"Sending this kid to school without school readiness skill is like sending them to a battlefield without an armour." This is one of the message that I've always carried with me, wherever I go, whenever I meet school-going clients, and before parents and I discussed about sending their children to school. Now, going to school requires school readiness skills, socio-emotional skills, self-management skills, and a whole lot of other skills that you could think of. We shared prev

Every autism journey begins differently. And in every journey, it is deeply personal because every parent experiences it differently. During this Autism Acceptance Month, STEP has reached out to a parent of an autistic child to share their journey. We reached out to a mum of an young teenager who are currently attending school. This mum first noticed that something was different about her son when he was around 1.5 years old. The main difference she noted was the way her son

Reinforcement is often one of the first "new" words that parents encounter when they begin learning about ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis). It sounds technical at first, but once we understand it, it can become a practical cool that we can use in everyday life with our child. So what is reinforcement, really? Looking at it in simple term, reinforcement is anything that increases the possibility of a behaviour happening again. So if a behaviour happens, and something that comes