Relationship Rescue: Expressing Feelings Appropriately
Question: “How do I assist my special needs teen/adult to express their feelings appropriately”? Advice: Not an easy answer to say the least. I have found that, typically, the parent/adult...
Behavior
Expanding Food Options for the PICKY EATER
Expanding food options for the picky eater Javier eats a couple of bites of his chicken nuggets, pushes his pasta around on his plate, turns up his nose at his...
Avoiding Power Struggles
Avoiding Power Struggles After throwing away meat wrappers, Suzy asks her son, David, to take out the trash before she leaves the room to make a phone call. When Suzy...
Helping Children Succeed at Things They’d Rather Not Do
Helping Children Succeed Most of the time, our children are happy and agreeable. That is, possibly, until we ask them to do something they don’t want to do. When we...
Getting Involved with Positive Behavior Support at Your Child’s School
Positive Behavior Support is becoming common practice in schools across the nation and has been successful in improving students’ social and academic performance. Unfortunately, parents are often unaware of how...
What is ABA, Now Really?
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is a popular intervention approach for individuals with disabilities, especially young children with autism. Unfortunately, however, there are widespread misconceptions regarding what ABA really entails. Many...
To Stim or Not to Stim? Is It an Option?
We all do it. We have funny little ways that we settle our nerves or process the world around us. For many, like my son, taking in information can send...
The Data Dilemma – It’s a Love-HateThing
The Data Dilemma – It’s a Love-HateThing I am not a Behavior Analyst. I only play one in real life. You see, as a parent of a child with special...
Ethan’s Alternative Tomorrow: A PATH Toward Social Inclusion
Ethan’s Alternative Tomorrow Hang out with Ethan for a day and you quickly become enamored with this unique young man. He charms you with his clever wit, his love for...
How to Use Choices and Preferences to Improve Cooperation
How to Use Choices and Preferences to Improve Cooperation We’re going to begin this article by stating the obvious: “People perform better – and, in general, behave better – when...
