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So I was sitting minding my own business watching TV on my Orthopedic bed. The bed had slid out a little bit off of the bed frame, and when I scooted to the right, I fell straight off of my bed and landed on my elbow. Like right on the pointy part of my elbow.

Thank God, I didn’t hit my head, but if I had, it would’ve been serious trouble. It got me to thinking, do I need a life alert or something? Am I too young for that? I’m only 50! I have a 15-year-old but he’s only with me part-time and the rest of the time I’m alone.

Anyone have a digital copy of the SAST in Spanish?

Hello, I am looking for an archive of the Elliot in the morning. Show from the morning of 9/11. It was aired on a radio station called DC 101. I have checked their archives and they only go back 30 days. I also checked a set of archives created by listeners, but they also don’t go back that far. I was wondering if anyone knows how I could get a hold of this recording.

I want to start by stressing that I love Judy Justice because I had watched every episode of Judge Judy so many times I had them all memorized. But I’d be lying if I said sometimes while watching Judy Justice I don’t feel wistful for the days when Byrd would gesture for the plaintiff and defendant to enter the courtroom in a way that showed off his turquoise ring. I sure do miss that guy.

Signs of a Psychopath is hands-down, my favorite true crime docuseries. At this point, I have watched every episode twice, and I am hoping maybe somebody will have recommendations for me of shows or movies that are similar. I am particularly interested in the psychopath angle and watching them be interrogated. Anyone have any suggestions for me?

I am Mom to a 15 year-old boy that recently came out to me as pansexual. He came out to me about 10 months ago and shared that he is dating a trans male at his school. He kept this information from his father because his father is extremely conservative and very vocal about being anti LBGTQ.

My son is autistic and we moved him to a private school a couple of years ago. Our public school system in our area is very lacking and my son was placed in their “gifted” program, but he was still miserable. What they were learning was not challenging for him. In addition, he was bullied, quite viciously, and the administration failed to do anything about it. His new school is much more challenging and engaging for him and he loves going to school every day where he used to cry when I was driving him to school. He has made tons of friends and really thrived there.

His stepmother is friends with lots of parents who have kids that go to the same school as my kid. Apparently, she did some prying and somehow found out about my son dating a transsexual.

His father and his stepmom sat him down and expressed their objection to his sexual identity and asked him to explain his stance on it to them. But when he tried to explain it, he said they didn’t listen to him, which doesn’t surprise me at all.

Apparently the conversation was a bit heated, and he told his dad that he no longer wants to do visitation with him and only wants to live with me. We currently have 50/50 custody. His dad responded by saying that if he switched to me having full custody that my son would no longer be allowed to have contact with his younger half brother and half sister.

I am really in a bind here because I can’t afford a lawyer, but I need to protect my son.

So here is my big question: I am almost certain that my son‘s father will refuse to continue to pay for a private school if my son wants to go to court and change 100% of custody over to me. This would be absolutely devastating to my son. If we go to court about this, will a judge force my son‘s father to continue to pay for the private school he attends? Or will I end up having to pay for all of it myself if he says he no longer wants to pay? His father and I went through a very contentious and drawn out custody battle, but we have been able to create a cordial relationship and coparent effectively. But I know his father very well and absolutely believe he will try to stop paying for my son school.

Can anybody help me with this?

I am a mental health professional that works with autistic children and I also have an autistic child. I have made some bins that contain a variety of sensory toys/items that autistic children enjoy and help with calming along with some basic tips on using them to interact with autistic children. I am donating them to my local PD so that officers on patrol can have them on hand when they encounter autistic kids in the community. I’m hoping this will help build a stronger connection between our local police and our autistic community.

If this word donated to your local police force, do you think that patrol cops would use it? Do you think it’s something you’d find to be helpful?

So, I am not currently supervising a student analyst and needed something to pour my love in to, and I have a new passion project! I am in the process of creating what I am calling "comfort kits" that are named after my son (autistic, teenager now).

These kits are bins that have one bag of sensory items kids can enjoy alone and one bag of sensory items for interactive play. With these items, I have included a list of tips for engaging with autistic children and using the items to help them calm and establish trust.

I am donating the kits to my local police force. The kits will be carried by officers on patrol and used when coming into contact with autistic kids in the community during that time. The officer that manages community relations is extremely excited about it, which I am thrilled about.

What ways are you connecting with your community or any other cool passion projects you are working on?

So, I am not currently supervising a student analyst and needed something to pour my love in to, and I have a new passion project! I am in the process of creating what I am calling "comfort kits" that are named after my son (autistic, teenager now).

These kits are bins that have one bag of sensory items kids can enjoy alone and one bag of sensory items for interactive play. With these items, I have included a list of tips for engaging with autistic children and using the items to help them calm and establish trust.

I am donating the kits to my local police force. The kits will be carried by officers on patrol and used when coming into contact with autistic kids in the community during that time. The officer that manages community relations is extremely excited about it, which I am thrilled about.

What ways are you connecting with your community or any other cool passion projects you are working on?

Just a funny story. I recently bought a jack in the box that Elmo pops out of. It brought back memories of playing games like perfection and operation and how much they would stress me out. It was like painful but also I felt so alive lol

So I brought this Jack in the box into the Clinic and showed it to the kids. It was so funny to watch their reactions. They would stand there covering their ears or faces, knowing he was going to pop out, but they had huge smiles and were laughing. So funny to watch kids continue the tradition of playing with these things that stress you out so bad.

I just wanted to share that Dolly Parton has an imagination library that provides free books to kids in the community and they are excellent books! I am currently in the process of signing all of my kids up with their parents permission to share their information. I definitely recommend checking to see if you have a group in your community because this is such an amazing resource. I work with a lot of low income families that can’t afford books for their kids. This is going to be huge for them!

I have an employee who is having a baby in December. She is an excellent employee, but I honestly can’t afford to pay her when she is not working. But I don’t want her to suffer any financial hardship. She does not qualify for FMLA because my company does not have 50 or more employees. I am wondering if anyone has any advice for me? Any insurance companies that might be able to cover that so that I can help her out?

What is everybody’s position as far as views on Google? When I did some reading on it, I found that there were specific things you needed to do if someone wanted to write a review. The only one I remember that the BACB tells us we need to ensure that they understand they would be breaking confidentiality by reviewing.

Anyway, I hear that other businesses are putting up a QR code to go to their Google review page and write a review for them. How do you guys feel about that?

It just seems yucky to me, but I see all these companies with all these reviews and I’m like they have to be soliciting them. Well, not necessarily soliciting them directly, but putting up a QR code or whatever.

I am interested to get your take on this. Of course I would love to have some reviews, I had one, but it was deleted by Google because they didn’t write any text. They just gave me five stars.

I am having a hard time finding clients right now and I’m wondering if reviews would help. How do you guys feel about it?

I am wanting to listen to the uncensored episodes, but all I can find is a bunch of episodes about Dr. gloves. I think it’s called. Does anyone know how to access the uncensored episodes besides that one?

Hello everyone, I am having an issue with an RBT who is calling out way too much. I already have a policy in place as far as disciplinary action, and she has been written up once. After she got written up, she got better for a while, but now she is back to it again.

Would you guys mind sharing with me your policy on chronic absenteeism? How many cancellations can they have per month due to callouts before disciplinary action occurs? And any other details you can tell me about your policy on it would be so helpful.

Hey everyone, I am having some issues with an RBT who is chronically calling out. We are in a clinic and so of course the clients travel to get here. This morning she called out with about 12 minutes notice before her session was to start. I had to contact the mom and let her know and she had made the drive to the clinic and was almost there so she was not happy.

I am wondering what your policies are on attendance and calling out. Do you have a specific policy about how many callouts lead to disciplinary action? If so, what does that disciplinary action look like? She has already been giving a verbal warning and we sat down with her and talked about how it needed to change and it looked a bit better for a bit but now she’s back to what she was doing before.

I try to be a kind boss and am always accommodating, but this situation is really frustrating me. I could really use some help.

I wanted to share a story with you guys and see what your thoughts are on it. One time a while ago I was doing physical therapy and I knew that autism was listed as a diagnosis in my patient information. No big deal,

So one day when I was at therapy, my therapist had a practicum student with him and was training her as he worked with me. At beginning of my appointment day were standing about 10 feet away from me (within earshot) and they were discussing my treatment

During that conversation, there was a point where the therapist started to speak in a lower voice, but it was loud enough for me to hear. And he said to the practicum student something like: “Please note on her diagnoses that she has autism so there may be some behavioral concerns”.

I froze. I was feeling so angry and terribly sad inside and was just frozen. If I had been, I would’ve said something to them. But instead, I just went home and cried.

I get it that many autistic people have behaviors of concern, but not all of us do. It just really hurt my feelings that they were whispering about me in front of me when they were talking about my autism diagnosis, and that they thought I was gonna punch them in the nose or something.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think what they did is offensive? Do you ever talk about your clients like that in front of them?

Hello people! I have been toying with the idea of doing some coaching for student analysts who are struggling to prepare for the exam. I see a lot of people having difficulty on this and the ABA sub and wanted to ask if you could share your opinion/experience. If I did, this, I would definitely specialize in helping people who were having difficulty applying concepts to scenarios, breaking down questions to determine the correct answer, and questions tripping them up in general. I am pretty good at doing that and I know a lot of people are having a hard time with that specifically.

Can I ask current BCBA’s and current student analysts, if you were having difficulty with these things, would you be interested in having someone coach you via video meets? If you have done this as a student analyst or you have offered this type of thing as a BCBA, what was the hourly rate you paid/charged? And if you are a current student analyst, what do you think a reasonable rate would be and would you be interested in these kinds of services? Thanks so much everyone!