Share & Care #2: Activities and Tips for Cooped-Up Autism Families

Amanda N Kelly, PhD, BCBA-D, LBA leads an interactive forum focusing on tips for home activities for children and adults with autism with a focus on more severe end of the spectrum. Amanda Kelly is the host of the Behaviorbabe podcast and the behaviorbabe.com website. Moderator: Feda Almaliti, Vice President, NCSA

Watch the video recording on NCSA’s YouTube channel here.

Links to resources mentioned during the event:

Behaviorbabe - Cooped Up w/Corona; social stories, educational resources, apps etc. 
https://www.behaviorbabe.com/cooped-up-w-corona

Behaviorbabe - ABA and COVID19
https://www.behaviorbabe.com/aba-and-covid19

Behaviorbabe on Facebook
https://facebook.com/Behaviorbabe/

Mission Cognition - Virtual Social Skills 
https://www.facebook.com/groups/528463368068461/?ref=share

10 Days of packets
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11Gn85SkOv1yGaZrzNOWvFJ_cIshdUqgY

Work outs at home 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaDYCB5WgxlSUMEhZbmDYkQ?fbclid=IwAR1vjmctbMjjiZA10iQfynvhIfAYl2x0YDQfcTbYIobZv4GpUHaMM7opbVE

Exercise with GoNoodle for families 
https://family.gonoodle.com/

Ways to keep your kid active at home 
http://www.iowahealthieststate.com/blog/individuals/coronavirus-covid-19-home-physical-activity-health/

AFIRM Resources 
https://afirm.fpg.unc.edu/supporting-individuals-autism-through-uncertain-times

Tips for learning from home 
https://medium.com/@noel.lafratta/educational-environment-tips-for-at-home-learning-1ec9924321ad?source=linkShare-1fd18c664d36-1585068903

Special needs parenting during a pandemic 
https://humanparts.medium.com/special-needs-parenting-in-the-age-of-pandemic-e0c9320c5a58

Additional Educational Webinars - Together For Our Keiki (Children)
https://www.forourkeiki.com/spring-weekly-webinar-series

USDOE COVID Guidance for Special Ed
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qq5okJh0EzVSHTlxxb6bsmQVwq4iM3EY/view?usp=drivesdk

Jill Escher, President

Jill Escher is president of the National Council on Severe Autism and the mother of two children with nonverbal forms of autism. Through the Escher Fund for Autism she promotes and funds research on the genetic toxicology of autism and related neurodevelopmental conditions, and she has served on the governing council of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society, where she co-chairs its Germ Cell and Heritable Effects special interest group. She was president of Autism Society San Francisco Bay Area from 2013 to 2019 and, through her family business, Claradon Properties, provides housing to adults with developmental disabilities in the Bay Area. See more of her work at jillescher.com.

https://www.jillescher.com/
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