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Unique Collaboration for Youth with ASD
Despite the abundance of supports available today to help young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), many youth are still struggling behaviorally. In most cases families do everything they are advised to do by professionals, but their children are still getting suspended from school, causing...
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What You Need to Know Before Your Child Transitions to School
Although it is common knowledge that transitions are hard for most children with special needs, transitions can also be difficult for their parents, especially the transition from services in the home to services in the school. Under the age of three years, children are cocooned in their own...
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Steps to Empower Families to Access Early Intervention
In my six years as Autism Resource Specialist in the Center for Children with Special Needs at Floating Hospital for Children in Tufts Medical Center in Boston, I have met with hundreds of families in the moments after their young child receives an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. Although...
