It Starts with Feelings: Supporting Emotion Regulation and Mental Health in Young Children with ASDs

• By: Shana Nichols, PhD ASPIRE Center for Learning and Development
• October 1st, 2012
• cognitive behavioral therapy, coping skills, early intervention, emotion regulation, emotional intelligence, mental health, self-regulation, social skills, young children
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As part of comprehensive ASD treatment, the overarching goal that must be kept in sight for all learners is a healthy quality of life. This approach to intervention begins at the moment of diagnosis or before, and continues far into late adulthood, the frontiers of which we currently know little...