Teaching Pronouns to Kids with Autism & Avoiding Pronoun Reversal
Many children with autism have a difficult time teaching pronouns to kids with autism. For instance, if you tell a child, “Hang up your backpack” that child may say “Hang up your backpack” while he’s hanging up his own backpack. It gets to be a bad game of who’s on first. So today I’m going […]
Why Teaching Carrier Phrases is a Bad Idea
For those of you who know me well, you know that I’m not a fan of teaching carrier phrases to kids with autism. So today, I’m going to tell you why.https://youtu.be/tWR7rR5zDscI’ve never done a full blog on carrier phrases, but my blog on teaching Timmy to talk in four word utterances where I talk a […]
Should We Use Non-Verbal or Non-Vocal?
It’s been almost 2 decades since my first-born son, Lucas starting showing signs of autism at the age of 21 months and that’s when my husband, Charles (who is a Emergency Medicine physician) first mentioned the possibility of autism.I was horrified at the thought of an autism diagnosis and in denial about Lucas’ delays telling […]
Using Non Verbal vs Non Vocal
It’s been almost 2 decades since my first-born son, Lucas starting showing signs of autism at the age of 21 months and that’s when my husband, Charles (who is a Emergency Medicine physician) first mentioned the possibility of autism. I was horrified at the thought of an autism diagnosis and in denial about Lucas’ delays […]
Autism and Language Development: My #1 Technique to Get ANY Child Talking More!
My #1 Technique to Get ANY Child Talking More!My weekly video blogs are usually for autism professionals and parents, but I have a little secret on autism and language development. All the techniques I talk about work great for any child even a child without disabilities. You see all of the strategies I recommend are […]