Trick-or-Treat: Teaching Our Kiddos about Halloween
Halloween is really fun holiday that many children look forward to all year long. However, there can be a number of challenges for our kiddos, who are on the spectrum, during this holiday. One challenge (usually the biggest one) is wearing the costume. Costumes feel and look very different from what they usually wear. It […]
Parent Training at The Shafer Center
In August 2015 at The Shafer Center, a Parent Training Series was created for parents whose children were recently diagnosed with autism. The parent training series was developed to help parents understand the key components of their child’s programming and teach parents ways to carry over these techniques at home and in the community. The […]
Promoting Successful Transitions
TRANSITION. To parents who have children on the Autism spectrum, this word can bring about an abundance of feelings. From nervousness, to fear, to anger, parents dread the thought of having to encounter this change. When your child is in a placement where you know the teachers and the teachers know your child, the thought […]
BCBA: Why does it matter?
BCBA. It always surprises me that there are so many varied emotions associated with these 4 letters. For those of us who get to write them after our name, that emotion is pride in being affiliated with a field that matters greatly to us. For others there is sometime defensiveness or denial. I hear so […]