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1. Speak with your child's school. Find out about schedule changes and extras, such as concerts, so as you can accommodate and prepare your child for the inconsistencies. If you feel your child will not benefit from the changes being made, keep them home to learn from you or your therapists. Read more...

After weeks of preparation, shopping for the perfect toy and wrapping it carefully, many parents are disappointed when their child with special needs does not want to open presents or does not know how. To set you and your child up for success, try following the below procedure to help your child become excited to rip open that gift and find out what is inside. Read more...

Family get-togethers can be tough for all families, but when you have children who have additional needs it can become even more challenging. Read more...

Relationships with siblings, peers and strangers become more and more complex with age, so it is important that we effectively teach our older children the social skills they need to be able to cope with these demands. Using the principles of ABA Harris et al (1990) taught adolescents to offer assistance to someone in need, Palmen et al (2007) improved children’s question asking behaviour and Miller & Neuringer (2000) demonstrated an increase in response variation which could be used to teach conversation skills. These are the sorts of things we target when aiming for social inclusion and integration. Read more...

NETwork Interventions often collaborates with schools. This can be a challenging environment, as teachers already have a full work load and multiple children to attend to. We are always looking to improve our efficacy and practice in the school setting and so were very excited to attend the presentation "Training Public School Teachers to Use Data Based Decisions Analysis with Discrete Trail Training" given by Dana Zavatkay of the Marcus Autism Centre (www.marcus.org/). Here is what we learned: Read more...

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