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,...
Few stretches feel as urgent as the weeks right after a young child starts showing signs of autism. Parents want to do something now, while their child is small...
A new autism diagnosis usually leaves parents holding a thick evaluation packet and a long list of questions. Most of those questions are not about therapy. They are about...
If you have started typing “signs of autism” into your phone at 1 a.m., you are already doing the hard part: paying attention. Getting an autism diagnosis in Georgia...