Handouts are online HERE
This is a follow-up to Ms. Peña’s webinar, Sensory-Friendly Strategies at Home.
Please note: This previously recorded Q & A session is not intended to diagnose or treat any medical conditions and should not replace a personal consultation, as appropriate, with a qualified healthcare professional.
Resources mentioned during the session include:
On Vocal Stimming:
- Stimming and Autism: Parents’ Guide to Snorting
- LOMAH Disability Podcast: Vocal and Verbal Stimming
- Sensory Processing Differences Toolkit – Aide Canada
On our current understanding of the neurobiology of autism:
- ▪Ameis, Stephanie H., et al. “A diffusion tensor imaging study in children with ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, OCD, and matched controls: distinct and non-distinct white matter disruption and dimensional brain-behavior relationships.” American Journal of Psychiatry 173.12 (2016): 1213-1222.
- Aide Canada interview with Dr. Evdokia Anagnostou
About the speaker:
Moira Peña, BScOT, MOT, OT Reg. (Ont.) is an experienced occupational therapist working with children and youth on the autism spectrum at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an Expert Hub Team member of the ECHO Ontario Autism Program which aims to further develop pediatricians’, school psychologists’ and teachers’ skills to best support autistic children and youth and their families. A published researcher, she has presented nationally and internationally to parents, teachers, occupational therapy practitioners and other health care professionals. Moira is also the proud creator and host of Holland Bloorview’s Autism Summit.
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