Birdhouse Blog – Blog and Help from the Birdhouse Team

Why am I about to share my iPad password with you? Because it’s so good and so brilliant, that you’ll want to use it, too! We’ve talked before about how important and how tough it can be to teach personal information to our kids. The National Autism...

Recently a friend asked me how things are going with my daughter and instead of my usual, “everything’s great!” response, I answered honestly: “I can’t stop thinking about her toenails.”  It’s true. Every time I cut my daughter’s toenails I can’t help...

The best gifts you can give your children with autism are lessons in preparing them for the real world they will someday need to survive in.  If they don’t learn it from you, the people who love and cherish them the most, they’ll run the risk of having...

Autism can be so unpredictable. There’s no cure, there’s not one widely agreed upon cause, and no two people with autism are exactly the same. I remember when my daughter was first diagnosed at 3 years old, I asked questions like “will she ever be fully...