Onlinecolleges.net blog cites Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew as #6 on a list titled The 20 Essential Books About Special Education: “Special education professionals dealing with autism spectrum students will greatly appreciate this comprehensive, sensitive look at what life is like with the disorders. By getting into the minds and experiences [...]
All-inclusive: how parents and teachers can encourage sports participation in children with autism is the subject of my November newsletter. Learn how impairments in autism can affect ability to participate in PE or group sports, and how teachers, coaches and parents can modify their instruction in a manner that allows the child with autism to [...]
The email from a parenting website trumpeted its last member survey in boldface type: “The 20 Most-Hated Baby Names.” On any given day, it would have been only one of dozens of headlines that cross my desk, most blown off without a second glance. This one, with its deliberately incendiary choice of words, set off [...]
Starting today, I will tweet a quote a day from The Autism Trail Guide until I bore myself or someone tells me/begs me to stop. Follow me on over to Twitter.
What the heck is a Something? Well, that will be up to you. But here’s what these Something are not: not “resolutions,” not in any particular order, not any more or any less interesting or compelling on July 18 or October 7 as on January 1. Not simplistic nor complex, unless you make them so. [...]
A huge thank you to our translator Jelena Tomljanovic for giving us Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew in Croatian. Click here to read.
With many thanks to translator Jelena Tomljanovic, a Croatian translation of Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew is now available. Click here. And coming soon, Jelena’s translation of Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew.
Last week Mark and I attended our last-ever back-to-school parent meeting. Bryce, our youngest child, is a senior. We’re a light year away from the first year following his identification as a child with autism, when he attended a four-days-a-week supported integrated preschool class. Each Thursday he would greet the teacher with, “One more day, [...]
New on the Children’s Voice website and just in time for school, my most recent column, Creating Positive Partnerships outlines the attitudes and actions necessary for parents and school staff to work together in a manner that creates the best environment possible for a child’s success. Excerpt: Here’s a statement that demonstrates my remarkable grasp [...]
Parents of teens, this is for you. Parents of younger kids, they will turn into teens before you know it. And if you’re just a big kid yourself, you might want to stay with me here. Rare is the parent who has never wondered what their child will grow up to be. Rare I am [...]
