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Video: How to cope with disrupted family routines during COVID-19 … Video (Responsive)."]} School closures are now widespread as part of the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic. While … a long-term plan for implementing techniques or working toward goals at home. They may be able to offer a web-based video training session, and recurring visits to check in if you need them. Once your school day routine is in place, …

Sensory Friendly Weekend at Tellus Science Museum… • Additional directional signage • FREE planetarium experience, which will have an open-door policy while showing looping videos of beautiful space images accompanied by soft classical music in an ambient light environment … Sensory Friendly …

All Kids Included 2020 Digital Family Arts Festival … is going to be available starting Friday, September 4, 2020 and will continue to be available for several weeks. Each video featured on the page includes closed captioning, ASL interpretation and audio description. The page is designed with flexibility in mind – it can be accessed at any time that fits into your schedule and videos can be played again and again as desired. We will also be hosting the AKI art contest awards ceremony on the South …

Using your cell phone… system if possible. Do not let anyone see you dial numbers. Do not use your cell phone to take photographs or capture videos of unsuspecting people, unless absolutely necessary. Speak in a soft voice if possible. Do not give out personal …

Avoiding victimization… Debbaudt is the parent of a young man who has autism, an author, law enforcement trainer and producer of autism-related videos and curriculum for law enforcement agencies. His materials are in use by law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Canada …

When people say "I love someone with autism to the moon and back"… I knew no other autism families when I was a young child on the autism spectrum. Looking back at my life through the videos and photos my parents took interacting with me, I know they certainly lived this quote. As a speaker and …

Autistic people need us to act fearlessly this World Autism Month… in conversations about autism. In fact, a recent study by Drexel University found that less than one-third of autism videos posted on TikTok were accurate , while 41% were inaccurate and 32% overgeneralized. This trend is both devastating …

Helping adults on the spectrum with grief … hands-on expertise based on my own experiences with grief. I attended a lot of Zoom meetings and was interviewed for some videos that are on the website. I got to speak from my heart, so what I said was more sincere and honest. I got to explain … on the website that were wrong, things that were good, wording that needed to be tweaked. I also helped with two animated videos on the website by reviewing and commenting on the work from Exceptional Minds, the studio we worked with. After the …

Workplace Inclusion Now continues to make strides in creating meaningful opportunities for the autistic community three years after pilot program launch… One of the people who have reaped the benefits of this budding relationship is Joanna C., star of Autism Speaks’ WIN video and highlighted in a featured profile during World Autism Month 2021. Joanna’s mom, Lisa, couldn’t be more … having conversations and will tell strangers that she is famous because of the attention she’s got from her Autism Speaks’ videos. She’ll tell her story to anyone who will listen.” With just one in five people with disabilities, including those …