January 3, 2023

Tips on creating social stories for your autistic child

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Autistic children, like my son Arif, often struggle to understand abstract concepts like social dynamics, new situations, and transitions from one activity to the next. A helpful tool that we often use to help him understand things and feel more prepared, is social stories. We use social stories to help him better understand what’s going […]

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What parents should know about phonological processes

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Children learn to speak by imitating the sounds they hear, and typically, they’ll make mistakes along the way. For example, you may hear a child saying  “tat” instead of “cat” (substituting sounds) or “poon” instead of “spoon” (leaving out sounds). Sometimes, children may also shorten words to make them easier to pronounce, like “copter” for

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