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Autism & Speech Delays Made Easy

Oct 27, 2020

How long should you go hiding spinach in brownies just to get a picky eater to eat some kind of vegetable? How much milk or juice should a child consume in a day? At some point, baked goods cannot be the only way your child eats a fruit or vegetable and a quart of juice a day isn’t optimal for many reasons, but making...


Oct 20, 2020

When a child with autism begins to speak for the first time, it can be tempting for parents or professionals to rush ahead and teach them adjectives, verbs, and phrases as fast as they can. Building the speech foundation for a child with autism must be done carefully over time, so today I want to lay out some...


Oct 13, 2020

One in 54 children is on the autism spectrum today, and nearly one in six has some kind of developmental delay. Ami Klin wants policymakers to stop treating autism as a genetic disease and instead recognize it as a public health crisis. I want to introduce you to some of Ami Klin’s groundbreaking research about...


Oct 6, 2020

Under stressful circumstances, or even under regular circumstances, wanting to escape real life by diving into too much social media, movies, or even substance abuse can cause harm to relationships, jobs, and self-development. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy was created from behavior analyses by behavior analysts as a...