Navigating ABA Therapy Together

This article helps grandparents better understand autism, communication differences, sensory needs, routines, boundaries, and practical ways to build a supportive relationship with their grandchild.

This article helps families identify barriers to tooth brushing and build a more comfortable routine using sensory adjustments, visual supports, gradual practice, prompt fading, and appropriate dental or ABA support.

This article helps families understand Functional Communication Training and how children can learn practical requests such as help, break, stop, finished, and more using speech, gestures, pictures, signs, or AAC.

This article helps families identify toilet-training barriers, build predictable routines, use visual and communication supports, respond to accidents without shame, and coordinate home, school, medical, and ABA support.

This article helps parents understand ABA progress reports, including baseline data, mastery criteria, graphs, generalization, treatment goals, and the questions to ask their BCBA during progress reviews.

This article helps families understand AAC options, compare low-tech and high-tech communication tools, ask better questions before choosing a system, and support consistent communication across home, school, and therapy.

This article helps families understand why homework refusal happens and build calmer after-school routines using decompression time, smaller tasks, visual supports, planned breaks, and school coordination.

This article helps families understand how first-then boards work and use them for transitions, homework, hygiene, screen time, and bedtime. It also explains how to choose manageable tasks, motivating next activities, troubleshoot refusal, and build more consistent routines.

This article helps families understand possible causes of school refusal, identify patterns and triggers, explore IEP accommodations, and build a gradual return-to-school plan. It also explains when medical, mental health, school, or ABA support may be helpful.