When helping family members to know how best to interact with your child, We first suggest having an open and honest conversation ahead of time and not with the child around. This way you can be really honest and share the things that you’d like…

    Turns out dad was right. It’s good to get out there and get the blood moving and breathe in the fresh air. Doctors have shown that engaging in regular exercise can have an enormously positive impact on a child’s physical, emotional, and even…

    As your child with autism gets closer to eighteen years old, the services and support they receive will begin to change. The primary and secondary schools across Canada offer many inclusive programs that may have supported your child up to this point. However,…

  It’s easy to forget that your little guy is going to grow up into an adult one day. You can be so busy taking care of them in every little way that you don’t notice their independence developing right under your nose. One day,…

    “Don’t just think about it. Do it. Do it. Do it.” (Remember the Participaction theme song from our childhood?) It still holds true today. Don’t let anything stop you when it comes to putting your kids on a local baseball team, getting them…

  Not everything always goes according to plan. Sometimes life hits you with a rogue wave and you end up scattered to the winds, disoriented, and wondering what happened. Kids have an extraordinary capacity to bounce back considering all the bumps and scrapes they get…

    Sometimes it’s hard to pinpoint a rationale behind someone’s behaviour. Symptomatic conditions can sometimes be difficult to precisely categorize. Are they this, or are they that? A child could be manifesting some conditions of one developmental disorder, but they could simultaneously be presenting…

  If you have a child with autism you are going to need to rethink the way you plan your day, your week, or even your year. Events unfold at a different pace, and if you don’t adjust you’re going to be consistently frustrated. Monarch…

  Do you ever get into the zone with something you’re working on? Of course you do. So you know exactly how hard it is to suddenly change gears to a different topic on the fly. It can be frustrating. It can make you irritable…

  What we put into our bodies makes an enormous influence on both our mental and physical health. The diet that we feed our children has a particular impact because they usually don’t have the means to feed themselves nutritious food. When it comes to…