Supporting Your Child in a New School Year
How can a parent provide support for their child with ASD in the beginning of a new school year? At the beginning of the school year when everything is brand new, the stress in our child’s life skyrockets! Change is difficult for children with autism, and the new...
The Therapeutic Power of Routine
How does routine support individuals with autism? At the start of any endeavor, establishing a healthy routine from the very beginning is very powerful. Preparing the individual with ASD for an event, a new schedule, or a change in any area of life will help the...
School Supplies Alone Won’t Do It
Do parents with children on the autism spectrum need to prepare for school differently? For most families, getting ready to start the school year includes new pencils and books and backpacks. When you child is on the autism spectrum, the effort to get prepared for...
Learning to Be Flexible
Why are people with ASD so rigid? People on the spectrum often express a strong desire to control their environment in order to manage the discomfort of autism. Because processing new information is so difficult or painful, people with ASD become inflexible to manage...
Social Conformity
What makes social conformity difficult for people with autism? Much of the social conformity that comes naturally to the rest of us originates from innately knowing and following the social rules without thought. We act, think and do things the way we do because that...