Child & Adolescent Psychological Evaluations

08/22/2022

Living as an autistic person in a neurotypical world can be traumatic.

06/18/2022

04/03/2022

If we only point out our children's Autistic traits when they're struggling with something they're only ever going to associate being Autistic with struggling.

03/30/2022

This April, AVOID Autism Speaks: "Very little money donated to Autism Speaks goes toward helping autistic people and families. Only 1.6% of Autism Speaks’ budget goes towards the “Family Service” grants that are the organization’s means of funding services. Autism Speaks spends more than 10x as much—16%—on fundraising." From The Autistic Self Advocacy Network; please share far and wide if you can. -SR

[Infographic with two columns and a white background.

Column I

Large blue text reads: “Before you donate to Autism Speaks”

Large Orange text reads: “Consider the facts”

A thin blue horizontal divider divides the above text from smaller title case blue text reading,

“Very little money donated to Autism Speaks goes toward helping autistic people and families.

Black text reads:

“Only 1.6% of Autism Speaks’ budget goes towards the “Family Service” grants that are the organization’s means of funding services. Autism Speaks spends more than 10x as much—16%—on fundraising. Although Autism Speaks has not prioritized services with a practical impact for families and individuals in its budget, its rates of executive pay are the highest in the autism world: some salaries exceed $500,000 a year.”

Title case blue text reads,

“Autism Speaks talks about us without us.”

Black text reads:

“Autism Speaks has only 2 autistic people out of a total of 26 individuals on its Board of Directors. By contrast, 19 out of 26 board members represent major corporations, including current and former CEOs and senior executives of PayPal, Samsung, CBS, Goldman Sachs, White Castle, Viacom, American Express, FX Networks, Virgin Mobile, SiriusXM, and Sprint”

Title case blue text reads,

“Autism Speaks’ fundraising strategies promote fear, stigma, and prejudice against autistic people.”

Black text reads:

“Autism Speaks uses its platform and advertising budget to portray autism and autistic people as mysterious and frightening. Their fundraising tactics increase stigma and create barriers the inclusion of autistic people in our communities.”

Column II

Graphic: Dark blue puzzle piece overlaid with a dark orange "No" symbol of a circle with a diagonal line as its diameter

Title case blue text reads,

“Autism Speaks’ Budget”

Subhead text in smaller gray text reads,

“source: Autism Speaks 990 Non-Profit Tax Exemption Form, 2017*”

Graphic: Blue pie chart with the following titles and numbers:

Research 32%

Fundraising 16%

“Awareness” & Lobbying 42%

Misc. 8%

Family Services

03/24/2022

ABA therapy, behavior intervention, applied behavioral analysis, PTSD, autism, trauma, compliance training, behaviorism

03/17/2022

As educators and families collaborating to empower our students, Mr. Best encourages us to be positive role models in our daily lives.

03/07/2022

Hey all! Thanks so much for checking out today's video. I poured my heart and soul into this one for sure. I definitely scripted most of the video, but not t...

03/01/2022

Many autistic children experience language regression for about three months in early childhood, but this lapse does not appear to foretell future communication issues.