Did you know play incorporates various skills and helps autistic people learn their natural environment? In fact, there are different types of play: By engaging in play, it helps autistic people out with their friendships. Not only that, play helps autistic people develop social interactions with others cooperatively and competitively; communicate needs and wants; strategizeContinue reading “Let’s play!”
Author Archives: The World of Autism
Build and develop rapport
Remember the blog story I wrote earlier this month about the power of friendships? It all starts from building and developing rapport. No matter if you are an autistic self advocate, a teacher, a parent, a therapist, etc, building a trusting and positive relationship is key for success in life. Trust and empathy can beContinue reading “Build and develop rapport”
Interview with Alyssa Latham as a behavior analyst and parent coach
Did you know behavior analysts who provide parent training in the ABA field? Meet Alyssa Latham: Alyssa Latham has over 10 years of experience working with neurodiverse people of all ages as a behavior analyst. After working with big ABA companies for so long, she made the change and created her own ABA consulting businessContinue reading “Interview with Alyssa Latham as a behavior analyst and parent coach”
Friendships rock!
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Battle of tantrums vs meltdowns
I cannot tell you how many times that tantrums and meltdowns get mixed up by parents, professionals, teachers, etc. From my experiences as an autistic, I want to break down the similarities and differences between tantrums and meltdowns: Tantrums: goal-oriented (function or reason) and can be reduced by teaching communication or replacement behaviors. Meltdowns: caused byContinue reading “Battle of tantrums vs meltdowns”
Reinforcement vs Punishment
Did you know we use reinforcement and punishment all of the time, not just in ABA therapy? Reinforcement and punishment are used everywhere to shape our own behaviors. In ABA therapy sessions with autistic clients, reinforcement is used more so than punishment because behavior analysts and RBTs (Registered Behavior Technicians) are focused on strengthening behaviorsContinue reading “Reinforcement vs Punishment”
My autism diagnosis
I wanted to share my story again towards receiving an autism diagnosis, since I gained a lot of new followers on my blog website and tomorrow being my 25th birthday: I was born in Brooklyn, NY on January 18th, 1998. After I turned one years old, my parents noticed I was not meeting developmental milestonesContinue reading “My autism diagnosis”
Interview with Marissa Davila as a BCBA in ABA telehealth
Did you know there are ABA therapy companies who mainly use telehealth? Meet my first guest in the new year: Marissa Davila is a behavior analyst and founder of Blanton Behavioral Services LLC. She is not like most behavior analysts who run their own ABA therapy company because she mainly provides telehealth for clients onContinue reading “Interview with Marissa Davila as a BCBA in ABA telehealth”
New year goals
Happy new year! It’s that time of the year for autistic self-advocates and those who know someone with autism to create goals inorder to accomplish them this year. Want to learn how to set these goals? Here are the steps: 1. Make your goals achievable. This means to select realistic and age-appropriate goals while understandingContinue reading “New year goals”
Open letter to my middle school speech therapist: Mrs. Smith
Dear Mrs. Smith, I hope retirement has been going well and hope you see this letter one day online. If it wasn’t for you, I wouldn’t have grown my social and communication skills. I’m so grateful you created a social skills program for students with disabilities when I was in middle school. I learned toContinue reading “Open letter to my middle school speech therapist: Mrs. Smith”