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What Happens When Your Child with Autism Ages out of the School System?

What Happens When Your Child with Autism Ages out of the School System?

Teresa Badillo discusses what happens when your child with autism ages out of the school system and post-secondary-school options. Post-Secondary Options for Children with Autism That Age out of the School System One of the most challenging times for autism ... Read More
School Lunch Programs: Feeding Mind, Body and Soul

School Lunch Programs: Feeding Mind, Body and Soul

Alyce Ortuzar fills us in on what's in a school lunch, how it relates to your child's health, how to improve it and how to get your kids involved in the process. What's For Lunch? It’s lunchtime at school. What ... Read More
Learning-Related Vision Problems

Learning-Related Vision Problems

In this blog post, Patricia Lemer MEd LPC explains what learning-related vision problems are and how to correct them. An estimated 25% of school-age children have learning-related vision problems. Students can have difficulties in any of a number of areas ... Read More
HANDLE Therapy for Autism and ADHD

HANDLE® Therapy for Autism and ADHD

Marlene Suliteanu, OTR, and Judith Bluestone, neurodevelopmental/educational therapist, discuss the history and benefits of HANDLE therapy in this blog post. What Is HANDLE® Therapy? HANDLE®, an acronym for Holistic Approach to Neuro-Development and Learning Efficiency, believes that everyone possesses the ... Read More
Autism Bike Riding Help

Autism Bike Riding Help

In this blog post, physical therapists Bert Richards, PTA and Gin Utermohlen, PT give tips for bike riding help for children with autism. "Let's all go for a bike ride" ...a simple suggestion you are not likely to hear in ... Read More
Listening Skills

Listening Skills

In this blog post, Patty Lemer explains how a child develops listening skills and how listening is different from hearing. In her book, Listening with the Whole Body, Sheila Frick asserts that listening is active, voluntary, dynamic and continually adapting ... Read More
Autism Play

Autism Play

In this blog post, Rebecca Klaw MS MEd offers strategies for encouraging play in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. As every reader knows, the child at play is not idle or aimless, boring or bored, or wasting time. The child ... Read More
Visual Motor Skills and Math

Visual Motor Skills and Math

This blog is based on a talk Dr. Harry Wachs gave at the 1999 Third International Congress on Behavioral Optometry in McLean, VA about visual motor skills and math and how visual games can help with math skills. Children who ... Read More
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Johnny and Nate: Autism

Johnny and Nate: Autism

Johnny and Nate's autism-recovery is excerpted from A Compromised Generation:  The Epidemic of Chronic Illness in America's Children. Johnny was born in 1997, a year when the word autism was just beginning to make its way into the mainstream media ... Read More

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