Autism is identified in roughly 1 in 37 eight-year-olds in Utah, which means a lot of families in the Salt Lake Valley are quietly doing the same thing: driving...
A grandmother in our Provo caseload took custody of her grandson a few months ago after a family crisis left no other option. She had raised three children of...
Roughly 60 percent of American teenagers have used a conversational AI chatbot, and nearly half of those users report at least one interaction that troubled them. Those figures come...
A dad called me on a Tuesday afternoon, mortified. His seven-year-old had pulled his pants down in the middle of a busy grocery store, a stranger had said something...
One of our older clients, a soon-to-be sixteen-year-old, has started talking about wanting a part-time job. His mom pulled me aside after an ABA therapy session, not to ask...
I still remember the first time a family from Salt Lake City told me their son refused to leave his bedroom during a school fire drill. He was not...
A parent sat across from me at Little Champs ABA not long ago and said, “He reads at a sixth-grade level, but he still can’t tell me why his...
Most stranger danger lessons were built around a single scenario: a stranger, a car, a park. That scenario almost never matches how risk actually shows up for autistic tweens...
A few months back, a mom in Columbus told me her son had quit three different activities before age eight, soccer, Cub Scouts, and a beginner guitar class, and...
Puberty and autism can intersect in ways that catch even well-prepared parents off guard. The body changes on its own timeline, but for an autistic child, the sensory shifts,...