This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Carl Sundberg, PhD, BCBA-D Behavior Analysis Center for Autism and David Celiberti, PhD, BCBA-D Association for Science in Autism Treatment. To learn more about ASAT, please visit their website at www.asatonline.org. You can also sign up for ASAT’s free new…

Imagine telling your students to sit down at the table for math. You finally get 4 students seated, but then you turn your back for two seconds to grab the materials for your lesson, and in the meantime, two kids pop up and run back to their preferred activities. Scenarios like these make me want t…

Researchers in China have invented a smart bandage that kills bacteria and heals wounds while visually showing how it’s doing it. The bandage, that is green in color, turns yellow if it detects a bacterial infection, at which point it releases an in-built antibiotic to treat the bacteria. H…

Innovation doesn’t cease to amaze us, does it? Continuing similar creativity that this dad came up with for his daughter, the AbleGamers Charity, along with AT Makers, has come up with an adapter called Freedom Wing that connects a person’s wheelchair to XBox so they can use the wheelcha…

A parent writes:  “Dear Behavior BFF, My son likes to talk about the Octonauts (Cartoon). If I hear one more thing about Kwazii the cat, I may stab myself in the ear. Help!” I think so many parents can make this exact statement, just change out Octonauts for whatever your kid is into right now: S…

You may have seen or heard about Virtual Reality recently – mostly about how real and entertaining it can be. A specialist care facility in Berkshire, England is taking advantage of VR and using it to make children with Autism comfortable with new places and environments. Children with sensory…

Take A Deep Breath This advice seems so absolutely silly and obvious. I used to hate when people would tell me to take a deep breath. “Got it. I’m breathing. I’m not going to suffocate myself. Chill.” But then I realized that sometimes in a crisis I jump in split-second too early. Yes, when ther…

Rory Steel, a UK resident and father of two children with hereditary spastic paraplegia that affects their motor skills, has created an amazing accessible controller that makes playing complex games on Nintendo Switch very easy for his children. Rory took the XBox Adaptive Controller, patiently a…

One of my favorite textbooks about ABA is Focus on Behavior Analysis in Education: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities. And one of my favorite chapters in that book is called “Building Behaviors versus Suppressing Behaviors,” which focuses on school-wide positive behavior change This is…

Representation matters. Farida Bedwei, a software engineer and entrepreneur from Ghana, is the creator behind Karmzah, a crime fighting archaeologist with Cerebral Palsy who uses assistive devices to fight bad guys. Karmzah, who is Morowa Adjei when she is not fighting crime,  is the first superhero…

This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Karen Parenti, MS, PsyD. 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! I am a parent of a young man wi…

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A new oral device in the market, Y-Brush, may be able to help people with disabilities and seniors maintain daily oral hygiene. Created by the French company FasTeesH, Y-Brush is a flexible retainer with nylon bristles that fits your teeth, one set at a time (lower and upper). To use, you just ad…

Today’s technology is known to make a lot of things possible that we thought weren’t even until a few years ago. With a little technical know how, developers recently have built amazing things that were not considered accessible earlier. Joe Birch is one such developer who contributes to…