, and nothing has changed in a year, you are in...
One of the questions I hear often from families, including those we support in Denver, is what to say when a stranger comments on an autistic child’s behavior in...
“Put your shoes on” gets a meltdown. “I see one shoe still under the couch” gets a kid who is dressed five minutes later, without ever being asked directly....