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therisingstart.org — Our three Core Programs are designed to provide an “integrated pipeline” for students starting out in middle school all the way through to adulthood preparing them with the academic, vocational, and life and social skills training to successfully navigate the world of rewarding work and fulfilling …
The Biology of Breaking
By Jessica Penot
An autistic meltdown is an involuntary loss of behavioral, emotional, and physiological regulation that occurs when an autistic person’s ability to cope with sensory, cognitive, emotional, or environmental demands is exceeded. Unlike a temper tantrum, a meltd…
Living in Full Color
By Mimi Oh
Let’s be brutally honest: Being a Black woman is already hard enough. As part of the overlap of intersectionality, I fully identified as a dark-skinned, cisgender, bi/demisexual,
Catholic, Black-American woman of Nigerian descent, whose culture revolves around the Igb…
Three McMaster University students—Arish Shahab, Aaron Yu, and Ramin Syed—founded the startup Amano to tackle the financial barriers associated with hearing care. Inspired by their own family members’ struggles with hearing loss and expensive treatments, the team created a low-cost, over-the-c…
By Sam Blanco, PhD, LBA, BCBA-D
I am excited to share that we are building a resource to help BCBAs with the challenges of insurance billing. The ABA Billing Made Easy eBook will be coming out this fall.
Many BCBAs struggle with billing rules and documentation with insurance. It can feel like …
At Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital in Nashville, the newest piece of mobility equipment is a 3D printed wheelchair — built layer by layer by a gaming and technology specialist who had never set out to design a wheelchair at all.
That detail matters. It’s a small sign of a much b…