Held Back or Kicked Out of Daycare or Preschool?
Hearing your toddler was kicked out of daycare can feel devastating—but it’s more common than parents realize. Research shows 1 in 6 children with autism are expelled from daycare or preschool before kindergarten. Just like not all screen time is equal, not all daycare settings are equal. Sometimes expulsions happen because of behavior, communication delays, […]
Pairing: The Key to Turning Things Around for Kids with Autism
Whenever a child has problem behaviors it is most likely due to the demands being too high or reinforcement being too low. Any problem behavior can be analyzed in the same way. If we have a child who is falling to the ground and crying, we can look at that and we could say, “Okay, […]
What Language Should You Teach to Young Children With Autism in Bilingual Families?
Many of you have seen my videos of Chino, who I started working with in 2010, when he was just 20-21 months old. He made amazing progress and he is now in early elementary school with little support and he is fully conversational. In fact, he’s bilingual in Spanish and English, as this is what […]
Should Parents Be in the Therapy Room or Waiting Room?
When Lucas was two years old, before his diagnosis of autism, we took him to speech therapy sessions weekly at our local hospital and the speech therapist that worked with him was great. She really taught me a lot. I was allowed and encouraged to be in the therapy room. They also had an option […]
Autism and Screen Time: Why I Wouldn’t Stop Screen Time
I recently got a question from a speech pathologist on one of my private Facebook groups about autism and screen time. She asked how she could support a family in reducing or eliminating screen time for their two-year-old with autism. They were watching up to four hours of TV a day.Before I get into my […]