When most people think of their child’s growth & development they can remember the ages at which their child first rolled, crawled, or walked. How many can recall the age at which they picked up small items between their thumb & index finger, or transferred objects from one hand to another?

Social stories are individualized short stories that depict a social situation that your child affected by autism may encounter. These social stories are used to teach communal skills through the use of precise and sequential information about everyday events that your child may find difficult or confusing, thus preventing further anxiety on the part of your child.

Almost all students struggle at one time or another with focus, paying attention, organizing, prioritizing, and completing projects or papers. These modules will focus on increasing self-awareness and improving your ability to pay attention and focus, which are related to the skills of executive functioning. Specific cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies will be offered that you can immediately use to:
- organize your school work
- pay attention more fully while studying or in class - initiate school tasks more readily
- minimize distractions and procrastination

There are 4 modules, and while it may be most helpful to complete each module sequentially, it is also possible to pick and choose the topic that is most important to you:

Module1: Introduction/Definition/Self-Assessment
Module 2: Organization
Module 3: Initiating and Maintaining Focus
Module 4: Maximizing Attention and Minimizing Distractibility

Arthrogryposis (Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita) is a condition where a child is born with multiple joint contractures. A contracture occurs when the muscles, tendons and ligaments in the body become tight and prevent normal movement. In some cases children have only a few joints that are affected. They may have near normal range of motion. In most children with arthrogryposis, their hands, wrists, elbows, shoulders, hips, feet and knees are affected. In severe cases, nearly all body joints may be involved, including the jaw and back. Often children will also have muscle weakness which further limits their movement.

This developmental milestones chart is designed specifically for Children Services staff.  It includes normal expectations of developmental milestones for children birth through adolescence, and information about the possible effects of maltreatment.

In our work on hoarding, we’ve found that people have very different ideas about what it means to have a cluttered home. For some, a small pile of things in the corner of an otherwise well-ordered room constitutes serious clutter. For others, only when the narrow pathways make it hard to get through a room does the clutter register. To make sure we get an accurate sense of a clutter problem, we created a series of pictures of rooms in various stages of clutter – from completely clutter-free to very severely cluttered.

Knowledge and understanding are key elements to creating an accepting and supportive educational environment. When school personnel have information about Tourette Syndrome (TS), students have greater opportunities for success. This resource, while not all-inclusive, provides strategies that will help you develop compassionate and effective supports.

Energy conservation is a means of adapting the way you carry out your day-to-day activities, at work, rest and play. It also allows you to assess and adapt the environment in which you conduct these activities.  Everything we do from waking up to going to bed is classed as an activity and uses some form of energy. Before you begin to make changes to your daily routine the first step is to find out how you spend your time and energy.  This is very important as it will allow you to get a better understanding of how much you are doing and which activities are more or less demanding.  The aim of energy conservation is to improve your quality of life, by conserving your energy for the activities you “like to do” as well as those you “have to do”, within a safe and well structured environment.

Learning Objectives
- Understand the components of an injured worker rehabilitation program and stages of intervention
- Understand how Disability Guidelines can assist in case velocity.
- Distinguish the difference between work conditioning and work hardening treatment and how each program differs
- Recognize how the application of work conditioning and work hardening treatment can be used as a successful tool for return to work

The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) is a questionnaire used for suicide assessment developed by multiple institutions, including Columbia University, with NIMH support. The scale is evidence-supported and is part of a national and international public health initiative involving the assessment of suicidality.