Is ABA right for my Child In this episode, I talk with Melissa Schiefelbein who is a board certified Behavior Analyst. We talk about why she deiced to become a behavior analyst working with ABA. She talks about how she quit her job to help her son, who is on the spectrum and started out as non-verbal and now he is talking and doing great in school. We talk about why people are so fearful of ABA and what can…
Welcome to the new year. In this post I am going to talk about little things that can help you get through you life with no hangups. We all have issues getting through life, things that either make us stop in our tracks and go back and correct our actions to just the little things we miss out of every day life. Lets start with the most simplest thing. No matter where we look it seems everyone is in…
When people look at us they don’t see that we are different than the rest of the world but yet we are. We do things differently. There are those on the spectrum that wish they weren’t and there are those who accepted it and embraced it. Being different isn’t that bad. Look at Ford. When he came out with the first model T is was just one color and everyone was soon driving the same car with the same color.…
This is one of the hardest things for us to keep in check. How many times has someone told you to either to not be over emotional or not to show them at all. This is a hard for us too do, because of who we are. For me to bottle up my emotions right now would make me very sick.. I am still dealing with the loss of my father who passed away in August of 2017. But I…
There are two types of freedom that are so important for most anyone. But for those of us who have Asperger’s it’s even more important. What I am talking about is. financial and mobile. What I am talking about is, how important it is to have you own cash and a drivers license, you need to explain to your kids how important those two things are. Now I am pretty sure the next question is, what if my son or…
One of the most important things you can do is to stay active. This is how you able to make time go by so much faster. Now there are several ways you can do this and no watching TV does not count. One of the ways to stay active is to work out, either at a gym like LA Fitness or any of the other gyms out there or on your own. Another way is to get out and get…
No one is perfect not even me. This story is quite the example of it. When I was in Rome. I went exploring with the notion that with my phone that I could find my back to my hotel. Boy was I wrong. I began walking around to where I found a little shop that was selling sweets and sandwiches and mini pizzas. So I figured I would stop in and eat. So walked in and ordered something to eat.…
Life may be difficult, and there will be plenty of stress. But never give up. If you go away to college, and in the beginning things may seem new and different. Try to look at things from different perspectives. Think to yourself “I can do this” and you will be amazed on what you can accomplish. Remember never to think of yourself as a failure, if you bail out. My mother always told all of us “Nothing is written in…