The introductory session is currently being provided to families for a limited period.
The session maybe conducted over the phone or in person at our University research center based on what works best for you.
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Managing behaviors and autism
Managing behaviors: start with understanding communication In a very great number of conversations with families the issue of behaviors (or lack of) comes up when we speak about their autistic child. What I'm speaking about [...]
Autism and getting out and about with your child
Autism and getting out and about with your child. With the summer arriving, and the children soon finishing school many parents are speaking to me about getting out and enjoying the summer with [...]
Sports activities and the autistic child
Sports activities and the autistic child. For anyone who is a frequent reader of my posts on the development of autistic children, they will know the importance I place on sports activities and the [...]
Flying with your autistic child
Can I take my autistic child on a flight? As we are coming to the summer I thought I would write some posts speaking to our experiences with the boys traveling, on vacation or generally out [...]
Behavior management and the summer months.
Behavior management and the summer months. When it comes to an autistic child one of the aspects that strikes the greatest fear in parents is the whole conundrum of behavior management. And what is [...]
Setting expectations and the autistic child
Autism: understanding and setting expectations One of the most important yet least understood areas of special needs parenting is the area of setting expectations. Here Enda and Val talk about some of their experiences getting [...]
Autism services and finding them
What autism services do I need? Today I'm going to speak about diagnosis and autism services in a clinical way. I will leave the enormous emotional aspect aside for another time. However I will [...]
Driving expectations and strengths despite language disorders
We offer a FREE Child Assessment Overcoming language disorders in the most unexpected places. For millions of children to world over, language disorders and deficits are a major obstacle to just about everything. I remember [...]
School and the autistic child
School and the Autistic child. A lot of families in our group connected with me over the summer about choosing a school for their special needs child. So I thought this would be a good [...]
Using animation to teach language: Perspectives from Rebecca Eisenburg
Using Disney to Encourage Communication and Engagement By Rebecca Eisenberg “Affinity to Capability to Possibility” –from “Life Animated” by Ron Suskind I recently read the inspirational book “Life Animated” (by Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Suskind) [...]
The autism narrative: Gayle MacDonald
The autism narrative: Gayle MacDonald As with anyone with a special interest in autism, and particularly as a family with autistic twins, I have more than a passing interest in what's out there about [...]
Innovative family business aims to change the world for children with autism
Enda and Valerie Dodd’s innovative software solution ‘ALL’, named after their company, Animated Language Learning, is driven by the belief that they can change the world for children with autism and their families. Since [...]
Autism: making a difference in a child’s life
From ‘Toy Story’ to you: How a Galway family are making a difference on autism Animated language learning programme devised by family at NUI Galway campus company assisting children with autism Tue, Jul 4, 2017, [...]
Autistic teenager uses Disney media to create language program
‘Animated Language Learning’ program reaches 300 families with autism Mary Ann Corrigan, Institute of Engineers Journal With the help of his 19-year-old son, who was diagnosed with severe autism as a child, engineer Enda [...]
Disney saves two autistic boys
Buzzwords, how Disney helped two boys and led to the birth of ALL. By Elaine O'Regan. EDITOR, OUT ON YOUR OWN, SUNDAY BUSINESS POST By the time Enda Dodd found himself in the office [...]