by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com For most of us, Siri is merely a helpful phone app. But for children with autism, she can be so much more. For Gus, who didn’t quite understand how back and forth conversational skills are done, Siri is a nonjudgmental friend and teacher. Judith Newman is Gus’s mom and wrote…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com Because language comes later for children with autism, many of our kids struggle with reading comprehension. His weakness in this area was one of my major concerns when he was in elementary school, since reading comprehension was part of almost every school subject. Ryan mostly read nonfiction books back then.…
by Marcia Hinds www.autismandtreatment.com Did you ever notice our kids usually talk too loud? The way I taught my son volume control was by saying in a whisper, “Sometimes we talk real soft like this.” Then I would yell in a loud voice, “And sometimes we talk loud like this.” Our children need to…
