A parent asks: My beautiful nine-year-old daughter has autism and is mostly nonverbal. She has always done some vocal stimming but it has never been disruptive. But for the past few months, she’s doing it much more often and more loudly, and it's becoming a real issue in our home and at school. We’re not sure why the stimming has intensified, as [...]
Three little words: behavior is communication. This poignant reader question, from my Positive Parenting Solutions guest blog appearance, gets to the heart of what happens when a child with autism cannot communicate his needs. Q: I teach children who have autism, so I often wish I could get inside their heads to know what’s motivating them. Each is so individual [...]
A parent asks: My son is four, and we have bad days that leave me in tears. It’s so hard when I don’t understand what he’s trying to communicate. Screaming (I compare it to a car alarm) is his primary form of communication: screaming at me if I choose the wrong color of silverware for him or the wrong chair [...]
Those dreaded public meltdowns. Most parents of kiddos with autism have faced this ugly beast of a problem at least once—and once is more than enough. Fortunately, such meltdowns needn’t be a fact of life with autism.A parent asks: My son is nearly four and has high functioning ASD. We have had some challenging times lately with battles of wills. [...]