This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Dr. Karen Parenti, MS, PsyD CEO/Executive Director at Special Friends Foundation. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s free newsletter, Science in Autism Treatment, and like them on Face…

By Sam Blanco, BCBA Assessment is the cornerstone of creating appropriate and effective interventions. Two common assessments used for youngsters with autism are the Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills-Revised (ABLLS-R) and the Verbal Behavior – Milestones Assessment and Placement Pr…

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign recently announced the Speech Accessibility Project in collaboration with some large tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft, as well as other not for profit organizations whose communities will benefit from this initiative. Voice …

By: Tameika Meadows, BCBA from I Love ABA Across multiple industries, staffing deficits are a big problem right now.  There are many different explanations for this, but certainly in a post-COVID world all of us are redefining work, evaluating our priorities, and learning h…

Google recently announced a new feature on the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro that will enable users with visual impairment to take better selfies! This new feature, called “Guided Frame”, is a voice coach that guides the user to move their phone up, down or to the sides so their face is well positioned in…

By: Tameika Meadows, BCBA from I Love ABA “This is hard” is a statement I often hear from families both in the midst of intervention, and pre-intervention during the assessment phase. Families without support and services find it hard helping their Autistic child navigate the world…

Jake always loved to bring coffee to his dad at his record store in Norristown, PA. As his interest in coffee grew, he started researching the process of making coffee and learned about all the types of beans, blends, temperatures, and milk needed to make good coffee. When the pandemic hit and the r…

By Mariela Vargas-Irwin, PSYD, BCBA-D, LABA, Executive Director of ABLS Every day was hard with 5-year-old Tony. He would purposely find ways to annoy others and just did not seem to respond to consequences. The school tested him and said that there was nothing wrong; in fact, they said he was gi…

This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Judith Ursitti. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s free newsletter, Science in Autism Treatment, and like them on Facebook! Judith Ursitti, Mother of Jack …

The general perception out there when it comes to vision is that you either have it fully or you’re completely blind. If someone loses vision, we tend to think that a switch was flipped to the off position, causing them to lose all of their vision. However, there are many instances where an individu…

Putting on clothes can sometimes already seem like an arduous day-to-day task. Adding on limited dexterity and mobility for those with disabilities, it then becomes stressful and can drive a person to lose their dignified independence by asking for help with this daily task. Don Horton, a college…

When we look at storage space in our immediate environment, it’s mostly horizontal in the form of cabinets, shelves, and tabletop surfaces. More often than not, we clutter these spaces and finding items in an unorganized space can cause frustrations and ultimately impact our physical and mental well…

By Rose Griffin, Reposted from ABASpeech.org Setting IEP goals for autistic learners can be incredibly difficult, especially when you’re working with emerging communicators. At the beginning of my career, assessment tools were limited and I found out along the way the goals I set for my stude…

By: May Chriseline Beaubrun, MEd, BCBA (Brett DiNovi & Associates) Prior to offering some global suggestions, I wanted to highlight some of the available research that explains of the unique experiences of Black families of children with autism. Although autism does not discriminate (acro…