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How can I tell if Floortime is the right intervention for my child?
Discussion: How do you identify what approaches work best for a particular child? If you are a clinician, how do you help parents figure out what approach is best for their child? “These are questions that can be answered during the assessment process,” says Dr. Greenspan. “In the assessment, have parents play with their children….
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How can I tell if my child is on the Autism Spectrum?
The best suggestion Dr. Greenspan can give to a parent? “Trust your own instincts,” he advises. Do your homework and “draw your own conclusions” when it comes to suspecting autism, or an autism spectrum disorder, in your child, says Dr. Greenspan. As a parent, you know your child better than anyone else, since you observe…
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How Children Learn to Self-Regulate: Co-Regulation and Counter Regulation
Many doctors and therapists believe that a child’s self-regulation comes from allowing the child to calm themselves down when stressed. Unfortunately, this belief leads to parents/caregivers being told to, While some of these parental responses can lead to a change in the child’s behavior, if they are used early in life, before a child has…
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How do I help my autistic child to learn, think and function well? How do I help my child academically?
Discussion: One of the real challenges with children with special needs is grappling with how you help them master reflective, analytic thinking – seeing the big picture and making inferences. In studies comparing children with autism to children without autism, who are matched for IQ, the separating factor isn’t academics. “What separates special needs populations…
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How do I help my child to interact more?
Discussion: “The key,” says Dr. Greenspan, “is to extend the circles of interaction.” Once a child is somewhat engaged, you always want to extend the circles of interaction and get more and more purposeful. Play dumb with the child so they have to extend the circles of communication. The ultimate goal is the continuous flow…