January 23, 2019
Advances in neuroscience have given us more insight into how the brain processes and retains information. We’re constantly understanding more about how we learn. But because […]
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August 9, 2018
Even though difficulty with language has always been part of the diagnostic criteria for the kids we see with autism, it has often been split into […]
July 11, 2018
Dear Cathi, My 8-year-old son is on the autism spectrum and my husband and I think getting him involved in sports this summer would benefit him. […]
August 29, 2017
There’s an old Simon and Garfunkel song with the lyric, “Slow down, you move to fast. You’ve got to make the morning last…” If you’re a […]
December 21, 2015
We recently posted an article on Facebook about diagnosing girls on the spectrum and it yielded some good questions. Dear Cathi, My daughter, Emily, is an […]
June 1, 2015
One of the things that gives me great pleasure as the director of In Step is our therapist’s dedication to community education. So many of them […]
August 22, 2014
“Impairments that we see in autism seem to be partly due to different parts of the brain talking too much to each other,” neuroscientist, Ralph-Axel says. […]
June 28, 2014
Just read an interesting article in Medical Xpress. Lyall Constantino headed up a team of researchers looking at the social skills of the parents of autistic […]
April 25, 2014
This article is a fitting follow up to the previous article regarding facial expressions of children with Asperger’s. In this article, Pat Crissey, a leader in […]