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.
1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism and Asperger’s Expanded and updated 2nd edition of the award-winning bestseller by Ellen Notbohm and Veronica Zysk Winner of Learning magazine’s Teacher’s Choice Award Read the Foreword by Dr. Temple Grandin “The front cover of this book promises 1001 great ideas, which an ambitious undertaking by [...]
My February newsletter is out, with an excerpt from my new book and links to two dozen more good reads.
On my Facebook page: Family has a nonverbal child whose vocal stimming has increased from occasional to nearly nonstop. Family and school know there is an unmet need but are unable to pinpoint. Child has been in intensive therapy for six years but shows little interest in anything. Anyone with similar experience have thoughts to [...]
The January-February issue Ancestry focuses on the work lives of our forebears. In Nice Work If You Can Get It, I discover that the amateur, unpaid genealogist of today had well-paid predecessors a century ago. We do it because we love it. There’s always one more elusive ancestor to track down, one more document to [...]
Out with the old and in with the new! I have six signed copies of the original edition of 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders to give to you before the second edition is released next month. Email your street address by 11:59 pm PST Friday, January 22 to [...]
