ADAPT exists to help parents learn more about developmental therapies for supporting children with autism. This fall, Community Living Manitoba offered us a grant to do just that. ADAPT has used the opportunity to create two documents: A brochure for parents of newly diagnosed children, offering encouragement and perspective, with a little advice on how to keep the wellness of […]
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Rosanne Papadopoulos is an occupational therapist and RDI consultant in Winnipeg. You can read more and find her contact information at her website, Discoveries in Therapy. It’s Saturday morning and I am feeling self-regulated! After a long week of work, I had a great sleep, am sitting next to the warmth of a fall fire in the woodstove on my […]
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This post is part of a series, taking a quick look at each of the developmental capacities as described by Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder in their DIR/Floortime framework. As a child grows, they add new skills to what they learned in the previous capacities. You can find the list of related posts here. After children have become comfortable with […]
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Last May, I shared a list of books that our children have enjoyed. More than that, they were books that led to conversations or activities that we could do together. You can read Part 1 here, and here are some more! Once There Was a Raindrop by Judith Anderson This is one book in a series about science – other […]
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This post is part of a series, taking a quick look at each developmental capacity according to the work of Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder in their DIR/Floortime framework. As a child grows, they add new skills to what they learned in the previous capacities. You can find the list of related posts here. After you and your child have […]
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This post is part of a series, taking a quick look at each developmental capacity, according to the work of Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder in their DIR/Floortime framework. As a child grows, they add new skills to what they learned in the previous capacities. You can find the list of related posts here. Communication is so much more than […]
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Service dogs can be a great help to people with autism. In October of 2015 Jackie shared about her family’s reasons for getting a service dog for her daughter. Here’s a followup post on how things have gone, and how a service dog has helped Signey grow. So, when we decided to buy a service dog for our daughter, Signey, […]
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One of the difficult things about learning your child has autism is deciding what kind of services are best for them. For example, early childhood intervention can be offered in many different formats, each based on different philosophies of child development. From time to time, parents of children with autism talk about combining therapies – they hope to be working […]
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Credit for this topic goes to Marlaine Willborn, a retired speech therapist in Winnipeg, who demonstrated the use of ideas from Giggle Time: Establishing a Social Connection by Susan Aud Somers. Overview Play is how children learn. Most adults want to play with their children. Sometimes we can feel that our children don’t want to play with us. Many of […]
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The following story was written by a mother learning to communicate and problem-solve with her child through play.through play. My son has begun his Autism Outreach therapy. For those of you unfamiliar with it – it’s a developmental therapy offered for children with autism. And it’s basically using play to help kids hit those developmental milestones. Our therapist is amazing. […]
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