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Autism Eye Contact: It’s Not Easy for ASD Kids
Eye contact avoidance is an issue that troubles many parents with children on the spectrum. Should your child with autism be encouraged to make eye contact; and how should the child’s avoidance be...
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Impact of COVID-19 on Children’s Social and Emotional Skills
As COVID-19 restrictions continue, here’s how to make use of resources in the comfort of your own home for developing your child’s social-emotional skills. COVID-19 has impacted all children, but some...
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High Schooler Launches Autism Support Group
A sister’s attempt to help her autistic brother develop social skills became an initiative uniting people of all abilities. My brother Troy is remarkable. I can ask him what day of the week any date...
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Social Anxiety: Through the Eyes of an Autism Mom
Follow the account of an autism mom whose daughter, despite attending various therapies, began to revert to previous behaviors due to social anxiety. My youngest daughter is autistic and suffers from...
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Safe Socialization During COVID-19
Here are a few ideas on how you can help your child build his/her social skills within the home as COVID-19 continues. We are now living in the time of COVID-19, where life is unpredictable and...
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An Autistic Teen Girl’s Tips on How To Make and Maintain Friends
Advice often means more when it comes from someone who has walked in your shoes. Perhaps these tips for making friends from an autistic teen will spark some inspiration! There’s a common misconception...
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Five Social Skills Activities For Children With Autism
A psychology and mental health expert shares her top tips for how you can help your autistic child develop good social skills. While it’s a common myth that autism causes a child to be anti-social,...
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Excellent Ways to Help Your ASD Child Make Friends
Friendships have an important role to play in our overall well-being and quality of life. Unfortunately, many children with autism do not establish friendships and continue to have difficulties doing...
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Friendships From the Perspective of an Autism Mom
Friendships can form at all stages of life, but the process of making friends can be challenging for children with autism. All friendships are defined differently in every stage of life. Toddlers and...
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An Autistic Teen Girl’s Tips on How To Make and Maintain Friends
Advice often means more when it comes from someone who has walked in your shoes. Perhaps these tips for making friends from an autistic teen will spark some inspiration! There’s a common misconception...
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Social Behavior and Autism: Can Social Skills Be Taught?
When someone is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), social cues, language skills and the ability to decipher what the other person or people are expecting, socially, can be difficult or...
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Is Face Blindness Linked to Autism?
Parents with children on the spectrum often speak about their kids’ difficulty recognizing faces, even those of friends and relatives. Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, means a person cannot recognize...
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Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and Autism: Is There a Link?
An overview of rejection sensitive dysphoria, a condition that causes an intense emotional response to real or perceived rejection, and its possible connection to autism spectrum disorder. I watched...
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Demanding or Outspoken? Let’s Explore
How to help children become aware of social cues that could be beneficial when faced with challenging situations. Suppose an individual with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is aware of what he/she...
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How to be a True Friend: A Reflection on Belonging and Relationships
An autistic advocate draws from her personal experiences to offer advice on remaining true as a friend and building lasting relationships. “Once, at the ANCA World Autism Festival in Vancouver, B.C.,...
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Autism and Humor: Laughing on the Spectrum!
The sound of Johnny’s laughter reverberated off the walls of the RV they had rented for the weekend. Camping was a rarity in their family, as was the sound of his giggles. His mother, Connie, drank in...
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Autism and Social Anxiety: Overlap, Similarities, and Differences
Becky beamed as she walked out the front door of her friend’s house, hurried down the steps and out to her mom’s car. The excitement of the party was overshadowed a bit by another kind of...
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How to Make Friends on the Playground With ASD
The playground represents a time for having fun where children laugh, play, run around, and form friendships. However, for a child with autism the playground is like being lost in a foreign country...
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How TV and Movies Have Helped Me Gain Social Skills
When I was younger, just a child, I used to spend a lot of time in front of the TV. When I became a teenager and discovered the magic of movies and films, I would try to watch them as much as possible....
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How Does Autism Affect Social Skills?
As parents there are many questions we ask ourselves when it comes to our children with autism and, in this article, we will discuss one of those questions: how does autism affect social skills? We...
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