On April 28, I’ll be speaking at the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, one session for parents and one for professionals. It’s free and you can register online.
Serious question: how many people participated in the formation of your child’s autism diagnosis? When my son was identified 14 years ago, a team of half a dozen early-intervention teachers and therapists spent three months conducting multiple observations in both home and preschool settings, collecting and analyzing the data, interviewing me, our pediatrician and others [...]
Listen in as I visit with Stan Goldberg in the Autism Briefing Room and talk about Bryce’s success in high school sports, the “olden days” of autism identification 14 years ago (what’s changed and what hasn’t), the role of parental support in the classroom, and the growing need for school-wide teaching of social-emotional intelligence.
For our Vietnamese-speaking friends, a link to a nice summary of a number of the 1001 Great Ideas.
Old stereotypes are hard to kill, but one that richly deserves to die is the notion that dental visits are torture, something to be feared, dreaded and avoided. While the ideal of “painless dentistry” may not be 100% realistic in every instance, 21st century methods and practices are making dental visits tolerable and comfortable, even [...]
For children of all ages who have ever loved – or yearned for – a tricycle comes my story of a grandmother’s century-old remembrance of a heart’s desire unfulfilled, in Ancestry magazine’s final print issue. Read Tricycle Dreams.
