The Quiet Crisis Next Door

Tag: ABA

  • Gratitude & Some Viewing/Listening

    BCBA1 For over two years now as the assistant clinical supervisor for Tony’s ABA programs, you have patiently and quietly interacted with our family each month, providing support to us, Casandra, and each supervising BCBA…and even by my calendar a thank you is long overdue. I am so grateful for the way you believe in…

  • French Fry Flexibility

    About 3 years ago, I had just headed out on a walk with Tony and Hannah when Andy called me. The garage door had broken free from its rails and he was trapped inside the garage. Because I was strength training pretty heavily still at that time, I was physically the strongest person in our…

  • Using ABA To Calm Some Chaos

    Anyone working with our son quickly finds out that he wants everything to go exactly the way he wants it to go 100% of the time…and that he is very determined about trying to arrange things to get exactly that. There are many reasons of course why that cannot be encouraged, ranging from the fact…

  • Resurrecting Public Therapy

    The cashier at Bashas’ looked at me as she pulled Tony’s bag of suckers across the scanner and said, “I haven’t seen you guys in a while.” Her eyes crinkled around the corners, so I could see that she was smiling even though her mask covered much of her face. A whole year I thought,…

  • Troubleshooting Telehealth Therapy

    I had the pleasure of catching up a bit with Gena on the phone yesterday while Emily did some therapy work with Tony. I enjoy our conversations so much I barely registered that we had been talking for nearly 45 minutes before I had to end the call to participate in an OT telehealth session.…

  • Part of Our New Norm: Infection Control & Home Based Therapy

    My, how the world has changed. So, let’s just start with me admitting I am not one of those individuals that enjoys cleaning. Nope. Not even a little bit. Next, let’s just add that because of my own allergy and asthma related symptoms (combined with Tony’s desire to lick many surfaces best left unmouthed), I…

  • Waking Up To The New Norm

    This is a post where I feel almost as if a leaf-blower is swooshing through the folds of my brain, whisking away words like decaying leaves and leaving me uncertain how to best proceed. Originally, I planned for a different topic. However, I do think local events of the past week need to be addressed.…

  • Picturing Community Safety

    At the meeting place of Tony’s growth rate, his sensory differences, the profundity of his Autism, his intense impulsivity, and his heavily delayed risk assessment beats the heart of some of my deepest fears for our son’s future. We remain racing against time, have been engaged in every strategy we can think of for years…

  • Some Therapy Tie-ins

    This week’s post is all about tying up a few therapy notes loose ends. I strive to be comprehensive enough in each post to adequately address an issue and be useful to those who may need to try similar strategies or techniques. However, some of this past month’s topics were already long enough on words…

  • “I Don’t Like It”

    And no, I’m not talking about the La Usurpadora reboot. Although if I were to be asked, I’d have to confess to thinking that Gabriela Spanic was pretty iconic as the twins in the production she starred in, and therefore no other Paola need apply. Sadly, as much as I’d rather be talking about plot…