Empowering Parents: Parent Led Therapy for Children with Autism

Mary Barbera discusses empowering parents and parent led therapy for children with autism.
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Parents taking charge is really important. You are your child's lifelong advocate, and you can be their best teacher. Empowering parents to become the captain of the ship is something I talk about a lot in my book and have highlighted it often on a lot of appearances I have made. So whether you are a parent or professional, this information is so crucial to helping parents.

I tell you about three parents and how they took charge and made massive gains and impacts on their child’s lives. Each of these mothers were in unique situations with children of varying abilities or delays, but all of them purchased one of my programs and dug into the resources to really help their child.

Many parents and professionals think that parents shouldn't have to be therapists. They have a variety of reasons: they are busy, they have a lot going on, they should get to keep family time separate from therapy. As a parent AND professional, I get it. I really do, but the thing is that as the parent we are in the best position to truly help our kids. We will be with them forever, and we have the ability to give them more time to work on their skills than what they would qualify for or be able to receive in a professional setting.

In today’s video you’ll learn:
-Why am I advocating for parents to take charge?
-Stories of parents taking charge.
-Why is parent-led therapy important?
-Parent resources in my book Turn Autism Around.

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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 of 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.