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The Impacts of Not Curbing Behaviors Related to Autism With autism, comes behaviors. In general, when our kids are little, there are more behaviors. We, as parents, (along with the various facilitators who work with our children), have to deal with these behaviors. In an ideal world, we are all trained to handle most behaviors…

My son has a friend—which in itself is a big deal in the world of autism. And, it’s a big deal for our kid. My son has known a lot of kids, but has never had too many close friendships over the years. And, the “friends” he did have were mostly through social groups. He…

Approaching the first day of middle school for my son with autism, I was hoping that I had done everything I could think of to help prepare him BEFORE the first day of school. He was pretty comfortable on the new campus, he got assigned the English teacher from his summer class, and he was…

In my previous blog, I discussed how I helped my son get comfortable in his new digs. We started early, and visited the campus often. Did we do anything else? We made sure to NOT miss "Howdy Day." Howdy Day took place on the Monday BEFORE the start of school. It's the week when the…