Please can you tell me if all autistic learners require special needs . To begin with, let me give you a few common charasteristics of those in the autism spectrum. Then I'll answer your question. Autism Spectrum Symptoms or "Red Flags". As you know, those with autism can vary in their abilities as well as communication, social skills, interests, and behaviors. Some students have severe difficulties and others just minor. So the first thing to look at with this question is some overall red flag behaviors of autism. The cdc states ... A person with ASD might: Not respond to their name by 12 months of age Not point at objects to show interest (point at an airplane flying over) by 14 months Not play "pretend" games (pretend to "feed" a doll) by 18 months Avoid eye contact and want to be alone Have trouble understanding other people's feelings or talking about their own feelings Have delayed speech and language skills Repeat words or phrases over and over (echolalia) Give unrelated answers to questions Get upset by minor changes Have obsessive interests Flap their hands, rock their body, or spin in circles Have unusual reactions to the way things sound, smell, taste, look, or feel That being said, each autistic learner is unique and has different abilities, so the answer is...It Depends... It depends on where the autistic learner is in the spectrum regarding requiring special needs assistance. I have worked with students in...

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Please can you tell me if all autistic learners require special needs . To begin with, let me give you a few common charasteristics of those in the autism spectrum. Then I'll answer your question. Autism Spectrum Symptoms or "Red Flags". As you know, those with autism can vary in their abilities as well as communication, social skills, interests, and behaviors. Some students have severe difficulties and others just minor. So the first thing to look at with this question is some overall red flag behaviors of autism. The cdc states ...  A person with ASD might:  Not respond to their name by 12 months of age Not point at objects to show interest (point at an airplane flying over) by 14 months Not play "pretend" games (pretend to "feed" a doll) by 18 months Avoid eye contact and want to be alone Have trouble understanding other people's feelings or talking about their own feelings Have delayed speech and language skills Repeat words or phrases over and over (echolalia) Give unrelated answers to questions Get upset by minor changes Have obsessive interests Flap their hands, rock their body, or spin in circles Have unusual reactions to the way things sound, smell, taste, look, or feel     That being said, each autistic learner is unique and has different abilities, so the answer is...It Depends... It depends on where the autistic learner is in the spectrum regarding requiring special needs assistance. I have worked with students in...

NPR Commentator and novelist Shelley Fraser Mickle takes on a new title, Publisher, with the startup company Wild Onion Press, Books Starring Kids with Physical Differences. I fell in love with stories when I was five. My grandmother from Tennessee, who had lost her husband in the flu epidemic of 1917, came for long visits. My mother told me it was my job to make her take a nap every afternoon, so I'd lead her to the big double bed where she'd read to me. As she lay against the pillow, I'd touch the skin on her face, as delicate as lace. Her permed-gray hair was tinted pine-needle red, and she wore it in a style similar to a pot scrubber. She was one of the best playmates I ever had, and I loved her fiercely. When she read to me, her voice lapped up and down on a story like an ocean's tide. When she dozed off, I'd elbow her to get her voice going again. The fact that she could read and I couldn't was a troubling power that she had over me. She could boss me around and I'd have to do what she said; in fact, everybody who bossed me around could read. So at the breakfast table I began asking for the newspaper, and then I'd pretend to read it. I stayed a long time with my arms holding the paper up, my eyes going back and forth on the print, because...

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 NPR Commentator and novelist Shelley Fraser Mickle takes on a new title, Publisher, with the startup company Wild Onion Press, Books Starring Kids with Physical Differences.  I fell in love with stories when I was five. My grandmother from Tennessee, who had lost her husband in the flu epidemic of 1917, came for long visits. My mother told me it was my job to make her take a nap every afternoon, so I'd lead her to the big double bed where she'd read to me. As she lay against the pillow, I'd touch the skin on her face, as delicate as lace. Her permed-gray hair was tinted pine-needle red, and she wore it in a style similar to a pot scrubber. She was one of the best playmates I ever had, and I loved her fiercely. When she read to me, her voice lapped up and down on a story like an ocean's tide. When she dozed off, I'd elbow her to get her voice going again.  The fact that she could read and I couldn't was a troubling power that she had over me. She could boss me around and I'd have to do what she said; in fact, everybody who bossed me around could read. So at the breakfast table I began asking for the newspaper, and then I'd pretend to read it. I stayed a long time with my arms holding the paper up, my eyes going back and forth on the print, because...

Children on the autism spectrum need to be provided with innovative strategies that enable them to learn to negotiate effectively in the real world. This is so they will feel accepted and have the proper skills to become productive adults. Pretend City Children's Museum provides exactly that each and every month! Pretend City, a non-profit organization, is an interactive children's museum with real-life interconnected exhibits such as a home, restaurant, farm, grocery store, and much more. It is designed to serve all children, aged infant through ten years of age, alongside their families. We are committed to parent education as well as to the rich "learning through play" that starts from the minute any child walks through our doors. Our mission is to provide a community that builds better brains through fun, whole body learning experiences, and empowers children and their grown-ups to meaningfully connect with and expand their world. As such, we are a perfect learning environment for children on the autism spectrum! Current research states that one in every 91 children in the U.S. is on the autism spectrum. Autism ranks as the third highest developmental disability next to speech and language impairment and specific learning disabilities. Pretend City is dedicated to making access possible for every child who enters the museum and to give every family an equal opportunity to play and learn together in our immersive educational environment. Families have a great need for safe and accepting experiences that children with autism and their families...

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Children on the autism spectrum need to be provided with innovative strategies that enable them to learn to negotiate effectively in the real world. This is so they will feel accepted and have the proper skills to become productive adults. Pretend City Children's Museum provides exactly that each and every month! Pretend City, a non-profit organization, is an interactive children's museum with real-life interconnected exhibits such as a home, restaurant, farm, grocery store, and much more. It is designed to serve all children, aged infant through ten years of age, alongside their families. We are committed to parent education as well as to the rich "learning through play" that starts from the minute any child walks through our doors. Our mission is to provide a community that builds better brains through fun, whole body learning experiences, and empowers children and their grown-ups to meaningfully connect with and expand their world. As such, we are a perfect learning environment for children on the autism spectrum!  Current research states that one in every 91 children in the U.S. is on the autism spectrum. Autism ranks as the third highest developmental disability next to speech and language impairment and specific learning disabilities. Pretend City is dedicated to making access possible for every child who enters the museum and to give every family an equal opportunity to play and learn together in our immersive educational environment. Families have a great need for safe and accepting experiences that children with autism and their families...

Pretend City museum offers a safe, educational space for kids with autism to learn through play.

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The pandemic shifted how parents of children with special needs find support. Virtual groups became the norm: no childcare needed, no travel, no scheduling around therapy appointments. For many parents, that accessibility was transformative. But not all virtual groups are helpful. Some amplify anxiety. Posts spiral into worst-case scenarios. Misinformation spreads faster than corrections. Members compete over whose situation is worse. You leave feeling more stressed than when you joined. That's not support. It's a problem disguised as community. The difference between a group that helps and one that harms comes down to structure, moderation, and purpose. Here's how to tell which is which before you waste weeks in the wrong place. What Makes a Virtual Support Group Supportive. A helpful group doesn't just exist. It's actively managed, with clear enforcement of rules and redirection of off-topic threads. Misinformation gets corrected with sources. The signal-to-noise ratio stays high. Moderation quality is the single biggest predictor of whether a group will help you or drain you. Look for: Posted rules that members reference in comments. If the rules exist but nobody follows them, moderation is performative. Admins who redirect off-topic posts rather than deleting them silently. Transparency matters. A mod who explains why a post was removed builds trust; one who just nukes content creates resentment. Drama threads that get locked with an explanation. Conflict happens. Good moderation doesn't pretend it doesn't; it contains it. If you scroll through a week of posts and can't...

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The pandemic shifted how parents of children with special needs find support. Virtual groups became the norm: no childcare needed, no travel, no scheduling around therapy appointments. For many parents, that accessibility was transformative. But not all virtual groups are helpful. Some amplify anxiety. Posts spiral into worst-case scenarios. Misinformation spreads faster than corrections. Members compete over whose situation is worse. You leave feeling more stressed than when you joined. That's not support. It's a problem disguised as community. The difference between a group that helps and one that harms comes down to structure, moderation, and purpose. Here's how to tell which is which before you waste weeks in the wrong place. What Makes a Virtual Support Group Supportive. A helpful group doesn't just exist. It's actively managed, with clear enforcement of rules and redirection of off-topic threads. Misinformation gets corrected with sources. The signal-to-noise ratio stays high.  Moderation quality is the single biggest predictor of whether a group will help you or drain you. Look for:   Posted rules that members reference in comments. If the rules exist but nobody follows them, moderation is performative.  Admins who redirect off-topic posts rather than deleting them silently. Transparency matters. A mod who explains why a post was removed builds trust; one who just nukes content creates resentment.  Drama threads that get locked with an explanation. Conflict happens. Good moderation doesn't pretend it doesn't; it contains it.  If you scroll through a week of posts and can't...

A while ago I posted about my daughter, Little Miss Adorable's newest words and our struggles in Speech and Language Therapy. ( Little Miss Adorable, Speech, Language and Swear Words and Toddler Speech, Language and Self Defense) Little Miss Adorable has Prader-Willi Syndrome and the very low muscle tone associated with it. All Little Miss Adorable's muscles are floppy, including the muscles used for speech. Little Miss Adorable sees a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) to learn to speak, as well as an Occupational Therapist (OT) to help Little Miss Adorable develop her muscles. Normally an OT focuses on fine motor development, but Little Miss Adorable's OT helps with fine and gross motor development. What's the difference between fine and gross motor ability? You shall see. Little Miss Adorable is 2 ½ years old and cannot walk. She bum shuffles her way through life, usually holding an armful of baby dolls. She gives them bottles, puts them to bed, changes their diapers and wipes their bums. She holds out the (pretend-used) baby wipe at me and says, "Eeeew! Stinky!" (Don't ask where she learned that one from.) If I try to support Little Miss Adorable in a standing position by holding her hips, she collapses like a wet noodle after a minute. She clearly has weakness in her gross (full body) muscles. Little Miss Adorable's fine motor ability is quite good — she can...

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 A while ago I posted about my daughter, Little Miss Adorable's newest words and our struggles in Speech and Language Therapy. ( Little Miss Adorable, Speech, Language and Swear Words  and  Toddler Speech, Language and Self Defense)    Little Miss Adorable has Prader-Willi Syndrome and the very low muscle tone associated with it. All Little Miss Adorable's muscles are floppy, including the muscles used for speech. Little Miss Adorable sees a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) to learn to speak, as well as an Occupational Therapist (OT) to help Little Miss Adorable develop her muscles.   Normally an OT focuses on fine motor development, but Little Miss Adorable's OT helps with fine and gross motor development. What's the difference between fine and gross motor ability?    You shall see.   Little Miss Adorable is 2 ½ years old and cannot walk. She bum shuffles her way through life, usually holding an armful of baby dolls. She gives them bottles, puts them to bed, changes their diapers and wipes their bums. She holds out the (pretend-used) baby wipe at me and says, "Eeeew! Stinky!" (Don't ask where she learned that one from.)   If I try to support Little Miss Adorable in a standing position by holding her hips, she collapses like a wet noodle after a minute. She clearly has weakness in her gross (full body) muscles.   Little Miss Adorable's fine motor ability is quite good — she can...

Every child is a special needs child. Most of those special needs fall within our expectations, and that’s the reason why we don’t really consider them "special." But other needs are completely unexpected and require a lot of effort on our part to fulfill. The only first hand experience I’ve had with a special needs child was with my first born. He was born after only 28 weeks of gestation and my wife and I had to wait almost one month before we could hold him in our arms. After we took him home, we had to feed him roughly a tablespoon of milk every two hours, and we nervously had to wait almost another full month until he was heavy enough (five pounds) to have hernia surgery. His first year or so, we closely followed his development, and fortunately everything turned out as well as it could. I don’t pretend to compare my personal experience to the one that some parents of special needs children have to endure for years, but I have no doubt that Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) can help. NLP is a relatively new field that focuses on studying the structure of our subjective experiences. All of our experiences are subjective, and figuring out what happens internally (how we manage to get from point A to point B), gives us the power to choose our destinations and make sure point B is a positive state for us and for the person with whom we are communicating. The...

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Every child is a special needs child. Most of those special needs fall within our expectations, and that’s the reason why we don’t really consider them "special." But other needs are completely unexpected and require a lot of effort on our part to fulfill. The only first hand experience I’ve had with a special needs child was with my first born. He was born after only 28 weeks of gestation and my wife and I had to wait almost one month before we could hold him in our arms. After we took him home, we had to feed him roughly a tablespoon of milk every two hours, and we nervously had to wait almost another full month until he was heavy enough (five pounds) to have hernia surgery. His first year or so, we closely followed his development, and fortunately everything turned out as well as it could. I don’t pretend to compare my personal experience to the one that some parents of special needs children have to endure for years, but I have no doubt that Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) can help. NLP is a relatively new field that focuses on studying the structure of our subjective experiences. All of our experiences are subjective, and figuring out what happens internally (how we manage to get from point A to point B), gives us the power to choose our destinations and make sure point B is a positive state for us and for the person with whom we are communicating. The...

As a pediatric nurse practitioner, I remember frequently telling my parents that they know their children better than I ever will. Now, as a mother of a little girl with Down syndrome, I know that to be true. I will always know my daughter better than any doctor, therapist, or teacher. I know what my daughter is capable of. My daughter Ellie, at age 2, is full of spunk and mischief. She pretends that she cannot hear me when in reality, she is ignoring me. I have been told by many that Ellie "just doesn't understand what you are asking her" when in reality, like any two year-old, she knows exactly what she is doing. I am not saying that I know all the ins and outs of Down syndrome, that I know every medical issue, or that I know all of the therapy exercises that a child with Down syndrome needs, but I am saying that as her mother, her number one care provider, I know my daughter the best. After Ellie was born and the label of Down syndrome was slapped across her forehead, I heard many things such as she cannot or will not be able to do x, y, or z. Confused and aggravated, I started to research. Some of it was medical research, but I looked a blogs and web articles. I devoured those articles and stories written by other parents of children with Down syndrome. From them, I...

A mother advocates for her daughter with Down syndrome, challenging expectations and emphasizing personalized knowledge and high goals.

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 As a pediatric nurse practitioner, I remember frequently telling my parents that they know their children better than I ever will. Now, as a mother of a little girl with Down syndrome, I know that to be true. I will always know my daughter better than any doctor, therapist, or teacher. I know what my daughter is capable of.    My daughter Ellie, at age 2, is full of spunk and mischief. She pretends that she cannot hear me when in reality, she is ignoring me. I have been told by many that Ellie "just doesn't understand what you are asking her" when in reality, like any two year-old, she knows exactly what she is doing. I am not saying that I know all the ins and outs of Down syndrome, that I know every medical issue, or that I know all of the therapy exercises that a child with Down syndrome needs, but I am saying that as her mother, her number one care provider, I know my daughter the best.   After Ellie was born and the label of Down syndrome was slapped across her forehead, I heard many things such as she cannot or will not be able to do x, y, or z. Confused and aggravated, I started to research. Some of it was medical research, but I looked a blogs and web articles. I devoured those articles and stories written by other parents of children with Down syndrome. From them, I...

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