Featured Articles
This week, in our “Featured Articles” section you can read about treatment options for children with ASD.
A report from the National Institute of Mental Health stresses the fact that most professionals agree that early intervention and highly structured and specialized programs are of vital importance.
The following points are discussed in details:
Questions parents need to ask when planning for their child’s treatment
Main characteristics of effective treatment programs
Dietary and other interventions
Use of medications in treatment
To read this article in full, visit our website and click on
Treatment Options for Children with ASD
defines what “difficult” means,
mentions some of the signs,
explains some of the causes, and
advises to get to the root of such behavior
in order to find appropriate and effective ways to deal with challenging children.
Go to Parenting—the Challenge of Dealing with Difficult Children
Our “Discussion Forum” introduces lots of interesting topics every week.
This week, several parents/teachers shared their ideas about how to get the kids up in the morning and motivated. Here is some of what they recommended.
Giving the kids incentives to complete their tasks within a certain time frame
Setting parameters and consequences
Motivating the kids with the “good smell” of food while they’re doing homework
Being consistent in enforcing punishment
And more…
Visit our Forum corner for more discussion on this and other pertinent topics.
Tips of the Week
This tip is good for adults as well as older children:
In the span of at least a week or two, have your child chart his time and write down everything he did in every waking hour of every day of the week.
Sit with him at the end of the two weeks and let him see how his time was really spent.
Does your child have trouble waking up every morning? Get her an alarm clock of her own. It won’t magically solve the problem, but it will give her a chance to experiment with being in charge of her time.
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