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Preschool age boy using a vacuum cleaner

Make the Job Meaningful for Your Autistic Child

Why would you make a job meaningful for your autistic child? You want your child to be involved, right?  To be an active part of a group or a project or most importantly, your family.   Your dream is that, eventually, your autistic child will want to join in on

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How To Teach Your Teenage Son With Autism To Shave

Learning to shave as a teenager with autism is a hygiene skill that requires practice as well as trial and error.  The teenage years can be so daunting even without autism.  Add in the idiosyncrasies  of autism, as well all the sensory issues that it brings, and you have a

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mother puttling a blue bike helmet on a preschooler

How To Teach Safety Skills To Autistic Children

Teaching safety skills to autistic children is imperative in our rapidly changing unsafe world. Most children have this innate sense of danger that keeps them relatively safe. My autistic kid lacks any sense of danger which inherently puts him in more danger than his sister. As with all skills you

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Using Sorting Laundry As A RDI Interaction In Autism

Everyone always thinks that therapy has to involve these super expensive items with high priced therapists traipsing through your house at all hours of the day. This could not be further from the truth.  Here in autismland, we use everyday chores to help us achieve some of our RDI Objectives.

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