The P.L.A.Y. Project would like to mention a very special person who has been instrumental in advocating for and bringing P.L.A.Y. to Ohio, where we have trained over 100 Home Consultants to date and plan to train more this year. Margaret Conrad, who retired from her position as Director of Four Oaks Early Childhood Programs...
P.L.A.Y. Project Home Consultant Laura Zdravkovski was recently crowned Mrs. Michigan, and will be using Autism: Connecting the Missing Pieces as her platform to promote autism treatment options as she prepares to compete in Mrs. America on August 28 in Arizona. We asked to her to answer a few questions about herself and her role...
Dr. Solomon has been diagnosing and treating children with autism spectrum disorders for more than 25 years. His experience has taught him that every families’ journey to an autism diagnosis is different, as are their reactions to hearing the diagnosis for the first time. In the story Confronting ‘That Autism Thing,’ featured on NPR in 2008,...
What are you doing? What happened? Why did you do that? Why are you mad? These are some common examples of questions that many parents ask their children every day without necessarily thinking about their child’s ability to answer each question appropriately. Common child responses to these questions might include: ...
