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This Quick Tip provides some more accronyms so you can gain a better understanding of many of the terms used in the field.

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We love interacting with our listener’s, and today we take questions from the listener’s. We appreciate everyone of you and the questions that some of you submitted. These are our favorite types of episodes and we love hearing from you and learning more about what you’re interested in hearing about. We will continue to do listener question shows regularly! Enjoy the show!

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Social Skills are a challenging and unique skill to learn and teach. On today’s episode Shawn and Alex discuss tips, mistakes and strategies to help improve your children’s social skills! Enjoy!

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We thought interviewing a grandparent of a child with autism would be very beneficial to the grandparents in our audience. So we invited Alex’s mom on the show as a guest. So come join us as we interview Alex’s Mom, Debbie Marchak and get her unique insights into autism. Enjoy!

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We discuss 26 of the most common warning signs of autism. This is a great episode to help you understand when you might want to get an evaluation done. We also share some tips to helping overcome some of the warning signs themselves. Hopefully, this episode can help some autistic children get diagnosed and receive services much earlier.

List

Eye Contact

Does Not Respond to Name

Won’t Follow Objects With Eyes

Does Not Communicate With Gestures

Minimal or No Language

Repetitive Speech

No Imitation

Lack of Interest in Food

Does Not Show Empathy

Does Not Engage in Imaginary Play

Does Not Understand Feelings

Difficulty Making Friends

Trouble Following Simple Directions

Takes Things to Literally

Does Not Meet Milestones

Unusual Posture or Toe Walking

Moaning

Hand Flapping

Lining Things Up

Excessive Spinning

Repetitive Behaviors

Head Banging

Likes Routines

Does Not Seem to Feel Pain and/or is Not Afraid of Anything

Overly Sensitive to Smells, Tastes, Sounds and Textures

Meltdowns

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Today we have our interview with Kim Edwards BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst). She has more than 20 years of experience in the autism field working mostly, with children but she also has experience with other populations. This episode is packed with information and is probably the most informative episode thus far. Enjoy our interview with BCBA Kim Edwards.

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This week’s Quick Tip of the week is making sure you sanitize the environment during therapy.

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The puzzle piece symbol for autism is very controversial right now. On this episode Alexandria and Shawn talk about the debate over it and explain some of the perspectives people with autism have about the symbol. They also explain why they decided to use a puzzle piece in their logo.

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Sam is back! We have another episode where we discuss swimming with Sam out RBT. He has agreed to do a monthly interview with us so we can discuss many different topics related to autism. If you have questions for Sam, please send them in to us so we can have Sam answer them on one of our future episodes. Enjoy the show!

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This week’s quick tip is about safety. We reveal the #1 cause of death for children with autism and provide a couple recommendations to help keep your child safe from that. Hopefully, with awareness we can help parents avoid this pitfall.

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