Our primary work is early intervention for Autism. However;as our practise matures, we find that some children whom we discharged many years ago, (children who joined mainstream schools) are reaching out for help to prepare them for the rigors of college life.Depending on the child's profile, extent of support received in school; children reach out to us at different stages in their school life. Either as they head into middle school or at high school.The work we do lays the

The pandemic saw us shifting a lot of our work online. This gave us an opportunity to watch up close, parents interacting with their children. Our online therapy format with the children calls for reviewing videos of parents interacting with their children. Here, I would like to highlight some key areas that we have had to handhold parents through. Communication has to be fun.There is no other way to do it. Children with communication challenges build up a lot of anxiety rela