What to do if your kid doesn’t fit in
Melissa helped out on this article http://www.sheknows.com/parenting/articles/970475/if-your-child-is-different If your child doesn’t fit in, help him find ways to be OK with being different.
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What to do if a group home is in your child’s future?
Ann Wilson @fxxxxxxxxxxxm writes, “I have been told to look at grp homes for my son, nobody wants to report on things like that.” Let us start off by saying that whenever possible, we like to relate our situations and decisions as parents of special needs kids back to neurotypical parents because parenting is what … Read more
Seven Tips For Helping Your Child With Autism Take Their Medicine | L.A. Parent
LA Parent talks to us about one of the most impossible tasks a parent can do – Giving a child with autism a pill. http://www.laparent.com/article/seven-tips-for-helping-your-child-with-autism-take-their-medicine.html Here’s a simple visual to remember: Giving a child with autism medicine is like giving a cat a pill. Well, not that bad – some of the time.
Manners matter with autism
When Kennedy, Alex and Bella first started down the road of all the applied behavioral analysis therapy for autism, one of the first things they tried to teach were greetings. One thing struck me, though. The only words Kennedy spoke at the time were “please” and “thank you.” But no one seemed to think it … Read more