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Flying with your autistic child: tips

By |2023-02-23T17:22:57+00:00February 23rd, 2023|4. Parenting, 5. Questions answered, 9. All posts|

Can I take my autistic child on a flight? As we are seeing the first glimmers of the summer I thought I would write some posts speaking to our experiences with the boys traveling, on vacation or generally out and about. With all the airlines slowly coming back to life, I wanted to share [...]

Helping kids with autism to speak their mind: RTE brainstorm

By |2023-01-24T17:17:41+00:00January 8th, 2023|4. Parenting, 7. In the media|

Helping kids with autism to speak their mind Opinion: Today Enda Dodd talks about the tools which have helped his kids communicate a way out of the isolation of autism For those who have come to know our family around the world, they will tell you that we invest much of our energy in [...]

Understanding Autism And Sport

By |2023-01-08T16:23:41+00:00September 25th, 2022|4. Parenting, 6. Sport and autism, 9. All posts|

Understanding Autism and Sport For anyone who knows Val and I, or follows our blogs on special needs children, they will know we place enormous emphasis on sport in Autism. Everyone knows that sport is important in child development, big deal do I hear you say? But let me tell you, in Autism it [...]

Conor goes canvassing with Hildegarde

By |2022-11-29T16:53:32+00:00January 30th, 2022|4. Parenting, 5. Questions answered, 6. Sport and autism, 7. In the media, 8. Advocacy, 9. All posts|

Conor goes canvassing with Hildegarde: Autism power! Hildegarde Naughton at work For anyone that knows Val and I, they will know we place huge importance on making sure our boys stay active in the community and understand the importance of giving back. And where best can anyone do this, than to participate [...]

Autism conquers ocean racing

By |2022-11-29T16:54:54+00:00August 6th, 2021|4. Parenting, 6. Sport and autism, 9. All posts|

Conor takes on the sea: autism conquers ocean racing! As many of you know, Conor and his sailing team had been busy preparing for another major sports challenge: To be the first Aphasic autistic adult to helm a racing cruiser in a major ocean race. This endeavor has been followed by several blogs written [...]

Autism no limits, Conor takes on Galway Bay

By |2022-11-29T16:55:13+00:00May 14th, 2021|4. Parenting, 6. Sport and autism, 7. In the media, 9. All posts|

For those who are regular readers of my blogs, speaking about the abilities of autistic children is a common theme. And in many of these blogs you will see sport pop up frequently particularly as we head into the summer months, as we are now. These blogs cover a host of outdoor (and some [...]

Opportunities in autism

By |2022-11-29T16:55:48+00:00April 9th, 2020|4. Parenting, 5. Questions answered, 9. All posts|

Opportunity comes in strange places Many people today ask me how I knew the boys were intelligent as toddlers. I remember back in those early days when the only difference between the boys’ assessments were the degree of how bad it was going to be. And by this time in my career, I had spent over [...]

Managing Children’s Behavior in Public: 5 Strategies that work!

By |2022-11-29T16:56:12+00:00January 30th, 2020|4. Parenting, 9. All posts|

Managing children’s behavior in public is a timeless struggle for parents. Having a child throw a major temper tantrum or act out in a public place, like Wal-Mart or Chili’s, is a horrifying event that most parents experience at least once, if not repeatedly with preschool and elementary children. It does not have to [...]

Managing behaviors and the token economy

By |2022-11-29T16:56:30+00:00January 30th, 2020|2. Therapies, 4. Parenting, 9. All posts|

Once we got the boys communicating through our work with Disney videos, we needed to get their behavior under control. A wonderful therapist who worked largely with the deaf community recommended a token economy. It saved our lives! Here are some of the basics..... Token Economy "One of the most important technologies of behaviour [...]

Language is about life

By |2022-11-29T17:09:31+00:00December 30th, 2019|4. Parenting, 5. Questions answered, 9. All posts|

Language is about life and life is for living I was working with a family last week and taking some time to understand how the ALL Toy Story (Disney / Pixar) learning content was working with their young autistic son. We had started working with this young boy some weeks prior and the data [...]

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