Free webinar at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time (US), February 18, 2026 Learn about Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy and its use for autistic individuals. About the speaker: Amanda Tami, LPC, BCBA, The Johnson Center for Child Health and Development. Amanda holds a The post EMDR Therapy and Autism appeared first on Autism Research Institute.| Autism Research Institute
Free webinar at 1 p.m. Eastern time (US), Wednesday, January 7, 2026 This presentation will focus on early interventions aimed at improving social communication and spoken language outcomes for autistic children with significant cognitive and language delays in early elementary grades. Evidence-based strategies will be discussed, including alternative, augmentative communication supports and The post Evidence That Speaks: Prioritizing Proven Communication Supports for Non-Speaking Autistic ...| Autism Research Institute
Free webinar at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time (US), December 10, 2025 Holidays can be challenging for autistic individuals. Amanda Tami, LPC, BCBA, will share tips, tricks, and suggestions to help you plan for a merry holiday season. About the speaker: Amanda Tami, LPC, BCBA, The post Holidays and Autism appeared first on Autism Research Institute.| Autism Research Institute
We’ll investigate language peculiarities and development in autism from the perspective of different sensory perceptual processes and cognitive styles; then we can see that autistic (including non-verbal) people do communicate (though sometimes their attempts to transmit information are unnoticed by their non-autistic communicative partners); they do not lack communicative intent but rather often use unconventional means of communication.| Autism Research Institute
To remain regulated and functioning, we need to be able to dissipate stress. When this is not done effectively, it can have an explosive result, leading to a meltdown or a (consequent) shutdown.| Embrace Autism
And here is the second part of my Autism Dogs journey! Having been accepted onto the programme, I went up to visit the Autism Dogs farm to work on my Advanced Task List and meet some of the dogs…| Finding Hope
What's inside this article: An overview of the escalation cycle, how the brain functions during different emotional states, and evidence-based de-escalation strategies that are used in non-violent crisis intervention to defuse meltdowns and outbursts. As| Raising An Extraordinary Person
We see them far too often. Videos of an autistic child (or adult) in extreme distress, shared across the internet in the glorious name of “autism awareness”, perhaps even with a divisive or gatekeeping comment such as “this is what real autism looks like”. The motivation, of course, is to display the problems that all too often kept behind closed doors. And whereas the issues do need discussing and addressing, perhaps there’s a better way to do so than uploading […] The post Ten v...| Autistic Not Weird
