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                          ASPIRING MINDS , Your GPS to your child's educational program.
                                                                                                 
This website is for parents of students with autism and other learning disabilities who honor their child with their incredible strength, courage and unrelenting fortitude. Behind the success of a child with a disability, lies a parent who continues to have a vision fueled by a passion to make a difference in the life of his or her child.

Billions of dollars are spent each year to millions of students who receive special education services. Yet, because learners with autism and other learning disabilities present with unique challenges, their educational needs continue to elude the most caring parents and experienced teachers. Advocating for your child is daunting.
 
You know enough to feel hat something is not right yet you don't know where to turn to for help or where to begin?

Aspiring Minds helps you gather the essential pieces of the educational puzzle.  The level of support we provide depends on what you need.  Our experience spans both research and clinical practice. It garnered the trust of parents and the respect of school districts with whom we continue to work closely and collaboratively.  

We:
* Help you secure the right educational programs for your child. 
* Attend IEP meetings and assist you in developing result-driven Individualized Educational Plans.
* Observe your child in the classroom and help you make program adjustments if/when necessary. 
* Empower you to become your child's best advocate.      
 
We also provide....
* Home ABA services supervised by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).
* Home instructional educational supplementary services.
* Parent training to help you better understand and overcome your child's behavioral, developmental, 
  educational, and emotional challenges.
* Social skills groups for ages 4-7.
* Independent evaluations (psychological, educational and occupational therapy).
* Availability 24/7.

                                                                                           Call us,  if only to talk.......



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Perspectives on autism.

Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger independentlly of each other, first published accounts of autism as a disorder.

Leo Kanner’s (1943).

“An extreme autistic aloneness that, whenever possible, disregards, ignores, shuts out anything that comes to the child from the outside”.

“Profound aloneness dominates all behaviors”.

“The child’s behavior is governed by an anxiously obsessive desire for the maintenance of sameness”.

“Inborn disturbances of affective contact”

 

Hans Asperger’s (1944)

“A fundamental disturbance which manifests itself in difficulties with social integration”.

“In many cases, the failure to be integrated in a social group is the most conspicuous feature, but in other cases, this failure is compensated for by particular originality of thought and experience, which may well lead to exceptional achievements in later life”.

“The normal speech melody, the natural flow of speech is missing… speech is often sing-song”.

  
Aspiring Minds - Tel. 888-470-1119 - aspiringminds@msn.com - Fax. 732-960-9955