Balancing Autism Reinforcement and Demands for Your Client or Child With Autism
In this week’s video blog, I want to share with you a useful analogy I use to examine how we work with our clients or children with autism:https://youtu.be/3nYUMMk2N5MI’ve been working with children with autism for almost 2 decades as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst. Early on in my career when I would see children with […]
Autism Lessons From an Autism Mom, Behavior Analyst and Best-Selling Author
My mission is to improve the lives of children with autism around the world. One of my goals this year is to record and publish a new video blog each and every week so I can share my stories case studies get on a few soapboxes share some mistakes I see and give answers to […]
How Can I Get My Child or Client with Autism to Stop Stimming?
Have you ever been to a lecture where the material is way too easy or completely over your head? If you get in these situations what do you do? I bet you might doodle, play with your hair, or scroll through your Facebook newsfeed on your phone. This is the equivalent of a child with […]
Autism Tantrums: How to Resolve Problem Behaviors
I often get questions like this: What should I do if my child or client displays problem behavior (screams/argues/bites/kicks/flops to the ground) when a demand is placed (take a bath/do homework/go to bed)?The answer to the question is similar regardless of the functioning level of the child, the type of problem behavior or the demand. […]
Autism and Pain: Teaching Children to Indicate When They Are in Pain
My video blog last week was on ruling out medical issues before treating problem behaviors in children with autism. So please watch last week’s blog first before this video blog on autism and pain if you haven’t done so already. This week I’m going to answer a question I get often: “How do you teach […]