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Autism Diagnosis

Guest Post by Ben Chutz It is amazing how many apps are geared for children on Apple’s iTunes store and across the Internet. Autism apps could be a category in itself Innovative websites and social networks geared towards children and teens with Autism are just now coming on to the scene. But what about the parents? [...]

10 Essential Tools For Therapists And Special Educators

Tools for Therapists and Special Educators

Therapy for children has changed a great deal since the days when Anna Freud used play as a way to apply the psychoanalytic techniques of her famous father to the problems of children. Time-limited cognitive behavior modification (CBT) has largely replaced the use of psychoanalytic techniques, and open ended play therapy. Therapy occurs in many [...]

Creating a Social Story

My friend just sent me a link to a great site for personalized social stories, sandbox-learning.com. Those of us with kids with special needs know all about social stories. We tell them, we write them to help ease our kids into a transition or when something might bring on some anxiety. It helps to set up some [...]