If you’ve never heard that name – Hervé Tullet – you should fix it straight away. Hervé is a great artist and children books’ author. Hervé is an entertainer, a teacher, an inventor and a creative friend. I like his unusual view and approach to art teaching/learning techniques for little kids. Interesting, funny and playful. Boring is… Read More Hervé Tullet – the unexpected and adventitious master of ABA
I have to admit that start of my son’s kindergarten was a big challenge for me. Giving my kid under the other people’s custody was really scaring me as hell. They are strangers. They do not care. They will be in troubles every freaking minute but it’s all too complicated to be explained. Nobody really give a real attention to what could happen in… Read More Tracking System vs. Wandering
There is a certain number of health issues associated with ASD as we can learn from the newest studies. Those most common are digestive problems like leaky gut or yeast overgrowth, different kind of allergy including casein, eggs or soy, impaired detoxification such as anxiety and sensory issues or immune disfunction. Some of the signs… Read More ASD and Skin Conditions
Sensory issues could be transformed in a sensory therapy. What? Is it possible? – you ask. Well yes. If you carefully choose materials to use pre-during-after bath time thats doable! In our case bath problems was a real ‘what the heck?!’ thing because it came after a long time our son was fully enjoying… Read More Bath time? Not a nightmare anymore!
If you use Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) you probably try to teach also out of your place, during a walk in the park, while traveling or food shopping in the market. I was always fighting with all the stuff my son was carrying around with him in his hands, pieces of some game, an enormous toy… Read More Pocket size reinforcers
When my son was still non verbal, I was wondering often if he understands me. And I’m not talking about understand words, sentences. If he knows that I love him, that I’m upset for some reason, scared or happy. I did’t know if he would be able to let me know what is he… Read More Filled with emotions
This topic is as common as the presence of sugar in almost every food we can find in the mall. And if you are expecting a new baby, there is no way to avoid a dipper and most exhaustive explanation you can imagine to your autistic child. Start to do it ASAP to make… Read More Explaining a new sibling to my firstborn on spectrum
This fantastic toy we found a few years ago during our short trip to London. One big superstore in the heart of the citycenter was offering this product for kids with a need of developing motor skills and hand-eye coordination. At that time we had no idea yet that our son will be ever… Read More Unexpected fun for kids and grown ups!
How it happend in our family, using different products and materials for training and achievement of every ABA goal was always indispensable. Just so as to make the learning process more interesting and flexible we are trying to diversify objects used during teaching time. And – what is more important – do not make… Read More Amaze me with mazes!