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Innovative family changes the world for Autistic children
Innovative family business aims to change the world for children with autism By Declan Varley Galway Advertiser NUI Galway-based start-up founders provide innovative autism speech and language learning programme offering hope to families worldwide, [...]
A day in the life: autism miracles on NUI Galway campus………
A day in the life: autism miracles on NUI Galway campus……… University Press, Galway Ireland Teenager Conor Dodd, diagnosed as severely autistic as a child, now teaches special needs children to communicate. In this [...]
Autism, parenting and learning readiness.
Autism, communication and parenting: our journey to learning readiness. One of the most frequent questions I get asked by parents is 'how do I get my son to co-operate with me?'. If I were [...]
Disney animation and teaching language
Autism and Disney animation Up to now Val and I have concentrated on general topics relating to language development. In this post we are now turning to our language research with Disney animation. We started generally [...]
Learning language from Disney: autism communication
Autism and communication: Defying the odds By Róisín Delaney, Woman's Way. When Enda and Valerie Dodd had their twin boys almost 20 years ago, like many parents they felt everything was falling into place. As twins [...]
Learning differences: Finding Dory
Finding Dory speaks to disabilities in a powerful way I just saw Finding Dory, another wonderful production from the guys over at Pixar. And as with many connected with Hollywood and the film industry they are [...]
Enda and Valerie speak about saving their children from autism
Enda and Val speak on the Keith Finnegan Show Val and I had the wonderful opportunity to share our story on the Keith Finnegan show. Conor and Eoin came with us and sat in on the [...]
Tuam school pilots major advance in autism language learning
LANGUAGE is the key to communication. Story by Jacqueline Hogge And with that a vital tool for learning for each and every child. But for many children with special needs, delayed speech and language [...]
Disney helps break down barriers on autism
Disney media and speech therapy combine! By Margaret Langevin, Connacht Tribune One of the most memorable quotes from finding Nemo was when Dory repeatedly said, just keep swimming, just keep swimming. That's exactly what Enda and Valerie [...]
Galway family develop language learning program for children with autism
A Galway family has developed software that aims to help children with autism communicate. Enda and Valerie Dodd’s innovative software solution ALL, Animated Language Learning, is a state of the art, visually rich language learning [...]
‘Toy Story’ gives autistic twins emotional tools to thrive
Animated Language Learning in the national news By Catherine Shanahan Irish Examiner Reporter A Disney movie, parental love, and two autistic sons whose connection with Buzz and Woody gave them the language to communicate [...]
Your speech therapist
Your speech therapist and language. When Val and I look back on the boys' early years, we could remember several specialists who provided communication therapies to the boys. But at the core of the boys' [...]
The parent advocate
The parent advocate and special needs families I am often asked by parents who made the most difference in the lives of the boys after diagnosis - a parent advocate, speech therapist, a [...]
The non verbal autistic child and how to listen
The Autistic child and communication I remember the early days of confusion surrounding Conor and Eoin after the autistic child "diagnosis". Both boys had been described as intelligent to Val and I, but at the [...]
Disney animation and the autistic child.
A great many parents worry about Disney animation overstimulating their autistic child. Without question an unsupervised autistic child can become over stimulated watching Disney animation. I remember Conor as a young child glued to his favorite Disney animation [...]