Spectrum Educational Services

Due to renovations at CORE association, ASDreams new session begins Monday, October 17.

Sue Thomas, Gerry Gabrielle and Myles Bingham coauthored an article on using the HALT strategy. It is an acronym that encourages caregivers to stop and question where a negative behaviour might be coming from. It identifies four basic needs that, left unmet, could lead to a behaviour issue. They are using this strategy with teenagers, but I see it  applying to a broad range of ages and abilities. For more information on how they are using the HALT strategy scroll down the May 2016 edition of the Autism Around Alberta newsletter here . Save Save

Here are links for resources I referred to recently. The  Social Thinking  website has great information about key social thinking concepts and links to their materials. Advance OT created the Good Sense workshop which helps find the "Just Right" state for learning. If the funky tune "Keep Your Body in the Goup" is still playing in your head you can replay the  video . You can find more of my son's music here . If there was a resource I've missed, please contact me and I'll add it to this post.

Rules , by Cynthia Lord, is the top of my Autism resource list for: siblings fiction Grade 4-7 Read my review here . Other resources I use regularly are listed here .