Helping Your Autistic, ADHD, or Dyslexic Child (or Self) with Reading Fluency
If your child— or you— find reading to be a chore, it could be caused by a sensory processing deficit. Here’s how to figure out if that’s the case and how to accommodate your children, your students, or yourself.
Autism: It’s not OUGHTism
As soon as a parent is aware that their child is autistic, they often ask, “What therapies does my child need?” Terra Vance walks readers through what to prioritize.
If not electroshock at the Judge Rotenberg Center, then what? Try access to communication
Proponents of the Judge Rotenberg Center’s use of electroshock as punishment on disabled children and adults claim that nothing else works. What about access to appropriate communication?
On Autism, Getting Dressed, and Toileting
There are a lot of parents who are anxious about the upcoming school year because their autistic children may not be dressing or toileting without assistance. This article explains why many autistic children and adults may experience incontinence.
Announcement: NeuroClastic Job Board Funded and Moving Forward!
NeuroClastic board member Marcia Eckard has collected information on thousands of opportunities for autistic job seekers. We have the vision, you made the donation, and now we are building our job board with a talented autistic web developer.
Weavers and Concluders: Two Communication Styles No One Knows Exist
People expect that we all have the same communication instincts, but there are at least two communication styles that, without knowledge of them, will result in a lifetime of missed connections.
Review: Lulu is a Rhinoceros… Plus an April Sneak Peak
Lulu Is a Rhinoceros is a children’s picture book about a Rhinoceros who looks like a bulldog. It’s a mighty and subversive story about living authentically in a culture that values assimilation.
A Strategy to Help Autistic Kids be Less Afraid of Storms– Or Anything Else
NeuroClastic CEO, Terra Vance teams up with autistic Meteorologist JP Kalb to help you support your autistic child through a fear of storms.
The Gatekeeping of Diagnostic Dinosaurs: Autism, neurophobia, confirmation bias, and internalized ableism
Understanding about autism in adults is sparse. Many psychologists and psychiatrists receive only a single paragraph of education about autism in all of grad school, creating a human rights crisis for undiagnosed adults.
But my child loves ABA and their therapists: ABA, religion, and the status quo
ABA therapy is a religious cult with science as its god and the status quo as its benchmark. I was born a heathen, and being broken into compliance was for my own good.
