I am a 35 years old female that has autism or aspergers syndrome that is being treated mean in psych evaluations and IQ tests the way I am treated mean in...
Hello all, www.lookingupautism.org Just a quick note to say that the latest issue of my 40-page monthly international autism newsletter, Looking Up, is out...
Catching Kids Before They Fall: How to Help Children with Sensory Processing Disorder Presented by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A., author of The Out-of-Sync Child...
... Merry Christmas gang and thanks! I'm moving under a roof. Yep, in a manger. Finally a place for me and the kids <smile> Five horses on either side of...
We spent 3 yrs 3 months doing ABA under four consultants (we'd been reassigned a 5th just as we were quitting), and it did everything we were told it would NOT...
ABA just means Applied Behavioral Analysis. It is just the applied side of what is known as Behavioral Analyais, or Behavioral Science started by Skinner. ...
Thanks Penelope for that testimonial. It important because it is probably the most common testimonial yet folks won't usually write about it but chose to...
Tom, Thanks for sharing. I'm very interested in knowing more experiences from children and adults on the spectrum who speak (I don't like the term "verbal"...
Thanks for the reply.! I do know what it means. ;) We had four consultants, one from a Lovaas replication site, I think all of them had VB experience, and...
... What you describe here is one of the big stumbling blocks of many ABA programs, especially the consultants. Most of these people have undergrad degrees in...
I am sorry to hear about the splinter skills you encountered after your ABA interventions. I have found the floortime/DIR model to be quite rewarding. It...
Thanks for sharing! I should have included a list of everything we've done. We tried a year of Floortime during our last year of ABA, thinking it was the...
Going to the Heart of Autism More Highlights from the RDI® Program's 3rd Annual International Conference (Part 2) Our Goal: Quality of Life - Dr. Gutstein ...
I was driving a couple of weeks ago when I heard a woman named Lynne Thompson on the radio (I've never heard of her before that day. I was at a stoplight and...
Thank you so much, Penny. I sure hope that Tom, even indirectly, is setting up an art studio, somewhere...(the convenors of this studio being, of course,...
Thanks Penny for your testimonial on ABA. It's important for parents to hear it from other parents. I told them years ago and I'm sure many came to the same...
Tom, Happy Holidays and New Year! You manger sounds cozy.....enjoy ;) Carolyn ... Merry Christmas gang and thanks! I'm moving under a roof. Yep, in a manger....
... Thanks Carolyn and I hope all is going well with you. ... Well...that didn't last long. The gal that runs the place told me I couldn't smoke in my room....
The failure of behaviorism is thinking we are functional robots. We're human and so are the auties. What's most important to humans that auties lack?...
The failure of behaviorism is thinking we are functional robots. We're human and so are the auties. What's most important to humans that auties lack?...
I am very glad you have found an approach that works for you and your daughter and your family. That is the most important thing. I am glad that you are...
Let your voice be heard, ...not just in the United States of America, but all over the world, in all countries, as autism (and all of the autistic spectrum)...
Exactly Brian, I concur wholeheartedly and am part of an advocacy to reform the United Nations. Human Rights includes men. Male auties not only should be...
Exactly, Tom! Even in Iraq, how many autistic individuals (and their families) were subdued or disposed of, under the "Butcher of Baghdad"? How many have had...
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