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How Successful Autism Integration makes ALL Kids Better People

As parents of children with autism, we want our children to have the same kind of enriching experiences in life as do typically developing children. The best way to ensure a rich childhood, full of opportunities, is t…
Autism Today: Alien

Last week I felt like the mother in the commercial, where her son shows her a good report card, and she starts to cry. My son is growing up. He pulled up his grades. I wish he could do the same for his pants, but on…
Book Reviews - "Middle School: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About – A Teenage Girl with High-Fun

I Teach Autism’s favorite independent publisher AAPC has come through again with another wonderful resource to help teach students with high functioning autism. We highly recommend this book for it’s uniqu…
Father's Mission to Change Schools

I read a post not too long ago about a father who wired his autistic 10-year-old to find out why he was always so angry when it comes to school. The result is completely appalling.. I mean the things that his teachers…
A Parent’s Journey with Aspergers: With Her Son, From Childhood To Young Adult

Mari Nosal my new mentor, of sorts, allowed me to most graciously post this article which talks about graduation and her autistic son, since my twin autistic sons are now almost 16 this may be reflected in my life soo…
Motivation by a Mentor

One of the big issues our children face is the motivation factor. They crave sameness and they crave stability. But the world-at-large doesn't recognize and accept the fact that our children cannot accomplish certain s…
What's Next: Kindergarten... Preschool...Life Skills?

Charlie's first teacher, Miss Ginette, was a Godsend with a capital G. She is patient, loving, kind and most of all she is consistent in her training of Charlie. I was, at first, determined not to like the school beca…
Bad decisions, self punishment, and reflection

I don't care who you are or what kind of childhood you had, we have all done something we aren't proud of. We have all made bad decisions. That's half of learning when you are growing up after all, mistakes. Some are b…
Spring Semester Stress

Life for our collegeman has been pretty quiet these last few weeks. He has slept till midday. He did simple chores in the house. He stayed up all night watching TV and he ate like a pig. In fact, I have not seen anyone…