Care4autism

Shereen Idiculla is the creator of “Learning through Movement” and “Whole body to speech program”. A SLP by profession, she is Hanen certified. She is also a feeding therapist and an AAC coach.   In this interview, we have discussed the following topics:   1.      The importance of movement in brain development. 2.     Primitive reflexes. 3.     The terrible twos and brain development. 4.      Reflex integration followed by motor and sensory integration. 5.       Integration of the right and left hemispheres of the brain. 6.     3 phases of the LRM program and Shereen's roadmap to speech. Congratulations on REALIZE! I gather it is a holistic approach towards communication rather than a piecemeal approach. Bottom-up rather than a top-down approach .  This is actually the first time I'm talking about Realize. It's been a passion of mine for a long time. This thought has been in my head for years. But I never did anything about it. When working towards speech

 Namrata Pai is the founder director @ Magpie speech therapy and co-founder at Magpie think labs. She is a certified speech language pathologist, with over 15 years of hands-on clinical experience in communication paediatric disorders. A gold medallist, in the Hanen program, she is well versed with Oral Placement Therapy, Play Therapy, Structured Teaching, social thinking, LAMP (language acquisition with motor planning), PROMPT (Prompts for restructuring oral muscular phoenetics targets) and PECS ( Picture exchange communication system). Some of her main areas of interest include; Social communication issues in children with ASD, ADHD and LD, AAC,  and naturalistic intervention approaches.                     During the interview, the following points were discussed. Dynamic and domain specific assessments The powerful Test, Teach and Test again concept Executive functions in the context of an SLP Goal setting for young adults on the spectrum Bridging the gap between performance and ex

  So true! This post is by Hari Srinivasan, a Ph.d. neuroscience student at Vanderbilt. Some very interesting pointers have been articulated by Hari. The complexity of the disability, inadequacies in autism research, stressing the importance of inclusive reserach participation, instances where abilities are oversimplified or not adequately understood, reconsidering research methodologies. Please read this informative post. https://time.com/6299599/autism-research-limited-essay/