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Autism and getting out and about with your child. With the summer arriving, and the children soon finishing school many parents are speaking to me about getting out and enjoying the summer with their children. This can be somewhat more complicated when one or a number of your family are autistic. In many [...]
Sports activities and the autistic child. For anyone who is a frequent reader of my posts on the development of autistic children, they will know the importance I place on sports activities and the use of the great outdoors in the development of our children. And right from the get go, just as with [...]
10 tips for finding the right secondary school for your child with autism Here are my top tips for secondary transfer based on my experiences as a mum to three children with autism. As a mum to three children with autism and additional diagnoses aged 8, 15 and 18, I know what a worrying [...]
Learning readiness: sensory integration and processing If your child is everywhere at once and has the concentration span of a goldfish, how can you teach him anything? Our special needs children frequently have difficulty processing sensory information. What this means is that they have difficulties learning from their senses. They are not learning ready. [...]
‘Animated Language Learning’ program reaches 300 families with autism Mary Ann Corrigan, Institute of Engineers Journal With the help of his 19-year-old son, who was diagnosed with severe autism as a child, engineer Enda Dodd's Galway-based startup provides an innovative autism speech- and language-learning program offering hope to families worldwide. Enda and Valerie Dodd’s innovative [...]
Innovative family business aims to change the world for children with autism By Declan Varley Galway Advertiser NUI Galway-based start-up founders provide innovative autism speech and language learning programme offering hope to families worldwide, with the help of their 20-year-old son. Enda and Valerie Dodd’s innovative software solution ‘ALL’, named after their company, Animated [...]
Buzzwords, how Disney helped two boys and led to the birth of ALL. By Elaine O'Regan. EDITOR, OUT ON YOUR OWN, SUNDAY BUSINESS POST By the time Enda Dodd found himself in the office of Disney Pixar founder Ed Catmull in Emeryville, his quest to find help for his twin sons Conor and Eoin, [...]
A day in the life: autism miracles on NUI Galway campus……… University Press, Galway Ireland Teenager Conor Dodd, diagnosed as severely autistic as a child, now teaches special needs children to communicate. In this story of hope and miracles, we look at how this came about and what the future holds for Conor. Can [...]
Non-verbal Learning Disability (NLD or NVLD) What is non-verbal learning disability (NLD or NVLD)? Kids with NLD are very verbal, and may not have academic problems until they get into the upper grades in school. Often their biggest problem is with social skills. NLD is very like Asperger Syndrome. It [...]
Language Based Learning Disabilities What is a language-based learning disability? Language-based learning disabilities are problems with age-appropriate reading, spelling, and/or writing. This disorder is not about how smart a person is. Most people diagnosed with learning disabilities have average to superior intelligence. What are some signs or symptoms of [...]
