Our family belongs to a church. And in all honesty, without the support of our church community, I don’t know how we would have survived the last five years. Having a community to stand alongside you is important for any family, and all the more so for a family of children with autism or other special needs. Last weekend I […]
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The Canadian Self-Regulation Initiative is a project based on the research of Dr. Stuart Shanker of York University. Its goal is to coordinate and share the best self-regulation programs and practices from across Canada. This project is the second part of a project that began with a study on the effectiveness of a DIR/Floortime approach to early intervention for children […]
Read moreBooks and reading are important in our house. My husband and I are both readers, and we believe reading is an important foundation of learning at any age. When our children were born, we filled our bottom bookshelves with books for babies and toddlers, and got ready…but there was a glitch. Both of our children were very averse to letting […]
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If you have a young child, maybe you are familiar with nursery school, daycare or kindergarten. Those spaces are child-centered. There is a pattern to the day, but children have opportunities to play with a variety of toys, to explore and learn at centres, to interact in small groups with adult support at the developmental level that they need. If […]
Read moreWell, that doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as Floortime, but all the same, who wants to be indoors in the summer? Here is a list of activities I think might engage my children. My list doesn’t look much different than a list of activities for typical young children, but the difference is in the purpose. We won’t […]
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In a perfect world, if our children needed help, we would know where to go, have an immediate opening in the right program, and our children would thrive. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple for a lot of parents with children newly diagnosed with autism. Perhaps you have decided a developmental approach such as Autism Outreach (Floortime) or RDI is your […]
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