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Help Your Child Overcome Picky Eating Now
Picky Eating is the common term for what Picky Eaters do. These children are hard to please and to feed in general, but they rarely end up starving themselves. Patterns of “over-selecting” food are common among children with developmental disorders, but they are also common among all children.
ASPERGER’S ARE US – ON HBO
https://youtu.be/bnbjwmLMuJY From executive producers, Mark and Jay Duplass (Room 104, Togetherness), On Tour With Asperger’s Are Us is a six-part, half-hour documentary series that follows Asperger’s Are Us, a four-man comedy troupe of friends with Asperger...
The High Cost of Stress in the ABA Workplace
As a planet full of workers, we are getting increasingly stressed out. According to a recent article in the Huffington Post levels of stress in the workplace are reportedly 18% – 24% higher now than they were 30 years ago. Why? Potential culprits include...
DO YOU HAVE A “QUALITY” ABA SERVICE PROVIDER?
During a recent webinar, Rethink Behavioral Health and the Behavioral Health Center of Excellence asked the question: “What does ‘quality’ really mean?” in regards to an Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) service provider. As you know, ABA providers come in many...
HERE’S WHAT COWORKERS THINK WHEN YOU SUCK UP TO YOUR BOSS
Few employees would deny that ingratiation is ubiquitous in the workplace. This behavior goes by many names – kissing up, sucking up, brown-nosing and ass-kissing. Indeed, the fact that there are so many names that describe this behavior suggests that it’s something...
HOW TO HELP YOUR CHILD DEVELOP SOCIAL SKILLS THROUGH COOPERATIVE PLAY
Socializing forms a big part of our everyday lives. From exchanging polite conversation with strangers to cementing lasting relationships with our family and friends, the ability to talk and engage with our peers is an incredibly useful skill to have. But for those...
SIMPLY PUNISHING STUDENTS FOR BULLYING WILL NOT ADDRESS THE PROBLEM
The spring legislative season is well underway, and, as has been the case for the last several years, a number of states are again considering and passing amendments to their anti-bullying laws. This year, Florida and Kentucky, for example, saw amendments to their...
4 SECRETS TO EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION USING BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
“The opportunity to directly control outcomes-to do what you think needs to be done, rather than what you are told to do- essentially defines the American dream” as William B. Abernathy states in The Sin Of Wages (2011). Over the 27 years that I’ve provided leadership...
Simple Ways to Make Pokémon Go! Safe with Autism
By now you have probably heard of Pokémon Go! It is a mobile game developed by Niantic that includes location-based augmentative reality. In other words, using the GPS on your phone, the game identifies real-world locations near you and the “digital you” on your...
