Learning Priorities: Do Parents Focus on Strengths or Deficits?
Do parents focus on areas of deficits or areas of strengths when prioritizing what their child needs to learn? A recent study investigated the areas parents view as learning priorities ...
What to Look for in a Social Skills Training Group
Social skills training groups (SSTG) are programs used to address deficits in social skills often experienced by youth with autism. These groups are particularly popular ...
More Tips for Learning from Play
In the last blog post, I wrote about ways to increase reciprocal play. Reciprocal play is what most of us think of as regular playing between two children- eye contact, ...
Turning Play Dates into Learning
In “Parents as Play Date Facilitators for Preschoolers With Autism” Stephanie Jull, MA, BCBA and Pat Mirenda, PhD, BCBA examined the usefulness of parents directing play dates to improve reciprocal ...
Training Parents to Deliver Interventions
While all professionals recommend early intervention for children diagnosed with autism, there is often a delay between diagnosis and receiving interventions. This can cause added stress for parents while processing ...
Guest Blogger: Dr. Feder on Parent/Teacher Communication
Dr. Joshua Feder is a child and family psychiatrist in California. He is the former Chief of Child and Family Psychiatry at National Naval Medical Center and a father of ...
