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Sponderwrks Program Description

Sponderwrks Program Description
The SCS Philosophy of Integrated Intervention

Sadly, in the past, parents have been led to believe that parents must choose treatment for their child based on one single methodology or another - and to the exclusion of others. This caused parents to worry whether or not they have chosen the "right" approach. There has always been a robust body of solid evidence supporting a variety of effective approaches - and no single intensive treatment has ever proven to be more effective than any other.

In recent years, top experts in the field of Early Autism Intervention have begun to recommend combinations of behavioral and developmental methods to provide balance and thoroughness in treatment. Increasingly, the field is recognizing that no single approach is equipped to provide an answer to every intervention need.

What To Feed or Not to Feed your Child

What Not To Feed Your Child
The bad mood diet of sugary drinks and E-additives
[This information is for our readers' information only and not intended as a recommendation.]

Hydrogenated and trans fats
        May cause: Dyslexia, dyspraxia, learning
difficulties, autism.
        Where they are found: Cakes, pastries,
biscuits, bread, margarine,
snacks (such as popcorn), commercially fried foods
  including some French fries and hamburgers.
        What they do: Unlike the liquid omega-3 fatty
acids lacking in most children's diets, these solid man-made fats have
been shown in animal studies to make the brain membrane less fluid
and there is good evidence that they alter the signaling ability of
neurotransmitters or chemical   messengers.

Crisis Intervention/Stages and Appropriate Adult Actions

It should be noted first that the most effective way to reduce oppositional and rage attacks is to reduce the number of power struggles that occur.

View Power Struggles and Oppositional Behavior as a Failure of Problem-Solving: It is important here to view power struggles as a failure of one or both parties to engage in more productive means of problems-solving. Problem-solving may be thwarted by either party's faulty perceptions or reasoning process, but as you learned from training in problem-solving, the whole process of problem-solving is to clarify situations and teach logical emotional reasoning.

View Resistant and Explosive Behaviors as Defenses Against Anxiety: It is also important to view oppositional behavior in terms of the Student's valid need to regulate anxiety. It is not the need that is the problem - it is the means in which the Student goes about it that is the problem.