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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Baden is the president of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network of Winnipeg, and writes from the perspective of a person with autism. This post provides advice that parents may find useful as the school year wraps up. In my time interacting with parents of autistic children, there is one question I have seen more than almost any other: parents panicked […]
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Service dogs are fast becoming an accepted and recognized support for children and adults with autism. In addition to helping with safety concerns such as wandering, service dogs also provide social-emotional and sensory support that can help children cope with a sometimes chaotic world, give them opportunities to interact and play, and even help them sleep well. Here is one […]
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While there are many books about parenting children with special needs, few offer information or ideas about what parents need to take care of themselves. In order to care well for our children, we need to make time for our own well-being. Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children by Rita Eichenstein helps parents understand […]
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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 […]
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