Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, Publications, Resources
New edition of the Australian Autism Handbook is finally available in print! Beyond grateful to have had the opportunity to take part in “Eating” in: “The Big Issues: Sleeping, Toilet Training, and Eating” with Dr. Sarah Leadley Taylor. Thanks a million and congrats to Benison O’Reilly and Seana Smith!
“A fully updated edition of the widely praised and most trusted Australian guide on how to raise a child with autism spectrum disorder.” “Advice from leading world experts delivers the information you can TRUST.”
Oct 14, 2022 | Resources
Today is Allied Health Professions Day (14 October 2022). Please join us in celebrating and thanking AHPs who include dietitians, occupational therapists, psychologists and speech pathologists for the valuable work they do.
We are putting the spotlight on psychologists, Jessica Gowans, Tessa Taylor, PhD, BCBA-D and Dr. Sarah Leadley, who kindly volunteered their time to provide information videos that ausEE shared as part of this year’s Feeding Tube Awareness Week ‘Virtual Education Program’.
Psychologists, Dr Tessa Taylor and Dr Sarah Leadley presented their research on childhood feeding difficulties and experience with home-based interventions in Australia and New Zealand to help children with tube dependence learn to eat new foods and progress with feeding skills.
Jessica Gowans, a psychologist and tubie parent shared tips, information and resources on how to look after yourself as a tubie parent/carer.
Apr 19, 2022 | Publications, Resources, Social Validity
Free editable surveys to use! Check out the supplementary docs for this article (scroll to the bottom at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bin.1879). These could be used by both practitioners and researchers, and adapted for any area of ABA, not just feeding. Lots of clinical utility and future directions for further research.
Apr 7, 2022 | Featured, Publications, Resources, Reviews
“In this month’s issue, Sheila Klick, MEd, BCBA and Dr. Mary Jane Weiss, highlight the importance of carefully searching for and selecting, evidence-based treatment options when children are experiencing feeding issues. While reviewing research by Taylor & Taylor (2021), the authors describe how current recommendations may not align with current research, and how parents can beware of adverse reactions to these treatment options.” The distance between empirically-supported treatment and actual practice for paediatric feeding problems
