Excerpt from the new ebook I am writing entitled: Top ten strategies to help your high functioning autism spectrum child flourish. This is the first page of my first chapter: Understanding, Analyzing and Resolving Problem Behaviors. Families are often looking for help for an ASD child because of problem behaviors. Many of these problem behaviors [...]
Last post I talked about helping children sleep in their own beds rather than in their parents’ beds. Today I want to talk about just trying to help the child fall asleep period, no matter where they are (although a regular spot does help!). Most of these ideas help any person fall asleep, not just [...]
Although children sleeping in bed with their parents is not unusual, it seems even more common for children on the autism spectrum. That is just based on my clinical experience though, not on any research. It often seems to be rooted in anxiety. It just gets harder at night. There are noises and shadows, worry [...]