The Autistic Tug of War
Three things pulling me in different directions, like the most complicated tug o' war ever.
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Dr. Zate
- Oct 29, 2022
- 2 min
Diagnosing Autism, Part 5: Recognizing Myself
Some of you are excellent at following pronoun use.
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Dr. Zate
- Oct 22, 2022
- 2 min
Diagnosing Autism, Part 4: Self-Identification, Self-Diagnosis, and the Autistic Community
A lot of medical professionals are skeptical of the self-identified/self-diagnosed autistic person. But the autistic community is not.
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Dr. Zate
- Oct 15, 2022
- 3 min
Diagnosing Autism, Part 3: Growing Pains
In thinking about the evolution of the diagnosis of autism, it's instructional to look at another group of people, the LGBTQ+ community.
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Dr. Zate
- Oct 8, 2022
- 2 min
Diagnosing Autism, Part 2: The Game Sucks
The current diagnostic criteria for autism suck for a bunch of reasons. Here are a few.
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Dr. Zate
- Oct 1, 2022
- 4 min
Diagnosing Autism, Part 1: The Rules of the Game
Let's break down our approach to the diagnosis of autism, so we can think about how we diagnose and who benefits from the current system.
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Dr. Zate
- Aug 22, 2022
- 5 min
Sensory Processing, Part 4: Exposure Therapy
As I've said before, sensory needs are often the driving force behind a lot of children’s behavior issues, starting very early in life. ...
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Dr. Zate
- Aug 15, 2022
- 2 min
Sensory Processing, Part 3: Addressing Sensitivities
It's absolutely critical that sensory sensitivities be acknowledged and honored.
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Dr. Zate
- Aug 8, 2022
- 2 min
Sensory Processing, Part 2: Meeting Needs
sensory needs are often the driving force behind a lot of children’s behavior issues, starting very early in life.
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Dr. Zate
- Aug 1, 2022
- 3 min
Sensory Processing, Part 1: What is Sensory Processing?
To understand sensory needs, we have to understand sensory processing functions and how they drive our behavior.
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Dr. Zate
- Jul 29, 2022
- 2 min
Meltdowns, Part 5: Cumulative Relationship Trauma
Unfortunately, some parents are reading this many years into a long-standing pattern of meltdowns.
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Dr. Zate
- Jul 22, 2022
- 3 min
Meltdowns, Part 4: Managing the Moment
No matter how fantastic you are at preventing meltdowns, they will happen sometimes.
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Dr. Zate
- Jul 15, 2022
- 4 min
Meltdowns, Part 3: Prevention is Key
Let’s look at meltdown triggers because this is where you have the most power to prevent meltdowns.
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Dr. Zate
- Jul 10, 2022
- 4 min
Problematic Therapy Goals and Pursuing Neurodivergence-Affirming Therapies
For all of our talk about neurodivergence-affirming therapy for autistic children, parents often find that techniques used by their child's
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Dr. Zate
- Jul 8, 2022
- 2 min
Meltdowns, Part 2: Why Do Meltdowns Happen?
You can’t prevent something you don’t understand. So understanding the nature of meltdowns and their causes is essential to managing them.
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Dr. Zate
- Jul 1, 2022
- 3 min
Meltdowns, Part 1: What is a Meltdown?
Meltdowns are a common and deeply misunderstood human behavior.
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Dr. Zate
- Jun 15, 2022
- 2 min
Food is a Right, Not a Reward
Food is not a reward. Read it again. Food is not a reward.
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Dr. Zate
- May 1, 2022
- 3 min
Unmasking
Masking is one of the most common and most misunderstood neurodivergent behaviors. And I think it’s best taught by example.
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Dr. Zate
- Apr 15, 2022
- 4 min
The Therapy Guidebook for Parents
When a child is struggling, therapies are often the best way to resolve the barriers blocking them from success. But which therapy is the...
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Dr. Zate
- Apr 1, 2022
- 3 min
Autistic Manners
I get a lot of questions about social… stuff, for lack of a better word. The common thread? They’re being rude.
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