Food Difficulties?

Food related difficulties are common amongst our students. We have seen food related difficulties ranging from food selectivity to appropriate eating and behavior during meal times. We have increased the food repetoire of many of our students. Currently, we are seeing some difficulty with getting specific students to eat anything at school. We will be implimenting a plan to help the student get used to eating at school.

What are some difficulties you are experiencing relating to food and eating? Do you want to add new foods to your child's food repetiore? What foods would you like to add?

Challenging Behaviors?

How to handle behavior challenges is the first step in all parent training programs. Some behavior challenges we typically address are non-compliance, motor stereotypy, and vocal stereotypy. What are some other behavior challenges that could and/or should be address in parent training?

Behavior challenges are common amongst students on the Autism Spectrum. You should not feel discouraged or embarrassed to talk about the behaviors you are seeing. It is likely that some other families are seeing the same behaviors.

 
A parent recently approached us about special needs friendly dentists. Finding good doctors and dentists for children with Autism is extremely important and difficult. Below is a denistal practice that has been successful with students with Autism.

                 Drs. Eytel, Rosenfeld, & Assoc
412 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange
(973) 731-2468
http://www.the-big-grin.com/ 

If you know of any other dentists or doctors that are good with special needs children please share their names with us. Feel free to share any success stories regarding these doctors.

Introduction to Parent Training

Parent participation is key to the success of our students. Parent training is our way of teaching you the skills needed to help your child succeed and generalize skills, such as toilet training and behavior interventions, to the home setting. Please feel free to comment and let us know about any questions, concerns, or topics that you want to hear about.

Some topics of interest could be behavior issues, goals, accomplishments and/or success stories, social interactions, finding special needs friendly doctors, etc.