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Helping Your Child with ASD Learn to Ride a Bike

Challenges with body awareness, balance and motor control, and hand-eye coordination can make riding a bike difficult. Learn a number of tips for successful bike riding including purchasing equipment, making bike adjustments, breaking down riding into smaller steps, clothing protection, practice makes perfect pedaling, staying …

March 26, 2024EducationASD Diagnosis, Autism, Education, Parent Supportby midwestautismcenter

Understanding Your Child’s Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Diagnosis

Navigating an Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis can be overwhelming, but understanding the levels of ASD is key to finding the right support.

Understanding the Cost of Care: Covering the Cost of ABA Therapy

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy is an evidence-based therapy option that has been scientifically shown to help children on the Autism Spectrum reach developmental milestones and catch up to their peers in key areas like communication, social skills, and fine and gross motor skills. When a child receives …

5 Tips for a Successful Valentine’s Day with ASD

Everyone loves Valentine’s Day, right? The elementary memories of stressing about which Valentine to give to your classmates, which cutesy saying might not embarrass us… Our children with ASD may feel those pressures and anxieties amplified. Valentine’s Day brings multiple potential triggers for our friends …

Fi & Friends Parents Night Out

Socialize with other Autism parents, enjoy some laughs, eat a delicious catered dinner, and walk away with a fun giveaway! Can’t make it due to childcare needs? No worries, Fi & Friends have you covered! Kids can be dropped off (in the same building) with …

Tips for Avoiding the Snowed-In Struggles

Winters in the Midwest are crazy, right? One week it’s 30 degrees with dry, but frozen, ground. The next we’re 15 inches deep in snow with a -32 windchill. The big question that seems to pop up every time we get snowed in is how …

Fundamentos del Autismo Seminarios Web: Programación escolar y otros recursos

Presentadoras: Dayrin Lovan & Kelly Pelzel Serie de seminarios web gratuitos para padres o cuidadores primarios dehabla hispana con niños con un nuevo diagnóstico de autismo. ¡Todos son bienvenidos! Aviso: Parte del contenido será específico para Iowa. Las sesiones serán grabadas.

Fundamentos del Autismo Seminarios Web: Terapias y tratamientos

Presentadoras: Dayrin Lovan & Kelly Pelzel Serie de seminarios web gratuitos para padres o cuidadores primarios dehabla hispana con niños con un nuevo diagnóstico de autismo. ¡Todos son bienvenidos! Aviso: Parte del contenido será específico para Iowa. Las sesiones serán grabadas.

Finding Your Fit: Understanding the Differences in Home-Based and Center-Based ABA

When your child receives a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), your next steps can seem unclear as you navigate a swirl of emotions and information from too many sources to count. What therapies and services could your child benefit from? How do you find these …

5 Tips for a Sensory-Friendly Thanksgiving

Holidays can be a joyous time spent with family and friends, but they can also be overwhelming for families with children on the Autism Spectrum. Thanksgiving especially, is a holiday that requires a lot from our senses. There are crowds of people, excessive noises, new …