Greetings Everyone -

Here are the latest articles from the Autism Spectrum Disorders site at BellaOnline.com.

Kids with Autism Can Help Around the House
This is a review of a step-by-step chore system to teach children life-long skills.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art64362.asp

Gluten Free Snack Options
Here is a listing of ten hits and misses of gluten free and gfcf snacks that our family has tried over the past year

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art64266.asp

California Services to Disabled Community
Information from the Office of Client's Rights Advocacy in relation to how Regional Center services have changed due to California budget issues

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art64062.asp

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http://forums.bellaonline.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=365

If you have a product or food item you would like to give away at autism twitter day next month - having the second annual day on Dec 18th, please let me know. If you want to give away an item on my blog you can contact me also. I plan on doing some in the coming weeks - one being a set of Betty Crocker Gluten Free baking mixes and another is a copy of Board Maker Plus from Mayer Johnson.

Feel free to follow me on twitter - http://twitter.com/autismfamily


Some media articles and items from my favs on twitter:


Bullies prey on autistic kids http://bit.ly/24jGNL

7 Year Old Opens Fire On Passing Car At School Bus Stop http://bit.ly/3F1CLs

Screwed over by Professionals http://bit.ly/WJoBt

Screening for autism: New tool looks at child's speech patterns - http://05dfs.tk

Using applied behavior analysis in every day parenting http://tinyurl.com/yz4mk7x

We Exist: Girls and women living with autism http://ow.ly/uzgK

New study on an operant approach to teach joint attention skills to children with autism http://tinyurl.com/ylexupl

Helping Students with Autism on Homework - http://is.gd/4nVxo

Snappy Comebacks to “Why Can’t You Control Your [Screaming] Child?” - http://shar.es/1yCt7


Cow's, goat's, soy, almond, rice and hemp: the pros and cons of milks via LATimes.com - http://bit.ly/4Ds4Pb

How 2 teach self-advocacy - http://tinyurl.com/ykzayd5

What if autism were viewed as an ability, not a disability? http://tinyurl.com/ofccu7

Extraordinary People – The Rainman Twins - http://bit.ly/37Ibfd

Father of slain autistic teen 'never saw the sign coming - http://ow.ly/wLtO



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Bonnie Sayers, Autism Spectrum Disorders Editor
http://AutismSpectrumDisorders.bellaonline.com

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