Is Your Child Suffering from AUTISM?                                                                                                          

Autism typically appears during the first three years of life. It is a developmental disability and neurological disorder that interferes with the brain’s ability to process information. Does your child struggle in these areas:

• Relationship development
• Social interaction
• Verbal and non-verbal communication
• Ability to play.

Children who cannot send accurate signals to caretakers often struggle socially. These signals make communication effective. Autism takes away the instinctive part of parenting and leaves parents wondering what to do to help their child. It disrupts the quality of life for  families.

Qualified Coloroado Therapies Clinicians can help your child navigate the world to the best of his abilities

HOW DOES OUR CENTER (Colorado Therapies) ADDRESS THIS ISSUE?

Qualified therapists offer a variety of options to help improve the quality of life for the children and families affected by autism. We offer:

• Imagine! Preferred Providers therapists
• Assessments and testing
• Intervention and consultation
• Individual and group programs from a wide variety of disciplines all under one roof.
• Individual speech-language
• Occupational, physical and behavioral therapies
  
• Group programs that provide movement opportunities and chances to make some new friends

On a more alternative route, we offer complimentary therapies including accupuncture, massage, nutritional counseling, neurological interventions that address re-patterning—sensory processing issues—and family systems counseling for help to support the families who are affected by this condition. In keeping with nurturing the quality of life for children and families, we offer parent education/information and training opportunities as well.

Our independent contractors have experience and training with using the following approaches/programs with children with Autism:

• Therapeutic Listening Program
• Sensory Processing (including the SIPT)
• Relationship Development Intervention (RDI)
• Floortime
• TEACH
• Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
• Lindamood-Bell Phoneme Sequencing Program
• KidsClub (A Social Skills group)
• Nutritional Counseling
• Brain Integration Therapy & Naturopathic Medicine

Is Your Child Suffering From Asperger’s Syndrome?

Asperger’s Syndrome does not typically get diagnosed until a later age and tends to affect boys more often than girls. It appears also as social awkwardness. A developmental and neurological disability, Aspergers results in:

• A lack of social skills
• Difficulty having reciprocal conversations
• Intense interest in a preferred subject
• Pedantic-like speech
• Little empathy and difficulty making friends
• Clumsiness
• An inability to make sense of nonverbal communication.
• According to research, “the mean age for a diagnosis is eight years of age, but the age range varies from very young children to adults” (Eisenmajer et al. 1996 in Asperger’s Syndrome by Tony Attwood p. 22).

Unfortunately, children diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome often fall through the cracks. They tend to have many strengths that help them achieve academically which helps them during the first few years of school. As social interactions, relationships, and language skills become more sophisticated and abstract, children with Asperger’s Syndrome fall behind their peers in these areas.

This social lag triggers a flurry of theories generated by school personnel, friends, and family that tends to compel caretakers to seek assistance from professionals. Common questions from parents, teachers, and caretakers are:

• Why doesn’t my child or this child fit in?
• Why can’t he make friends?
• How come he can know so many facts in a number of subjects but can’t grasp phrases like ‘in one ear and out the other?’”

Like Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome also interferes with the quality of life for everyone involved. It invariably results in social anxiety and very often depression over repeated failures at trying to connect with peers.

HOW DOES OUR CENTER (CTAC) ADDRESS THIS ISSUE?
We offer a variety of programs to help children diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome and their families restore their quality of life. We offer similar programs to this population as we do with children diagnosed with Autism. Those services include assessments, intervention, and consultation via individual and group programs from a wide variety of disciplines. On a more traditional route of intervention, we offer individual speech-language, occupational, physical and behavioral therapies. We offer group programs that provide movement opportunities and chances to make some new friends.

On a more alternative route, we offer complimentary therapies including acupuncture, massage, nutritional counseling, neurological interventions that address re-patterning—sensory processing issues—and family systems counseling for helping to support the families who are affected by this condition. In keeping with nurturing the quality of life for children and families, we offer parent education/information and training opportunities as well.

Our independent contractors have experience and training with using the following approaches/programs with children with Asperger’s Syndrome:

• Therapeutic Listening Program
• Sensory Processing (including the SIPT)
• Floortime
• TEACH
• Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
• Lindamood-Bell Phoneme Sequencing Program
• KidsClub (A Social Skills group)
• Brain Integration Therapy & Naturopathic Medicine
• Nutritional Counseling
• Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) (see below)

WHAT IS RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION (RDI)?
It is an approach to working with spectrum disorders that treats the whole child and his family. This would be best answered by visiting the website at: www.rdiconnect.com. We also encourage parents to find out more information at: www.autismboulder.org to receive optimal support and community links for this condition.