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Autism: Our Future Is Bright

World Autism Awareness Day is coming soon and I’m SUPER excited to partner with Autism Society Georgia for this amazing campaign. If you live in Georgia, you can help us spread the message that the...

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Help Me Illuminate the Future for Those with Autism

As you know, I am extremely involved in the Autism community, both to support my son and in the Emergency Preparedness/Emergency Responder arena. I am blessed and honored to be training some of...

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Weekly Autism Tips for Emergency Responders – Sensory Meltdown Vs. Tantrum

Hey, Spirit of Autism family! I appreciate your patience regarding the fact that I’ve not been able to keep the Blog up to date while finishing Advanced EMT school. It’s been quite a ride but I’m...

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Weekly Autism Tips for Emergency Responders – Facts About Restraining

Restraining someone with Autism is a touchy subject. Often, when I bring it up to emergency responders they immediately get defensive and feel I am purporting a shiny, happy world full of kittens and...

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Weekly Autism Tips for Emergency Responders – Patient Assessment

During a standard assessment in a conscious patient, we rely heavily on the patient’s communication – why EMS was called, what hurts, what happened, etc. This can become complicated when assessing a...

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Weekly Tips for Emergency Responders: Girls Have Autism, Too

For nearly ten years I have been ensconced in the world of Autism. I have spent countless hours in research, created home therapies, advocated for my son, created a Blog about our journey to help other...

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Weekly Autism Tips for Emergency Responders: ICE4Autism Interview

I’m so excited to have connected with Wanda Refaely, creator of ICE4Autism, the only Autism-Specific In Case of Emergency (ICE) App. This awesome app provides first responders and medical personnel...

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Weekly Autism Tips for Emergency Responders: Drawn to Water

In my Autism Training courses I teach parents and emergency responders to search water first if a person with Autism goes missing. This includes rivers, pools, lakes, ponds, and even fountains. 91% of...

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Weekly Autism Tips for Emergency Responders: If I Need Help

My boy is a wanderer. After having a girl first, one that was nearly always attached to my side, I was not prepared for the terror of repeatedly having a child go missing in the blink of an eye. Now...

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Event First Aid: The Distraction Technique and Autism

As an auxiliary first responder who works first aid booths at community events like airshows, parades, road races, festivals and the like and an adult with Asperger’s, I have discovered some good...

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Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drill – Who Will Be Joining My Family?

Everyone, everywhere, should know how to protect themselves, their family and their business in an earthquake. As a CERT member and vocal disaster preparedness advocate, I’m thrilled to be...

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Weekly Autism Tips for Emergency Responders: Excited Delirium or Sensory...

During my last Autism training class for law enforcement, someone brought up an excellent question immediately following the Sensory Meltdown section of my program. They commented that many of the...

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Weekly Autism Tips for Emergency Responders: Co-existing Conditions

Children with an autism diagnosis often have more concurrent medical and psychological or mental health conditions than their non-autistic counterparts. Because of this, they are also more likely to...

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Autism Tips for Emergency Responders: Temperature Regulation

It often takes an Act of Congress to get my son to wear a coat in the winter. I used to think it was stubbornness or laziness that drove him to his refusal. Eventually I started to realize that he...

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Autism Tips for Emergency Responders: You Get What You Get!

A guest post by Wanda Refaely, ICE4Autism. It’s like my son used to say about the color of the popsicle he got at snack time in preschool: You get what you get! Emergency calls sometimes come in with...

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Autism Tips for Emergency Responders: Autism and Violence

My extended family doesn’t know a great deal about autism. My children and I don’t live near my mother or stepmother, and autism wasn’t even on my radar when my father passed away in 2001. The majority...

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Autism Tips for Emergency Responders: Service Dogs on Scene

If you have recently attended one of my Autism Training classes for emergency responders, you’ll recall a short video of a woman’s service dog that alerts to self-harm while she is having a meltdown....

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Emergency Responders: Why Address Sensory Issues First?

Sensory Processing issues play a bigger role in the daily lives of those with Autism and Asperger’s than most people realize. No matter what behavior I’m addressing with my son or what I encounter on a...

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Autism and the Criminal Justice System

During the introduction of my Autism Training for Emergency Responders class I talk about how special needs individuals are seven times more likely to interact with first responders, usually due to...

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Using Redirection to Avert Harmful Stimming

Repetitive behaviors such as spinning objects, opening and closing things repeatedly, rocking, arm-flapping, squealing, making loud noises or even hitting are common in those on the autism spectrum....

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