How to Introduce New Foods to Picky Eaters  With the Holiday season right around the corner, more gatherings are taking place- and if your child is a picky eater, you...

We know every child has a different journey through Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy and each family’s experience is truly unique. This is why Little Spurs Autism Center has...

Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to define and manage one’s emotions as well as the emotions of others. This includes identifying and naming emotions in yourself and others,...

Coping Skills   There are so many ways children cope with the world around them. Things such as different environments, challenging situations, and new experiences can cause stress in children...

All behaviors serve a purpose. Through their behavior, children are communicating something to us, and it is our job to figure out what that is. The four functions of...

Picky eating is not a diagnosable condition that has concrete symptoms. In a way it is like Autism existing on a spectrum and can have a variety of presentations....

How to Support Learning for Neurodiverse Children  Did You Know? Approximately one in six children from the ages of 3 years old to 17 years old face a developmental disability....

What? ABA therapy is based on the science of behavior analysis. It helps individuals increase communication, social skills, adaptive skills, executive functioning skills, and decrease problem behaviors by teaching alternative skills. Who? Although at...

In the last post we went over ABA terms, now we will go more in-depth into how we use these terms during sessions, and what ABA sessions look like...

As a parent seeking out resources for their child, one will come across new terminology that can be hard to understand. We have put a list of frequently used...