Communication and Autism

Welcome to my first blog post. This blog is a compliment to my website www.twowaystreet.net.au and I hope it becomes a way for people to share similar ideas and to build on the ideas and comments o...

With the extremely large number of apps available for iPads, even those for autism are in abundance, and experts say it’s important to know which are most effective for students with different needs.

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Dan Selec, whose son was diagnosed with autism, had a big idea: to train and then hire autistic students to work with technology.

Please sign up for my free newsletter full of great tips and ideas at http://www.therhythmtree.com/user-registrationThis Music Therapy video illustrates the following:Combining music with the use of an articulation app such as Speech Therapy for...

A whimsical device worthy of Rube Goldberg was the culmination of nine weeks of invention, reinvention, tinkering, and trial and error by 15 young adults on the autism spectrum who came together to create it through the taking part in a...

The new captain jumped from the deck, fully dressed, and sprinted through the water. A former lifeguard, he kept his eyes on his victim as he headed straight for the couple swimming between their anchored sportfisher and the beach.

Many authors of parenting books on autism often comment that they wrote their book because of difficulty in finding a practical, informative book on the topic o

Literacy Lab is a fabulous piece of software for use as part of balanced literacy instruction from Mayer Johnson. The software is aimed at emergent readers and writers, providing a range of simple,...

The Breaking the ICE Conference is bringing together people who can’t speak, so they communicate in alternative ways using high-tech computers and low-tech symbol and letter boards, in Toronto June 7-9.

A young designer creates an ingenious set of cooking tools (with accompanying app) that enables her autistic brother to cook for himself.

We are happy to welcome Shareka Bentham back to our site with more AAC intervention ideas. Earlier in the year, she shared ideas for AAC intervention on a field trip to the zoo, playing Stop and Go...

One of the things SLPs frequently do at the start of their therapy sessions is have some casual conversations with their clients to catch up on what happened since their last visit.

Join Erik X. Raj, M.S., CCC-SLP as he describes the importance of of making good news phone calls to the parents of a student making progress in speech therapy.