Building the Skills for School Readiness

• By: Laura Bonfante, BCBA Autism Home Support Services
• October 1st, 2017
• ABA, classroom, fall 2017 issue, school, social skills
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Parents get excited about school starting in the fall and all the new adventures their children will have. They also know starting school can be a shock for first-time students. Getting up early and out the door, a day of sitting still, lining up and switching activities on a schedule isn’t easy...

Autism Science Foundation Announces Expansion of the Autism Sisters Project – 3 New Grants Awarded to Search for the Female Protective Effect

• By: Autism Science Foundation
• October 1st, 2017
• diagnosis, fall 2017 issue, female, prevalence, research, siblings
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The Autism Science Foundation (ASF), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to catalyzing innovative autism research, announced the launch of three new multi-year research grants to expand the Autism Sisters Project at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and the Broad Institute in...

Overcoming Anxiety and Fear in Children and Teens

• By: Jed Baker, PhD Social Skills Training Project
• October 1st, 2017
• anxiety, cbt, cognitive behavioral therapy, fall 2017 issue, fear, therapy
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Study after study has shown that if you can get anxious individuals to gradually face their fears (a treatment called gradual exposure), their anxiety will decrease, and they will no longer be controlled by their fear. That is the science of treatment, to gradually face fears. But how do you get...