The SCC Blog
More About Pretend: Searching for Dragons
In a conversation at the lunch table, I had the opportunity to work with a little friend of mine, Jack, on growing his flexibility. Jack was sitting with Billy, Emma, and Catherine. Two of the children, Billy and Catherine, were talking about drag...
What Does Psychoanalysis Have to Offer the Treatment of an ASD Child?
What does psychoanalysis have to offer models of intervention? There are several features of psychoanalytic theory and technique that can benefit the treatment of ASD children and their parents. First, the training and experience of psychoanalysts...
Similarities and Differences Between ESDM and DIR
The similarities are that they (1) Both see autism as a neurobiological disorder whose course can be significantly affected by the early caregiving environment; (2) Both work with very young children, often 2-years old or even younger; (3) They bo...
IPMH January Weekend III: Serena Wieder on Autism Spectrum Disorders
Dr. Wieder talked about her original collaboration with Stanley Greenspan. She wanted to do outreach to underprivileged population. They started long term study of an underprivileged population to answer the question of how do you know that a chil...
IPMH January Weekend II: Sally Rogers on Autism Spectrum Disorders
Although autism is a disorder of infancy, it is not usually diagnosed until between 3 and 4 years. In a recent consortium study, 664 infants who were sibs of ASD children were followed monthly from 6 mos. to 36 mos., when they were assessed for AS...
IPMH January Weekend I: Alice Carter on Autism Spectrum Disorders
In the morning Alice Carter started out talking about internalizing problems in early childhood, such as anxiety or mood disorders. These are distinguished from externalizing disorders that include behavioral problems, such as hyperactivity and di...
Healing the Attachment System
My observations in India – just as my much longer experience in El Salvador – have led me to question the idea that the way to heal attachment disorders is either by the establishment of a potentially secure attachment relationship through adoptio...
Discipline
This is just a brief posting on a big subject that always seems disjointed to me when it is discussed out of context, but also a subject that parents and other caregivers have such headaches about that it deserves attention now and then. There are...
More About the School
The second day, Ginger and I observed pre-K and K, in two different classrooms. In both classrooms we observed the same excellent practices. First, each teacher began the day with an extended regulatory exercise. In the first classroom, teacher an...