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Handle with Care · 7M ago

Emotional Regulation and Social Thinking Part Three

Emotional Regulation and Social Thinking - Part Three  Emotional regulation is defined as the ability to control and modify emotions across time.  A child that is unable to regulate his emotions may miss opportunities to share with his peers. Continued missed opportunities for a child who experience
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Handle with Care · 1Y ago

What Makes up Emotional Regulation? (Part 2)

Emotional regulation, that is, a child’s ability to control and modify emotions across time helps the child to acquire meaningful social relationships.  A child that is unable to regulate their emotions to an appropriate level for the context may miss opportunities to share with their peers or be sh
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Handle with Care · 1Y ago

Emotional Regulation and Social Thinking - Part One

Emotional regulation is an important developmental process for all children to acquire. It helps a child to successfully attend to and interact with partners and further develop relationships. Emotional regulation is defined as the ability to control and modify emotions across time.  Another way to
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Handle with Care · 1Y ago

Tips for Successfully Inviting Your Child to Explore More Interests

As guides to our special needs children we help them develop more interests, meaning we direct their attention, concern and curiosity to a variety of topics and experiences. Often children who learn or communicate differently have difficulty engaging with new experiences. You might pick one or two o
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Handle with Care · 1Y ago

The Importance of Inviting Your Child to Explore

What are your interests? Were you born with that interest or would it be more appropriate to ask where and when the seed of that interest was planted and by whom? I ask because I often meet with parents working to engage their children with special needs more fully.  They repeatedly tell me, “He is
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Handle with Care · 1Y ago

An Interesting Development in Autism Research using MRI

Professionals often explain the neurological vunerability in autism as an ‘underconnectivity’ of the brain, impacting the communication between the regions of the brain. According to an article I recently read in “The ASHA Leader”, a newsletter from the American Speech-Language Hearing Association, 
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Handle with Care · 1Y ago

Tips for Enjoying the Holidays with your Child (Part One)

No matter what holidays you may be celebrating in the coming weeks, it will provide many wonderful memories for your family.  But, we all know that the holiday season can bring stress, lack of sleep and days that are not long enough to meet everyone’s needs.  This will be my seventh holiday season s
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Handle with Care · 1Y ago

Are you an IF?

I recently attended a two day conference on The SCERTS Model presented by Barry Prizant and Amy Laurent. SCERTS is a family centered autism treatment, with a strong developmental emphasis in communication and emotional regulation that I have long respected. The conference offered great insights, pra
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Handle with Care · 2Y ago

Inclusive Education

I want to share another highlight of the Training Institute on Autism at Florida State University sponsored by the FSU Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD).  For one full day Michael McSheehan, Clinical Assistant Professor of the University of New Hampshire spoke about Inclusive Educati
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Handle with Care · 2Y ago

Practically Playing

I had the opportunity last week to attend the Training Institute on Autism at Florida State University sponsored by the FSU Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD). Over the course of the week there were a number of national experts on autism that spoke. In the weeks to come I thought I wo
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