I’ve been thinking alot about what awareness means, particularly in autism. I saw a good comment the other day on Facebook. Someone had posted a common status about the prevalence of autism and the need for awareness–pretty common among my group of colleagues and friends on Facebook (as the autism world is pretty all-consuming). He had added that he hoped…
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Thanks to the Academy of Country Music Awards Show!
I posted earlier this week a video talking about the upcoming participation by the young men and women who attended the Lifting Lives summer music camp in the Academy of Country Music Awards Show. This is the video of their performance. It was pretty incredible to watch them perform and the whole experience was an exciting experience for them….
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Reinforcement in the Classroom
As we all know, individuals with autism are not always motivated by the same strategies as other students. Sometimes they are able to tell us what they prefer and sometimes we have to become detectives to figure it out. Recently I have been thinking about the powers of reinforcement and the many myths and misunderstandings about its use in the…
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