How to Advocate and Become a Better Advocate for Children with Autism

Dr. Mary Barbera discusses how to advocate and become better at advocating for children with autism with these 5 child advocacy tips.

Becoming a better advocate for your child with autism is crucial when going through the treatment process. If you’re wondering how to advocate for your child even, you’ve probably been doing it for a while now already without knowing. Advocating for your child is simply supporting them in getting what they need to live a happier and more successful life. This video aims to help you start becoming a better advocate for your child with five tips.

I believe that to improve child advocacy skills, parents and professionals need to work together. Special education advocacy can be rough, so it’s important for everyone to be on the same page and being as supportive as can be. And to advocate autism is even harder as there are many waiting lists, assessment requirements and insurance issues. But with a supportive environment, an assessment, a plan that is based off that assessment, and parents and autism professionals working together, you and your child could live happier with less stress.

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Dr. Mary Barbera. I fell into the autism world as an autism mom in 1999 when her first-born son, Lucas, was diagnosed with autism. Since then, she became a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and best-selling author of The Verbal Behavior Approach. Since 2015, she’s created 3 autism online courses based on applied behavior analysis for professionals and "gung-ho" parents. Whether you’re looking for autism parenting strategies, working with development delays in children, or in search for autism help for professionals, I can encourage you to subscribe to the channel and join me on my journey. I’ll be providing weekly autism resources that you don’t want to miss!

[marybarbera]

What was your favorite tip or most helpful tip you found in today's video blog?

[nicoleacosta]

I really could use an advocate for my autism right now.

[TheodoraKimmelHello]

We should have learning interactive games for adults with autism to use. Storyline development for an episode of Minecraft might be one, and include problem solving.

[riddhishah]

Pair your assessment with someone either professional or parents to know the same thing from other's perspective...I think it's very important...I am a parent and I always do this with my son's super ma'am from the school

[TS-tykd]

Can u plz share ur free 1 page assessment. Can’t find it in description. Thxs