This week’s post comes to us from Stephanny Freeman, PhD and Kristen Hayashida, MEd, BCBA, our partners on the Play Idea Cards app. Play Idea Cards is a full curriculum on teaching play – right in the palm of your hand! Check it out on the Apple App Store!  Most adults think of toy play …

This post was written by Esoteric Quality, a blind musician and activist. In order to explain how the struggles of a blind man launched the blindness revolution, it is necessary to start from the beginning of my life, so that readers will understand the context and purpose of the song and my music. …

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In the next few weeks I will be writing about ethics in the field of applied behavior analysis. This is the first part in a multi-part series. Sometimes behavior analysts get a bad rap because we are so focused on the data. Somehow, there is a perception that writing down the numbers and graphing th…

Can a quadriplegic, someone paralyzed from the neck down, drive a car?  Race car driver Sam Schmidt’s career came to an abrupt end when a crash in 2000 left him paralyzed. After 17 years though, project SAM (Semi Autonomous Motorcar), a car with various modifications, has helped Sam get back o…

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This week’s blog comes to us from clinical psychologist Lauren Elder and was originally posted on Autism Speaks as part of their Got Questions? series. “Our son, age 9, was recently diagnosed with autism. He knows something’s up, but we’re not sure how to explain. Advice?” Y…

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Let’s say you are coming back from work in the evening. You enter your house, and proceed to flip the switch(es) that will turn on lights in and around your house. But what if you have a disability that either prevents or makes it difficult to manually turn on the lights?   In order to turn on light…

This month’s ASAT feature comes to us from Peggy Halliday, MEd, BCBA and David Celiberti, PhD, BCBA-D. 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 conc…

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Have  you heard of digital Braille yet? Perkins library recently piloted a compact and portable Braille device that will revolutionize the way blind people interact with braille content. Typically, Braille books are very voluminous and very bulky. To put things into perspective, Leo Tolstoy’s …

This piece originally appeared at Autism Speaks as part of their Got Questions? series. My almost 3-year-old was recently diagnosed as having autism spectrum disorder. We struggle going places such as open gym or even the library because he doesn’t like other kids in his space. He does okay wi…

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