Sep 9, 2021
Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh, the founder of the Center for Autism
and Related Disorders is back to answer viewer questions about
dealing with change, automatic function vs sensory function and
more! Check it out!
6:36 Dealing with Change
here is a question, hope its a good one. one of my
favorite restaurants is closing soon permanently. i am handling the
change well. but how can i handle it better. and I want this to
help everyone.
15:35 Screaming & Automatic Functions
Vs. Sensory Function
Hello, I’m behavior therapists, can you talk about
screaming? Can be sensory or automatic reinforcement because no
reason for that.
23:13 My daughter is currently in class
for Autism and dyslexia formality and her professor is playing
videos on how this works. His suggestion is a sensory room. What if
you only have one room and an Autistic student main streamed with
30 other students. What can a teacher do to help that one?
25:56 How do we know when its time for
aba to be over over?
How do we know when its time for aba to be over over? My
6 year old has mastered almost all of the vb-mapp testing and we
are talking about graduating her from aba but I am afraid of that
change, as you just discussed. Our BCBA has told us to continue
parent training for remaining behaviors and look into social skills
classes or other group activities because those would help more
than 1-1 adult therapy.
37:08 My 4-yo is doing well w language
but he still sometimes zones out. Bc of Covid we haven't had an
in-person eval. Could this be ADHD or is it autism making shifting
attention tough? How to work on this?
45:25 My son was diagnosed with mild
autism at the age of four. He is nine but he does not talk . Is
there any chance he will ever talk, if yes what advice you can
give.
48:11 I think I might be autistic but
idk for sure
I am so exhausted and tired, and I don’t wanna hurt
myself, but it seems like the only thing. The way I stim is by
skinpicking my scalp and it sounds bad I don’t know, and I am in a
horrible situation and I try to cope by eating. Also, I asked this
on another post but are there any autistic advocacy groups that
aren’t ravist? I am so scared, and I don’t even know if I will. Am
I weak? It feels wrong to be this vulnerable online cause I am
scared someone will use it against me but why is the world so
horrible to autistics like the fact that stuff like (tw aba therapy
mention) aba therapy is legal and doctors you can’t even trust
doctors and the thing is diagnosis is so biased, so it is so hard
to find others locally. People are just so, and I am so. I feel
like everything I say will be taken the wrong way and even when I
trust myself in a situation and I handle it in the moment it still
replays in my mind and I don’t know what to do. Can you even be
yourself when you’re in hell? I have a nonspeaking autistic sibling
and it’s so much worse for him and I don’t know what to do. Also, I
hate it when people ask me how I am then asking why all these
terrible things are happening as if there is a reason justifiable
enough. When someone asks me why my heart breaks because it means I
have lost another person I could trust. And I don’t hate being
autistic, but my mind is so messy I don’t even know how I am. It
seems so normal to me but the fact that it’s not to others is just
so. I mean listen I don’t get it. One time I did something i
thought was normal (I knocked and asked if her water was working
because she lives close by and my water does not work) and this
lady I barely knew messaged my neighbor and called me “crazy” also
I told her how old I was I am like a teen and she is a grown woman.
I know I should trust but I have so much to lose if I trust the
wrong person. If I hear another blame, I do not deserve I don’t
think my mind will cope. I will have to forget everything though it
feels like I already have. I mean I will endure but how much will
that matter if the pain swallows itself with other parts of my
brain I need.
55:32
Greetings doctor. My 10 year old son has high
functioning autism. He's starting to realize that he is in a
special day class and that he is different from the other kids. I'm
worried about how this will affect his psyche and how he see's
himself. Any advice would be helpful.