Autism Therapy: Ask Deb About Autism!

Autism Education… One Person At A Time.

Welcome To Ask Deb About Autism

The Ask Deb About Autism blog doesn’t try to solve the world’s problems.  I’m not a scientist, autism therapist, Rhodes Scholar or the like.  I am a mom.  A mom who is caught in the world of autism. Autism came into our lives in 2002, officially, although I suspect it had been there for [...]

Autism Therapy: Pragmatic speech therapy

All autism therapies are crucial in helping our children, especially early on.  Today I am focusing on one that can help early and even later in development.  Pragmatic speech therapy is just as crucial as any autism therapy.  If a child doesn’t understand the language he or she is learning to speak, then what good [...]

Autism Therapy: The Back To School IEP

Wow!  This week, its back to school for most of our kids.  And it is at this time that most of us take a breath and consider:  is my child’s IEP working for them?  Is their autism therapy, teacher, classroom setting, etc. appropriate (yes, we know that word all too well, don’t we?) for our [...]

Autism Therapy: New Years Realizations

We made it through another holiday season.  This year was wonderful.  We were able to make it through Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year’s with hardly a scratch.  No autism therapy, no special trips to a therapist (for mom either)!  It was a good year.
New Years Eve was spent playing Wii Disney Trivia with our boys.  [...]