When you have a child who has been diagnosed with autism, ensuring that everyone in the child's life is on the same page can be the only way to help make education easier. Many autistic children have significant difficulty learning even basic tasks and concepts, and receiving different instructions at home and at school can make things frustrating. Children in these situations need to undergo the same steps every time they complete a process,...more
ABA therapy is widely recognized as the premiere treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder. Designed to break tasks, concepts, and ideas into their most basic elements and steps, ABA helps to literally rewire the brain so that it can understand things in a different way. There are many different tools and tactics used in teaching ABA. There are also a number of different types of supplemental materials that help to make it easier. ...more
If you are the parent of a child who has been recently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, there is a good chance that you have heard the term ABA, or Applied Behavior Analysis therapy. ABA is a unique form of treatment for autism, and holds the distinction of being the only treatment that is scientifically proven to work. Using a process of measuring behaviors and implementing specific teaching procedures, ABA works to help children learn a very comprehensive set of skills. ABA works through guiding and positive reinforcement and can be quite successful.One of the places where autistic children differ greatly from other children is that they typically do not just pick up or grasp large concepts, ideas, and behaviors simply by observing them. While many children can look up at a gray sky and understand that this means that it will rain soon, an autistic child does not make the proper connections and understandings for this concept to be understood. ABA therapy is designed to help teach concepts and ideas in such a way that teaches the brain how to learn larger concepts. It literally helps kids learn to learn.ABA therapy certainly works, and studies show that it is by far...more
One of the biggest problems that school systems have with providing a proper education for children with autism spectrum disorder is that they tend to display negative behavior patterns. These patterns can include anything from verbal disruptions to repetitive motions, self harming actions, and more. Unfortunately, too many of today's schools...more
Some may argue that stress is prevalent in all areas of the world, but most would agree that big cities, with their concentrations of traffic, unemployment, and pollution, feature more stress than most other areas. While Los Angeles is usually at the top of lists of stressed-out cities, Chicago has had the dubious honor of being labeled Americas...more
Chronic pain patients are commonly dosed with chemical substances to help relieve their pain. However, lately we've been seeing a growing trend in the number of chronic pain patients who are seeking alternative methods to relieve pain and to lessen their chemical dependency on pain reliever drugs. Among these alternative methods is massage therapy.Massage therapy is an umbrella term for various techniques and methods that are aimed towards achieving relaxation, muscle and/or joint pain relief, rejuvenation, stress relief, or holistic treatment. Among the more common massage therapy techniques are Aromatherapy, Deep Tissue, Sports Therapy, Medical Massage, Energy Work, LaStone Therapy, Reiki, CranioSacral Therapy, Neuromuscular Therapy, Swedish, Thai, Neuromuscular Therapy, and in some spas and clinic centers, a combination of two or three of these techniques.There are more and more spas, clinic centers and learning centers that are now even engaging in community outreach activities, wherein the primary goal is to raise awareness on the benefits of massage therapy, promote holistic well-being (mind, body, and soul), and to provide free treatments. Some centers and spas even...more
Scents and essence - what benefits do they give the body? In relation to aromatherapy, there are scents that relax the mind and the body. Used by the Greeks and the Egyptians dating back to ancient civilization, the gifts of herbs from Mother Nature...more
The Most Effective TherapyHypnosis brings us into more resourceful states of mind and brainwave frequencies which have a profound effect on how we think, act and feel. This is the easiest way in the world to bring about change in ones...more
We all know that there are multitudinous benefits to massage therapy. I know that I receive regular deep-tissue massages to release toxins from my body and reduce inflammation throughout my body. But the primary reason most people go for a day in the...more
Illinois is like most other places in the United States, with the government helping to regulate and ensure the professional quality of the massage therapists who live within its jurisdiction. Indeed, 40 of 50 states now have statewide regulations of...more
The indoor tanning industry has seen a dramatic decline in UV tanners and revenue due to the economy and other factors. The only positive thing in the industry currently is the growth in sunless tanning, but now a new area of the tanning market is...more
Gene therapy is an approach employed by scientists to correct defective genes. Its principles are outlined by genetics, in which genes have a significant role in the human body's response to nutrition and medicines, and contraction of some diseases...more