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Compliance isn’t Respect

March 31, 2023 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

“Compliance isn’t respect, and noncompliance isn’t a lack of respect” is a big lesson for adults to learn. One thing that has continually blown me away as I’ve learned and grown on this journey of […]

Things We Don’t Know

December 28, 2022 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

“Sometimes, my son asks me a question. If I tell him I don’t know the answer—and I truly don’t know the answer—he’ll get mad and protest, ‘you DO know!’ How do I explain to him […]

Bo-ring…

December 15, 2022 The Occuplaytional Therapist Comments Off

I have a child on my caseload who is Autistic and a “gestalt language learner” — a descriptive term for children who learn to speak in phrases or scripts (as opposed to learning to speak […]