I remember when Julianna started to change. It was shortly after her 1st birthday where I started to notice a shift in her mood. She went from a happy engaged baby who said her first word, “MAP” (She loved Dora the Explorer) at 9 months to what seemed to me as a child at …
I’m having an AWESOME workshop tomorrow and I’ve been promoting it on social media, email, you name it. It’s called the 5 Ways You’re (Unconsciously) Sabotaging Your Child with Autism, and if you haven’t signed up, it’s new, it’s free, anyone who comes live gets a free gift, AND those who stay till Q+A …
When I took a pregnancy test in the past I was either pregnant or I wasn’t. There was no half 2nd line … one line meant “no/negative”, 2 lines meant “yes/positive”, even if the 2nd line was faint. You see anything you are. Period, end of story, No debate. But with Autism even though …
Non Verbal to Potty Trained at 7 Years Old Meet Mary and her son Joseph. Joseph came to me at 7 years old. Non verbal and needing to potty train. Because he did not have communication skills he was also acting out. Mary was over changing dirty grown up pull ups and spending money on …
Just this weekend I was in tears talking with my husband. I was explaining to him how I feel so responsible for the results the families get when they work with me in my program. Most days lately, I don’t sleep through the night. I just wake up and my brain is …
Let’s talk about something super important in the world of behavior therapy… And it’s NOT the teacher. It’s NOT the School. It’s not even a special therapy toy. It’s the art of landing the reinforcement. Now, for those of you deep into Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), you know it’s all …
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If you haven’t worked with me in my Group Coaching Program for Parents of Children with Autism, you should know that I am an ABA LOVER! I always say I am not “formally trained”, I’m street trained! Meaning I’ve watched it being done in my home for YEARS, and when the therapists left, …
The difference between parents of children with Autism who get potty training, communication and problem behaviors solved versus the ones who don’t is they’re practiced in DOING HARD THINGS. Doing Hard Things ISN’T you changing diapers for YEARS. Doing Hard Things ISN’T dealing with countless hand leading trips to the pantry because your baby can’t tell you what they …
When we are working towards the goals of Potty Training or Communicating and we don’t have it yet, we often ask ourselves why it’s not happening. We think it isn’t working. Because it hasn’t worked YET. We start troubleshooting. Why we start wondering what the problem is. What if we start feeling …
I have a HUGE DENTAL PHOBIA. It started when I was a kid when no matter how much I brushed I would get cavities. And my dentist was NOT good with children. I remember him like Steve Martin in Little Shop of Horrors, a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain. Every …