July 6, 2011
I recently read an interesting article on one of my favorite blogs, Reports from a Resident Alien. In this article the blogger, a college-aged woman with Asperger’s, is complaining about the prevalent use of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) as a therapy approach for autism. (ABA, for those who don’t know, is a highly popular therapy […]
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March 18, 2010
Last fall, you heard The Neurodevelopment Song. In January, it was Watch and Learn: The Mirror Neuron Song. Today, I bring you the third song in this (yet-to-be-named) series: The 3 Neurotransmitters. As therapists, we literally re-wire the brains of our clients. That type of re-wiring happens because of certain chemicals in our brain, called […]
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