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How Communication Boards Bridge Language Gaps for People with Autism

Communication, one of the more significant challenges facing people living with autism, often limits their opportunities to express themselves and understand others. Communication boards, used effectively, are augmentative or alternative communication (AAC) devices that can support one of the key difficulties faced by autistic people. What is a communication board? Communication boards could cut …

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Can Emotional Intelligence Be Learned to Boost Personal Growth?

Emotional Intelligence / By Strickland, D

Emotional Intelligence is a valuable asset for personal growth, but can it be learned? 4 Key Skills To Build Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Emotional Intelligence as a noun (a describing word) is built through improving skills, which can be learned anytime. However, to enjoy the benefits of EQ, knowledge must be applied to daily living, …

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Speech Therapy Information And Options For Parents of Autistic Children

Communication Skills / By Strickland, D

Speech therapy can help autistic people and this article covers several important aspects, including guidelines on finding a qualified speech therapist. What Is Speech Therapy? A field with an extensive range, speech therapy treats speech and communication disorders. In children, those with developmental disorders are helped to understand and use spoken language in a …

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Emotional Intelligence in the Digital Workplace: 5 Tips on Developing your Workplace EQ

Emotional Intelligence / By Strickland, D

The digital workplace is here, and it’s not going away anytime soon. With the digital workplace comes surprising social aspects you would usually associate with a regular workplace. Now, there’s no digital water cooler for you to stand by and gossip when your break comes around, but there is a people aspect to your digital …

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5 Ways to Help Students Develop Digital Empathy

Emotional Intelligence / By Strickland, D

With the online space comes a whole new way to learn, communicate, and most importantly, socialize. However, there’s a fear that people entering the digital space may not be able to be aware of the feelings and concerns of others online. To be able to maintain such an experience is known as “digital empathy”, something …

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5 Tips to Help Children with Autism and ADHD Develop Emotional Control

Emotional Intelligence / By Strickland, D

You will find that many children on the autism spectrum and with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder will have difficulties controlling their emotions. It’s believed by both scientists and parents alike that most of these children lack executive function skills. Executive function skills include being able to organize, manage time, sustain attention, be persistent in following goals, among …

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Basic Emotions: What They Are and How They Affect Our Behaviour

Emotional Intelligence / By Strickland, D

Human beings are prone to, and someone would say suffer from, feelings – we call these ‘emotions’. They affect our behaviour in different ways: some positive some negative. Some people appear, to others, to be driven by these factors. We call them emotional. Emotion could be defined as a strong feeling caused by: • Circumstances; …

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Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child: 4 Tips for Strengthening Your Child’s Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence / By Strickland, D

Raising an emotionally intelligent child can be a puzzle for some. You want to be able to strengthen your child’s ability to relate and socialize with other people, especially if they happen to have difficulty with emotions in general, like those with autism. Given it’s a relatively new concept, though, how you were raised can …

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Simple Tips on Improving Conversational Skills in a Child with Autism

Communication Skills / By Strickland, D

One of the biggest difficulties people with Autism Spectrum Disorder tend to have is with communication and social cues. Social interaction can be confusing and downright frustrating on both ends. It can lead to miscommunication, awkward moments, bad first impressions, and unfortunately, many kids with autism are ostracized for being “weird”. This can all stem …

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