Function First Therapy, LLC

08/13/2024

Excited to share I’ve completed recent continuing education through Get Permission Institute. They have an amazing FREE online course for parents. Check it out at their website
https://course.getpermissioninstitute.com/pages/courses

Call (314) 252-8983 today to schedule your feeding evaluation.

Can you imagine repeating something 8-12 times a day or 5-8 times a day that was HIGHLY STRESSFUL? That wasn't working? That was making someone cry?

Mealtime stress is not something that caregivers can escape. How can we repair mealtimes that have not gone well? How can we help parents find mealtime peace?

Check out our on demand library to view our Free Parent Resource for an introduction to responsive feeding or dive deeper into milestone achievement through a responsive lens with our Master Course, Learning Through Opportunity: Feeding In Infancy and Toddlerhood.

04/04/2024

April is Autism Acceptance Month. Sharing another great resource from Autism Level UP. No matter where you are at in your Autism Acceptance journey, there is always room to grow and learn more!

Getting out ahead of April this year!

Our cover photo references the Autism Level UP! guide to all the Autism Level UP! Levels ❤️💛

Some of you might be wondering what that is or wonder how it relates to our name - Autism Level UP!

Autism awareness is not enough! It is time to spread this message far and wide.

What's your level? Awareness? Acceptance? Appreciation? Empowerment? Advocacy?

How will you take your next steps to Autism Level UP!?

The "guide" speaks for itself! We've created a downloadable Google Drive so you can grab the guide and share it. Will link in comments!

The Autism Level UP! Guide to all the Autism Level UP! Levels is actually in 11 languages. Thank you to our AMAZING community members for providing translations!

English
Portuguese
Spanish
Japanese
Chinese
French
Romanian
Dutch
Greek
Romanian
German
Italian

Image description- the essential guide in English- the link above will take you to all pdfs that can be used with .pdf screen reader

10/27/2023

What a child-led play means...

Source: Kids Connect Psychology

08/16/2023

A great reminder from Autism Level UP as the school year is starting.

Don’t be afraid to help your child advocate for how they learn best!

Bumper and their accompanying tools will always be free. We will pop the 🔗 in the comments again. We're amped that they generated so much interest yesterday.

A few have asked about poster size Bumper to put in up a classroom. You have options -

1) You can always print Bumper to larger scale on your own printer. Will only cost you your ink and paper (and a tiny bit of time).
2) We do have really nice printed versions available for sale, too. If you are interested in those, we will put the link to order those below, too.
❤️💛

Image description: Meet Bumper: the whole body learner graphic describing how Bumper actively learns in the environment using all parts of their body. The question - what do you look like when you are learning is at the bottom