Learn more about CLEAR’s virtual assessment tool, CADE, and what information it can provide for you and your child using telehealth. Dr. Marcy Willard talks about our socializing domain and explains how the CLEAR Child system shows strengths and weaknesses based on...
Dear Community, April is the month to honor people with autism and bring awareness to the challenges many families face. This is our series on autism myths. Below is one of those myths. Please read and share. Kids with autism don’t want friends. This is probably the...
Are you concerned about how your child navigates personal space? Hear one family's experience... It’s 6 a.m. on a Tuesday and still dark when a little voice from the side of the room— "Mom, I can't find my bah!" My son has lost his pacifier again, so he climbs up next...
Jesse (age 5) says “There’s a ghost in my room. I feel scared.” We taught him the Ghostbusters song, and now he walks around the house saying, “dun-nu-na-nu-na... I ain’t afraid of no ghost!” Is your child constantly worrying about everything? Is he saying “what...
Joanna (age 2) says, “I don’t wanna take my lunch box to school!” and throws it under a parked car with a flourish. She crosses her arms across her chest and sticks out her bottom lip. “I don’t want it. No.” Mom is flustered and tries to defuse this one and get her...
Sam (age 2) is watching Ratatouille (unwillingly because it is not about a truck). He glances at the screen and says, “oh no, the mouse is very sad” as Remy hangs his head and walks from the restaurant. Sam is showing perspective taking. “Perspective taking allows a...
Let’s Talk about Daily Living If you are concerned about your child’s daily living skills, you may notice their hair is messy, their room is a disaster, and they don’t seem to act like other people their age. Why is Daily Living important? Daily living skills are...
Dear Community, April is the month to honor people with autism and bring awareness to the challenges many families face. This is our series on autism myths. Below is myth #3. Please read and share. My doctor ruled out autism. Yep, I said it!...
Dear Community, April is the month to honor people with autism and bring awareness to the challenges many families face. This is our series on autism myths. Below is myth #2. Please read and share. Oh, that kid is too smart to have autism. There is a...
This dad, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is now also his teenager’s teacher in the time of COVID-19. His daughter has autism and is used to having a full-time paraprofessional at school as well as services including Speech and Occupational...
Social Motivation: One common autism myth is that an individual on the Autism Spectrum cannot be socially motivated. Dr. Kroncke explains social motivation, shows the symptom in CLEAR’s virtual CADE Assessment and dispels the myth.
Given this crisis of kids who need help and no one to help them...what did we do? We created a visual model and a framework of symptoms that put things in terms EVERYone can understand. We digitized the assessment method we use to do virtual on-line evaluations. ...