There is a moment many parents know well. A child becomes overwhelmed, and everything suddenly escalates. Screaming, crying, ...

If you walk into any autistic group, almost everyone in the group understands what it means to go into autistic shutdown or meltdown states. Even if they don’t know the proper words or terminology for ...

One of challenges parents face with children and teens on the autism spectrum, are the meltdowns. A meltdown can last in the upwards of fifteen minutes plus, and there is very little a parent can do ...