“Demand avoidance”—a knee-jerk, defiant reaction to any direction to cooperate with a task or to make a transition—is a phenomenon that I see frequently in my work with families of highly sensitive ...

The achievable goal to follow simple directions should be at the top of the list for your child’s ABA therapist, says Cindy Mrotek at a.c.e. Therapies. Many parents of a child with autism struggle to ...