Monthly Archives: May 2014

ENTHUSIASM, 5th essential, chapter 8 in Anat Baniel’s Kids Beyond Limits Wow, this chapter says a lot It’s like the magic spice to make the meal of your child’s improvement delectable Here’s the deal: It’s not jumping up and down … Continue reading →

No one wants to hear this since to OT/ PT “help” is usually free, …. but I once had a wonderful little client, who had advanced from almost completely immobile to moving her arms and legs in exploratory fashion she … Continue reading →

Make no mistake about Mistakes, everything is food for learning: Anat Baniel, chapter 6: Variation We are going through, Monday by Monday, Anat Baniel’s brilliant book, Kids Beyond Limits. She starts with three chapters about unleashing brain plasticity and the … Continue reading →

acceptance for now , excitement for the possibilities I’m on the last chapter of Raun Kaufman’s, Autism Breakthrough. It’s about attitude. It’s about mindfulness. It’s about hope. He distills it like this: nonjudgmental acceptance of your child right now, exactly … Continue reading →

Repetitive motion, good for ’em, and a suggestion One of the reasons, the child who recently had an intensive series of lessons made such amazing progress when she went back home was this. No more fighting  her stimming. In Autism … Continue reading →

Essential #2 : Slow, From Kids Beyond Limits, by Anat Baniel Going fast, you can only do what you’ve already done Crazy, crazy, the way educators, be they in schools, or well meaning OTs and PTs with special needs kids … Continue reading →

Ed Catmull, co founder of Pixar In a fear-based, failure-averse culture,  people will consciously or unconsciously avoid risk.  They will seek instead to repeat something safe  that’s been good enough in the past.    Their work will be derivative,  not … Continue reading →