What is Asperger’s – Question from a Grandparent

My youngest granddaughter has been diagnosed with asperger’s syndrome, and I am wondering if you could send me more info about it. I don’t really know that much about it at all. Have been looking all over the “web” and there is just too much to take in. She is only 4 years old, so [...]

Think Good – Feel Good: CBT for Children

The book “Think Good – Feel Good: A Cognitive Behavior Therapy Workbook for Children”, and its companion manual “A Clinician’s Guide to Think Good-Feel Good: Using CBT with children and young people”, written by Paul Stallard is a great resource for clinical psychologists, teachers, speech language pathologists, occupation therapists and parents for addressing the needs [...]

Cognitive Behavior Intervention Program for Teens with ASD

A recent article published in the journal Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, written by Susan W. White et al., discusses the intervention program she and her colleagues have developed to treat adolescents with autism and anxiety. The manual-based treatment program they’ve developed is a cognitive-behavioral treatment program designed to target anxiety symptoms as well [...]

Stories from Our Members

During the month of April we held a contest in which members submitted stories about their lives with autism. The following compilation of stories are those which didn’t meet the length requirement of the contest, but we still wanted to share them with all the members of the Autism Community.
The Ups and Downs – [...]

Scripting – A Parent Seeking Help

My 5 1/2 year old son was diagnosed with Autism about 2 years ago. In some ways he is doing great — sight reading, compliance, GI function, computer skills, much improved physical ability. This and other skills have been helped by therapy, ABA and diet/vitamins.
My problem is that he spends nearly every second of the [...]

Speech Language Pathologist by Claire

I am a Speech Pathologist who works with preschoolers and elementary aged students. One of my students who has a diagnosis of Autism has difficulty recognizing the faces of his peers. When he brought home his class picture, his mom asked him to tell her who the people in the picture were. He told her [...]

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