Autism-specific strategies to help your clients participate more fully and joyfully in their daily activities.
Since 2019, we have been dedicated to providing continuing education and courses that we felt were necessary to make our world more neuroaffirming and to challenge the ableism ingrained in us and taught to us as we became therapists and educators. Here's why we are transitioning out of offering online continuing education courses.
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More clinicians understand that behavior is communication, but not enough to do the extra work to understand the systemic, systematic, structural, and institutional oppression of racism and ableism that pervade disabled people of color's entire lives.
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If you don't have a toolbox full of autism-specific strategies, letting go of hand-over-hand can feel scary. Keep reading to learn different strategies to keep therapy moving forward.
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There is usually another way to get your clients to take on new challenges without all the drawbacks of prizes and praise. Read on for some strategies!
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There are good reasons to consider using a different approach most of the time with your autistic clients.
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I think we're asking the wrong question here, and in fact it's so much more.
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A strengths-based approach to OT with kids on the spectrum allows us to strike a balance between accepting that autistic kids think differently and also finding a way to teach them new skills.
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Most of us know that the words we choose to describe others matter. Nevertheless it can be tough to stay on top of what language reduces stigma.
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