All Entries in the "Autism" Category
Listen LIVE on Thursday, November 20 to “Teach Me To Talk with Laura and Kate”
“Teach Me To Talk with Laura and Kate” can now be heard LIVE on Thursdays at 6:00 pm Eastern Time.
On Thursday, November 20, 2008, we’ll continue our series on autism. Our colleague pediatric psychologist Dr. Lisa Powell will be joining us to talk about the specific diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders. We’ll [...]
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Recommended Autism Resources
Here are the resources for parents with children who are might be/have been diagnosed with autism that I mentioned tonight on the podcast “Teach Me To Talk with Laura and Kate” #16 Diagnosing Autism in Toddlers and Young Children.
Websites:
www.autismspeaks.org
www.actearly.org
www.floortime.org
www.zerotothree.org
Books:
Engaging Autism Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder
The Child with Special Needs Greenspan and Wieder
More Than Words Fern Sussman
Giggle Time [...]
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Listen LIVE to “Teach Me To Talk with Laura and Kate” on November 13
“Teach Me To Talk with Laura and Kate” can now be heard LIVE on Thursdays at 6:00 pm Eastern Time.
On Thursday, November 13, 2008, we’ll continue our series on autism.
By far this is the most searched topic on this website. The current statistics are staggering. 1 in 150 children are now being diagnosed with autism. If you’re a boy, the odds [...]
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NEW SERIES ABOUT AUTISM - Listen LIVE on Thursday, November 6 to “Teach Me To Talk with Laura and Kate”
“Teach Me To Talk with Laura and Kate” can now be heard LIVE on Thursdays at 6:00 pm Eastern Time.
On Thursday, November 6, we’ll be beginning a new series on autism. By far this is the most searched topic on our website. The current statistics are staggering. 1 in 150 children are now being diagnosed with autism. If [...]
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Screening Tool for Autism/PDD
I have recently received so many questions from parents with children who are exhibiting characteristics of autism spectrum disorders that I thought I’d place a couple of links for initial screening tools for parents to use at home.
Before you leave this site to “take the test,” let me add that in no way should this questionaire substitute for a [...]
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“Discover The Best Approach Proven To Teach Your Toddler To Talk”
PARENTS – ARE YOU FRUSTRATED TRYING TO TEACH YOUR TODDLER TO TALK?
ARE OTHER CHILDREN HIS AGE ASKING FOR WHAT THEY WANT AND NEED – WHILE HE CAN ONLY CRY?
Maybe the “experts” tell you everything’s fine. But you can’t get past that nagging feeling that things should be getting better. And they just…aren’t.
As a [...]
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Using PECS for Language Delayed Toddlers
Many young children need another way to communicate before they learn to talk. Speech-language pathologists often recommend that parents introduce pictures to help give a child an additional way to express his wants and needs. The most popular method for beginning to teach children to communicate with pictures is The Picture Exchange Communication System, commonly called PECS.
There are lots of myths and misconceptions concerning [...]
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Echolalia……..What To Do About It
This is a follow-up article to my recent post ”Echolalia……..What It Is and What It Means.” link
I am always so frustrated when I go to a continuing education conference or read an article by an expert when the bulk of the time is spent addressing the identification/assessment aspects of an issue, and then about 5 minutes or [...]
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Echolalia……….What It Is and What It Means
Echolalia is repeating or ”echoing” what another person has said. Children who are echolalic imitate what they have heard someone say in everyday life, lines they’ve listened to from a book, lyrics to a song, or a script from a show or movie. Professionals most often characterize children as “echolalic” when many of the words or phrases a child uses seem to be repetitions from a previous activity rather [...]
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Beyond Colors, Letters, and Numbers….. Expanding Your Child’s Vocabulary
I recently read on a parenting board that I frequently visit that a child’s SLP advised a mother not to praise her child for knowing his shapes, colors, letters, and numbers. This mom was bewildered because #1, they had spent lots of time learning those things when she was pregnant and on bedrest with twins and couldn’t do lots of physical [...]
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