Playtime for Children on the Spectrum
Children with Autism have many challenges with socialization and communication. They find it extremely difficult to relate to others; especially to their peers. Instead of playing with toys in...
View ArticleDIR®/Floortime Model and Creative Arts Therapy
In recent years, there has been a great effort to meet a rising need and demand for innovative and therapeutic services that can give children on the Autism Spectrum the best chance to develop...
View ArticleArt Therapy for Children with ADHD and Anxiety Disorders
Those of us who have children with ADHD or have worked professionally with children with this disorder know the challenges of trying to engage them in an activity that they can sustain AND use their...
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The Power of Creative Play with ASD Children
Children with Autism have many challenges with socialization and communication. They find it extremely difficult to relate to others; especially to their peers. Instead of playing with toys in...
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Art Therapy for Adolescents with Autism
Description of the population There are major behavioral challenges with most typically developing adolescents. However, when dealing with an adolescent with Autism even more behaviors can surface...
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Making Art Making Friends Children with ASD Facing Social Anxieties
Parents with Autistic children want to do everything they can to protect their child; especially when it comes to social situations. They avoid putting their children in circumstances that are...
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Family Art Therapy and the Child with Special Needs
Family members are not independent of one another. We need to view the family as a part of a system of specified relationships, adopted roles of behavior and unconscious and conscious rules of...
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“Look What I Did!” Developing a Child’s Artistic Skills in Art Therapy
Art Therapy as opposed to Art Education generally emphasizes process over the finished art product. We as art therapists are not instructors in artistic skills, but rather facilitators of artistic...
View ArticleChildren with Autism and SPD: Behavior=Sensory=Behavior
Most children who are diagnosed on the autism spectrum have behavioral issues and sensory integration issues as well. But when and how can we tell which is which? Well in a nut shell……you can’t and...
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ASD and Those Challenging Behaviors- How, Why and Help!
Raising a child who has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can be so challenging; especially when they display behaviors that are hard to understand. It can be even more difficult to help your child if...
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