Consent, Part 3: Applying the Abstract
As I said before, the right to consent is a fundamental human right. Once you understand what consent really means, applying it to daily...
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Dr. Zate
- Sep 8, 2022
- 3 min
Consent, Part 2: Teaching Concepts
As I said before, the right to consent is a fundamental human right. Once you understand what consent really means, applying it to daily...
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Dr. Zate
- Aug 29, 2022
- 3 min
Sensory Processing, Part 5: Bath Battles
Let's break down the why's of bathtime struggles and what you can do to end the battles.
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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
- Jun 1, 2022
- 3 min
Parenting Advice From a Pediatrician is...
I can't recall a single lecture or class on child-rearing in my entire medical education.
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Dr. Zate
- May 15, 2022
- 2 min
The Question of How
Parents almost uniformly believe that it is their job to find ways to get their kids to do things they don’t want to do. That is not our job
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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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Dr. Zate
- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
Building Morning Routines That Work For Kids
This is going to sound crazy. But building morning routines (or any routines, really) isn't that hard. The problem is that parents often...
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