Lisa Ackerman – Founder of TACA
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Autism Mom and advocate Lisa Ackerman joins Nancy Alspaugh-Jackson and Shannon Penrod, to tell the amazing story of how TACA was born. TACA is a non-profit, parent organization that supplies resources and support to families with children on the Autism spectrum. Listen in as Lisa shares her vision for the future of Autism and how parents can access REAL HELP NOW!
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Autism Live Wednesday, September 12, 2012
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Today?s Autism Live features a definition of Asperger?s Syndrome, and interviews with Board Certified Behavior Analyst Evelyn Gould talking about Establishing Operation and TACA founder Lisa Ackerman shares the mission of her organization and her vision for the future of Autism.
Autism Live is a production of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), headquartered in Tarzana, California, and with offices throughout the United States and around the globe. For more information on therapy for autism and other related disorders, visit the CARD website at http://centerforautism.com
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Making a Snack – Adaptive Skills
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On today?s show host Shannon Penrod shares tips on how to help kids on the Autism spectrum learn the fine art of making themselves a snack. Learn helpful tips to make this lesson a success.
Autism Live is a production of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), headquartered in Tarzana, California, and with offices throughout the United States and around the globe. For more information on therapy for autism and other related disorders, visit the CARD website at http://centerforautism.com
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Just a Lil Autism Blog
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Autism Live host Shannon Penrod congratulates Autism Blogger and Dad, Jim Walter, on his blog, Just a Lil Blog. This is the dad who wrote about going to Target and finding a cashier who was clearly on the spectrum. He wrote about it and a roller coaster of viral attention followed. Hear why Shannon thinks this is a blog you should be reading.
Autism Live is a production of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), headquartered in Tarzana, California, and with offices throughout the United States and around the globe. For more information on therapy for autism and other related disorders, visit the CARD website at http://centerforautism.com
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OT Tip Push Pin Art
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Motor skills are important for children on the Autism spectrum. We need to help them strengthen the muscles in the hands and fingers so they can do the tripod grasp appropriately, but it?s not always easy to do that with a pencil or a crayon. Try ?Push Pin Art?. Follow easy instructions to help kids create fun art while strengthening their pre-writing skills!
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Eat Seasonal for Health
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Getting our kids to eat a healthy, inexpensive diet doesn?t have to be hard if we follow a few simple guidelines. In fact it can be fun and help them to develop other skills as well.
Autism Live is a production of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), headquartered in Tarzana, California, and with offices throughout the United States and around the globe. For more information on therapy for autism and other related disorders, visit the CARD website at http://centerforautism.com
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Autism and Learning Chinese?
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A viewer asks if she should allow her ?linguistically interested? 10 year old with Autism to learn Chinese after school, or will it just confuse him? Autism Mom, Shannon Penrod, weighs in on the subject and how and when to deal with members of our family who don?t understand what our kids are capable of. Spoiler Alert ? she whole heartedly thinks that encouraging children on the spectrum to do things that are of interest of to them is a GREAT idea!
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Dr. Ennio Cipani on Parent Training and Punishment
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In an interview at the 2012 ABA International Convention in Seattle, Dr. Ennio Cipani details how effective parent training can be if done correctly. Later in the interview Dr. Cipani talks about the true definition of punishment and how and when it should be used appropriately.
Autism Live is a production of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), headquartered in Tarzana, California, and with offices throughout the United States and around the globe. For more information on therapy for autism and other related disorders, visit the CARD website at http://centerforautism.com
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Autism Live – Tuesday, September 11th, 2012
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Today?s Autism Live features topics on teaching tri-pod grasp, getting our kids to eat healthy fall produce, teaching social and cognition skills and Autism Blogger Jim Walter.
Autism Live is a production of the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD), headquartered in Tarzana, California, and with offices throughout the United States and around the globe. For more information on therapy for autism and other related disorders, visit the CARD website at http://centerforautism.com
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Reducing Stress for Autism Parents
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Autism Mom Shannon Penrod shares tips on reducing stress by getting enough rest, how to prioritize rest and set yourself up for success. The life of an Autism parent is full of stress, full of things to do. It?s all too easy to put our own need to refresh on back burner. Shannon shares the importance of changing that behavior, in order to help ourselves and to help our children on this journey through Autism.
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