Reach Your Child's Potential with Professional Insights
Most children thrive in environments where things are predictably organized and familiar. For children with special needs this is often a deal breaker in allowing them to function day by day. Here is one idea to visually support a child in the aftermath of a natural disaster even when you may not have your home [...]
Whew! I made it past another April. As an autistic I have a love/hate relationship with April – the AUTISM month. I love that increasingly more people over time have become aware of autism. I hate that Autism Awareness month contributes daily to many negative stereotypes of autism, most of it by people meaning to [...]
It was a beautiful day as I cheerily loaded my kids in the car to take my youngest son, Jake, to Occupational Therapy. He eagerly climbed his 7-year-old body into his car seat. Jake LOVED to “go see Amy,” his therapist, because there is an indoor gym area, lots of fun swings and large motor [...]
The wind chime is an exotic and beautiful instrument which has a gentle wavy movement and produces the most pleasant and calming sounds. Thanks to these qualities, it is an excellent first musical instrument to present to a newborn baby, toddlers and children from a range of different abilities as well as one that can [...]
Autism, while it is so much a part of me, it can also make some things harder. The same may be true for the children and adults that you work with who have other special needs. Some days I cope very well, in what for me can be a somewhat confusing, overstimulating world. Other days, [...]
I can distinctly remember being in my grade four classroom and sitting directly beside the window. Our school was very close to a fire and ambulance station, and every now and again the sirens would blare and an ambulance would zip by. I would look at the clock determined that any minute the office would [...]
If your child is receiving private occupational therapy (OT), the primary focus is typically what occurs in the clinic. Of equal importance, however is collaboration between your child’s occupational therapist and your child’s teacher. We have found that a direct classroom observation, followed by a joint meeting with teachers, parents and OT is invaluable for [...]
Proprioception is our body’s understanding of where it is in space. It is a sense that lets us know the position of our physical structure through receptors in our joints. We can stimulate or calm this sense through movement and through compression or stretching at the joints of the body. Reduce Stress Through Yoga Yoga [...]
As a professional in the field of autism, a parent and an autistic myself, I am being asked by fearful parents, in the wake of last week’s tragedy in Connecticut, if their child with autism who has meltdowns today might grow up to be a mass murder shooter tomorrow. First off, to quell your fears [...]
