I had the occasion this past week to watch a BBC documentary that was really amazing and the story was for every parent out there that has a child with Sensory Processing Disorder. It is the story of an older gentleman who woke up one day to find that his…
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Autism
What is power anyway?
I am going to veer off course for this writing and will continue discussing executive functions next time. We are leaving from South Africa today, back to the USA. I completed a series of different trainings and had some time with my mom in Durban as well as some time…
Noooo!!! It is going to be Forever!!! I am Never going to be able to do what I want to do!!! Part 2
Time is an elusive skill for Kayla as she struggles with developing her executive functioning skills. As a baby she had to learn to understand different cycles of sleep and wake as well as night and day. She struggles with impulsivity and finds it difficult to wait for someone to…
To Be Able to Execute Planful Behavior: Part 1
How to understand what it means to become organized This writing is the first in a series of writings that is going to focus on executive behavior. This is the kind of behavior we would all like to see in our children; and ourselves, to have a goal, to plan…
Language and Motor Skill Development go side by side
How do we know what children hear? How are they listening to our language? How do we know they are not responding due to not being able to sequence and use language in the right order, or not being able to plan a motor sequence? These are interesting questions, are…