Diagnosing Autism During COVID19 Pandemic | Interview with Dr. Catherine Lord
https://youtu.be/191ZRdduqTo COVID-19 has certainly altered every aspect of our lives, and diagnosing autism was no different. Even though lack of contact and masks made making a diagnosis harder to do, continuing to diagnose autism during COVID was of paramount importance. I talked with Dr. Catherine Lord, a very well-known researcher in the autism world, as […]
Making ABA More Compassionate with Celia Heyman
https://youtu.be/InQdXRQ0pMQ Celia Heyman is a Board-Certified Behavioral Analyst, pursuing her doctorate, and fellow autism mom who advocated for her son to get the best compassionate ABA services to help him reach his fullest potential. Celia’s son was diagnosed with autism in 2004 after she noticed he wasn’t talking as much as his older sibling. He […]
Home Based ABA for Autism | Interview with Amy M.
https://youtu.be/PZsCkGfsWUw I met Amy M. over 20 years ago in pre-Facebook days on an old listserv that doesn’t exist anymore. We connected almost immediately when we realized that we both had sons named Lucas who had been diagnosed within months of each other, and they had similar diagnoses of PDD-NOS. Amy was still trying to […]
Autism and Medical Issues: How Medical Issues Impact Problem Behavior
https://youtu.be/80w_AZ1I8pk Most of us have experience with autism and medical issues but what do you do if you have a child who doesn’t communicate and you think they might be in pain? Some children might bite when they’re in distress, and other children might become aggressive. But without the language to tell us how they […]
How BCBA Autism Mom Jennifer N. Helped Her Children with Autism
In rapid succession, Jennifer N.’s four children, ages 13, 8, and 3-year-old twins, were all diagnosed with autism. To compound her situation, she was living in Holland, where at the time there was only one BCBA in the entire country. Hear how she navigated this rough beginning to become a BCBA herself, and how she successfully launched all four of her children into adulthood.