When the kids were much younger and I dreamed of going back to work, I kicked around the idea of going into the medical field. I wondered way back then about returning to school also – either in medicine or to be a therapist (as an OT or PT). I had also considered one day lookin...
autistic behaviors. I remember being so scared. I often joked that I was still waiting for my ‘autism manual’ to come in the mail. I was not a doctor or a therapist or a teacher. I was just a mom. A mom to a little boy that needed so much care. Autism was a mystery to me...
Lucas went through years of developmental therapy where he would sit with a trained therapist and play while he worked on his other skills like motor skills, language skills, and social-emotional skills. Even though he worked on play skills at therapy, I still feel like as a parent, a larg...
Basically what's going on here is "aversion therapy," in which a therapist tries to decrease the frequency of a behavior by making that behavior unpleasant. It's a dubious sort of treatment that has little rigorous scientific evidence to support it but has nonetheless been used for drug addi...
When I was first introduced to the world of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) over twenty years ago, I was impressed by the object nature of the therapy. I watched programs introduced and data taken in a variety of ways: tape on a therapist’s thigh, hash marks on paper, piles of cards...
or that self-sacrifice is a necessary component of love. Nadler illustrates the complexity, grief, and joy of living an unexpected life, all with the wisdom of a therapist, the heart of a loving parent, and the ingenuity of a queer woman who refuses to be shackled by cultural expectations...
Parents of autistic children and autistic adults continue to be excluded and derided. Hearing other autistic people’s experiences and sharing our voices is important for acceptance. April is Autism Acceptance Month, and this year’s theme is "Celebrating Differences." ...
This is an essential part of the therapy, as most of the adolescents have been sent to previous therapies with goals set by adults. The therapist can help the patient to set personal goals by means of observations made and by asking if the patient recognizes what happens during the session ...
I wondered way back then about returning to school also – either in medicine or to be a therapist (as an OT or PT). I had also considered one day looking at advocating professionally. I’ve advocated for my son for two decades, but none of that work ever resulted in a paycheck. ...
(ADOS-G)51; these assessments were conducted by a psychiatrist and a clinical speech therapist. Based on the criteria for SOD52, the children with ASD were divided into two groups based on the presence (AS-SOD) or absence of SOD (AS-NoSOD). Speech acquisition was considered typical if ...