26 Jun · Kamini Lakhani · 5 Comments
6 Tips To Build Resilience In Your Child
It’s a tough world out there. Recent, painful occurrences have reinforced this belief for me. Human relationships are complex. Understanding and dealing with people is difficult. What appears to the naked eye, often isn’t reality. Add to this the uncertainty due to the pandemic and economic situations being badly hit the world…
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12 Jun · Kamini Lakhani · 5 Comments
Do you struggle to set limits for your autistic child?
Does your child have this uncanny ability to press your buttons- and leave you feeling helpless? Do you wish you could control him better so that there is peace in your house? Do you feel emotionally enmeshed with your child’s distress and can’t untangle yourself? Do you feel that…
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28 May · Kamini Lakhani · No Comments
Your Primary Role As A Parent, During This Pandemic
On my evening walk at the terrace the other day, I was intrigued by a scene in a neighbor’s living room. Yes, Mumbai gives us this opportunity to glance into somebody’s living room in an adjoining building! I could see the mother busy at her kitchen counter. Her daughter (about 9 years old)…
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15 May · Kamini Lakhani · 2 Comments
How To Develop Intrinsic Motivation In Your Autistic Child
How many times have you caught yourself saying, “But my child doesn’t want to do anything?” Recently, I received a similar question from a webinar participant. My son is an adult. But he’s not motivated to do anything. I have to push him to do activities. How will he ever be independent? …
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30 Apr · Kamini Lakhani · 3 Comments
Why You Should Not Focus On IQ Scores And Look At This Instead
Some day the truths about autism will not be disputable. People who work and care about people with autism will replace many doctors and therapists who have been too stubborn to listen to anything but themselves. I feel as more books come out and more of us with autism come forward, the old ways of…
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