Recently Twitter Exploded with a brand new hashtag. #youmightbeanautismparentif has been used to describe how you can tell a parent has a child with autism. The hashtag has been used over 3,000 times. Some tweets are inspirational, others are tongue-in-cheek and others are downright funny! Check out our top hand picked #youmightbeanautismparentif tweets and check out [...]
For about a week I have been asked to submit a post for the Friendship Circle Blog. Where is it? Maybe this will help It’s the week before Thanksgiving and we are in the middle of parent-teacher conferences. So where is my blog post? The dog ate it. Not really, but sometimes as the parent [...]
We all know what a hard job being a parent is. But what happens when we have one child with special needs and another without? Are we treating them differently? Do the same rules apply? Are we making exceptions for the child without special needs that we otherwise may not if things were different? I bet these [...]
By Hartley Steiner, www.hartleysboys.com I have many friends – some who have special needs kids and some who do not – and often times I think they are at a loss for what to say or do for me during one of the many crises our family has. When my son is struggling at school, [...]
Means changing behavior in yourself How Do Skill Deficits Impact Behavior? It is common for children with developmental disabilities to have problems with behavior. The main reason why this occurs so frequently with children who have developmental disabilities is because of the deficits that they have. If a child has deficits in language and social [...]
Speaking up…When people ask for your opinion should you give it? In my youth I often gave my opinion to people with unabashed confidence and charm. Let’s call those growing pains! As I have grown up I have learned a valuable lesson, don’t offer advice unless it is asked for. However, more recently I have [...]
Have you ever been told by a stranger how to discipline your child with autism, what to feed him and of course how to cure him? You try to explain to him or her how autism works but no explanation is good enough because their cousin or favorites celebrity’s child was “cured from autism” with some miraculous [...]
