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Emergency Readiness for Autistic Individuals: Evidence-Based Application of Visual Schedules
Individuals with autism often experience heightened sensitivity to sensory input, difficulty with abstract concepts, and communication barriers, which can complicate emergency responses. Research indicates that children with autism have higher rates of emergency service utilization than their...
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Getting Ready for Summer Camp: Tips for Parents
While kids prepare and look forward to the fun of summer break, as a parent you may be feeling stressed about months of hectic schedules, impromptu events, and later bedtimes. Let’s face it, for parents, summer’s promise of fun can quickly become a difficult and stressful time. For...
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The Importance of a Visual Schedule
It’s half past eight in the morning. Jan, a 10-year-old boy with ADHD, wakes up. His phone plays a nice, calm melody to wake him from his slumber. When the music stops, he looks at the screen of his phone to see a picture in black and white with a little man sitting on his bed and is preparing to...
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Summer Break and Skills Development: The Heat Is On
You work hard to make sure your child is progressing toward his goals and to effectively manage an interdisciplinary team and your child’s Individualized Education Program (IEP) during the course of the year. That work requires significant resources (fiscal, emotional, and temporal), the...
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Use Social Apps to Keep Skills Sharp Over the Summer
Summertime can be a welcome break from school for many students, who will cram as much sleeping in and having fun as they can into a few short months before the school year resumes. But the intrinsic break in routine can also spell disaster for some kids on the Autism spectrum or with other social...
