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  • Group Skills Versus Working Independently

    A few days ago, I had come across a post about a parent saying that her aspie child will often have meltdowns when working in groups, so much so that the child's teachers have given up on the idea. Now, the parent reported that her child is happier...
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  • Graduation

    Graduation is usually the happiest time of the school year. Lots of smiley faces, lots of happy families and friends, and lots of happy instructors. But, this made me think of a whole new thing, as it was another time where I realized I took my high sensory...
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  • How to Make Difference in Interest Works in Friendship

    In the most recent AOTA conference, I have met up with a good bit of OT students and professionals, and some with different interests than mine. Yet, all the parties involved made it work, including me. However, I came across a post today about an aspie...

  • To Disclose or Not Disclose, That's the Question

    Because I am in OT, I don't have to deal with the dilemma when I am working in the field when I am done with the student stage of my OT journey in a few months. I have gone to a lot of OT conferences. I have also presented several times in these conferences...

  • When to Believe That An Aspie Can't Help It, When Not To

    I have come across a few posts by a parent saying that she believes that her aspie son can't help with his problems on Facebook. On one hand, it is great that the parent is trying to be an advocate for her son. However, I believe that this aspect...

  • Going Solo in Public Speaking

    A few days ago, I delivered an OT conference presentation on autism in my state's OT symposium by myself, a change from the last two times where I presented with someone. It was an hour affair. It may mean not as much for veteran conference speakers...
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  • April is OT Month... Also Autism Awareness Month

    Last year around this time, I was not even aware that April is also autism awareness month. Now that I know this year, I decided to put a more dedicated effort into this. As a person in OT who is dealing with this every day, this is not easy because there...

  • Autism on the News Again

     

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  • Optimism versus Pessimism

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  • Tough Love

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  • Giving Instructions

    Today I have read a post about a parent vowed to not give any verbal directions to her aspie child. When I read that, I was like, "To function in the real world, one must be able to process oral, visual, and written directions to some degree. Sure...

  • Being an Inspiration For Caregivers and Consumers

    Aside from information and strategies to deal with their daily lives, one thing parents in the autism community need a lot is hope. Hope in the autism context comes in various forms. First, it can be that there will be hope for their Aspies to improve...

  • Yesterday's Occupational Science Symposium at USC

    I went to USC's occupational science symposium yesterday, which the topic was about autism. Unlike the recent autism west conference organized by AOTA, it was more of an interdisciplinary affair. Because of that, the audience was also a diverse mix...
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  • Autism Community's Reactions to the California Autism Task Force

    I have known about the news about the California Autism Task Force for quite some time now. Now, apparently the autism community has caught on the news. Unfortunately, the autism community didn't take the news so well. I have known this information...

  • Autism Consultants- Are These Non-Professionals Stepping Over the Boundaries of Our Profession?

    The thing that sparked these posts was that I read a shared link with an Aspie friend yesterday, where he said he is doing something called autism consulting and he will charge people about $10/hour for his services via Skype. The people receiving these...
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