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Polly’s Place: Coming to America

Posted on October 16, 2020 | 0 Comment

Eight weeks ago I was looking at an empty shell of a building with a budget of only £1500 ($2,400 in the U.S.) to create a shop.  My vision is… Read more »

Resisting Labels

Resisting Labels

Posted on October 10, 2020 | 0 Comment

When someone asks where my child falls on the spectrum, I respond “somewhere in the middle.”  When you tell someone you have a child with autism, it’s likely the first… Read more »

To Every Thing, there is a Season: Childcare and the Calendar

To Every Thing, there is a Season: Childcare and the Calendar

Posted on September 12, 2020 | 3 Comments

Greetings Autism File readers! My name is Erik Nanstiel and I am a single parent of a teenage girl with autism, residing in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. I have been raising… Read more »

Vitamin D and Autism: The sunshine connection.

Vitamin D and Autism: The sunshine connection.

Posted on September 5, 2020 | 0 Comment

Science can be a fickle thing sometimes. Research interests wax and wane and priorities shift as a consequence of trends, resources and funding. Take for example the science behind vitamins… Read more »

School Lunch Special: Ensure your kids fill up the right way with these easy lunch ideas.

School Lunch Special: Ensure your kids fill up the right way with these easy lunch ideas.

Posted on August 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

Lunch is such an important meal—in fact, it’s the main meal that needs to sustain your child during the day until he or she gets home from school. As parents,… Read more »

Think Color in Your Diet

Think Color in Your Diet

Posted on July 31, 2020 | 1 Comment

Choosing foods to aid health, thinking colorfully when it comes to fruits and vegetables, including protein in those snack attacks, and more… To help ensure that children obtain the wide… Read more »

Billy’s End of Year Report

Billy’s End of Year Report

Posted on July 23, 2020 | 1 Comment

I have just been handed Billy’s end of year report.  Before I share this with you, let’s just remind ourselves of who Billy is. Billy is 16 and has autism;… Read more »

iPad, Therefore I am

iPad, Therefore I am

Posted on July 18, 2020 | 8 Comments

Assistive technology takes special education classrooms by storm… I’m standing inside the entrance of a classroom at Douglas MacArthur Elementary School in Hoffman Estates, IL where autism spectrum students and… Read more »

Autism Diets: It’s Not Rocket Science…

Autism Diets: It’s Not Rocket Science…

Posted on July 13, 2020 | 1 Comment

There’s a lot of evidence—both scientific evidence and anecdotal—indicating that children with autism can improve and even re- cover from the disorder, and that making strategic changes to the foods… Read more »

Things Worth Knowing When it Comes to Food

Posted on July 11, 2020 | 1 Comment

As the author of a gluten-free, dairy- free, egg-free, peanut-free, and tree nut-free cookbook, it is easy to imagine that I talk and write about food all the time. My… Read more »

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