by Tamara | Apr 6, 2024 | Behaviors, Understanding behaviors
Autism Spectrum Disorder includes a broad range of capabilities and abilities within individuals. You have autistics who are able to live a fairly “normal” life of obtaining higher education, having a successful career and developing, and maintaining good...
by Tamara | Apr 1, 2024 | Inspiration, Parenting
April has had a special place in my heart since my son was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome (now part of Autism Spectrum Disorder) at age 4. Back then, the month focused on autism awareness, and now it has evolved to be more focused on autism acceptance. I think...
by Tamara | Mar 23, 2024 | Parenting
As parents, accepting your child’s autism diagnosis is challenging enough. Yet, when you have friends and family who reject your child’s autism diagnosis, it makes an already stressful situation much worse. Your family needs a lot of support and when you have extended...
by Tamara | Mar 13, 2024 | Getting Help, Treatments/Services
If your autistic child has verbal and/or other communications challenges, a Picture Exchange Communications System, also called PECS, could be a wonderful way to enhance how your child communicates. But what is PECS and how as a parent can you find it and someone to...
by Tamara | Feb 10, 2024 | Getting Help, Treatments/Services
Many autistic children struggle with eating. This can be due to sensory issues with food such as the texture, taste, smell or temperature. Others are more inflexible about what they will eat because of the way they think about food. Some autistic children have...
by Tamara | Jan 21, 2024 | IEP/School Services, School
Taking notes in class can really help improve grades and encourage your teen with ADHD and autism to stay engaged in learning. Yet, I don’t think our schools do a good enough job in teaching our teens this essential skill. It is especially important if your teen will...
by Tamara | Jan 15, 2024 | Behaviors, Understanding behaviors
As a parent of a child with ADHD, you may be confused as to why your child forgets so many things and seems easily distracted yet can then be so focused on certain activities for a long time. That is called hyperfocus. I’ve seen my son J have this at times when he is...
by Tamara | Dec 31, 2023 | Getting Help
For those who have autism, many have sensory issues of multiple kinds. But when is it something more than autism? When are these sensory issues themselves a condition called sensory processing disorder? My son J has ultra hearing, and it was very bad when he was...
