sometimes combined with psychotherapy. Sleep Education explains: “These methods are used to help you identify attitudes and beliefs that hinder your sleep. These negative thoughts involve worries and stress that keep you awake. A therapist helps you process your ...
neurologist, psychiatrist, speech therapist, and other professionals who diagnose children with ASD. The team members will conduct a thorough neurological assessment and in-depth cognitive and language testing. Because hearing problems can cause behaviors that could be mistaken for ASD, children with del...
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 addic...
The director of ATN for twelve years, is, incredibly, a speech therapist! That says everything you need to know about ATN’s commitment to helping medically affected autistic kids. The vast majority of ATN research is redundant, dated or useless, telling us what we already know. For 12 yrs...
Social Skills Therapist As theautism spectrum disorder(ASD) diagnosis has become more common, a sort of industry has grown around teaching social skills to children and adults. There is no official certification for social skills therapists. Thus, social skills practitioners come from a wide range ...
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...
In 1970, my generation were teens. We all had the measles and we all have life long natural immunity that we were able to protect our infants with. We had at that time true herd immunity. While health officials cry about how everyone must be vaccinated in order to protect infants who ar...