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Michal Bixon - Supporting Special Children and Families Supporting autistic children and their families. DIRFloortime®, Tomatis®. We tend to focus on difficulties and limitations.

Especially when our child is not adapting to life and learning the way we would have hoped. What if we started focusing on what makes our child unique? Who our child really is, where he shines, what makes her curious, what motivates him, what she excels in, what makes him happy and excited. Each child is a unique and interesting individual. I concentrate on understanding the child’s experience and

perception of the world, and take advantage of the child’s gifts, natural strengths, and motivations. All within a genuine relationship of real interest and respect for who the child really is. In this context, through play, interaction, and movement, while exposing to new experiences but meeting the child where she is at the moment, I help the child slowly take her own next steps in her journey in life and learning. I work collaboratively with the child’s family, those who instinctively feel and know the most about their children. I help parents understand their child’s experience better and support them, each parent finding their own unique way. I love working with neurodivergent children and their families. I have worked with autistic children, children with ADHD and learning disabilities like dyslexia, children with unique sensory processing profiles, and children with adaptive difficulties without any clear diagnosis. I am very interested in our brain, how it experiences and responds to the world, and how it adjusts and changes with our accumulated experiences. I greatly value the experiences expressed by neurodivergent kids and adults, experiences that help understand from within. I pull ideas from many different approaches, whatever seems relevant for the child and family as long as they respect who the child is. I am a practitioner of DIRFloortime®, Tomatis®, and the Jeremy Kraus Approach (JKA)®, and pull ideas from other approaches such as Judith Bluestone's HANDLE® and Soma Mukhopadhyay’s RPM®. I am continuously on the path of more learning.

22/04/2021
14/04/2021

The growth of autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement has brought about new ethical, theoretical and ideological debates within autism theory, research and practice. These debates have had genuine impact within some areas of autism research but their influence is less evident within e...

09/04/2021

The latest in our series of summaries of significant research studies concerning our community, this piece helps non-academics to understand Vikram Jaswal and Nameera Akhtar’s work on Autistic social motivation.

12/02/2021

On December 24, 2020, the musician Sia publicly offered to fund CommunicationFIRST to make an introductory short to her new movie MUSIC. The short was intended to help humanize and spread awareness about real nonspeaking autistic people, who were left out of MUSIC, despite being the subject of the movie. After a team of nonspeaking and autistic people brought together by CommunicationFIRST in January 2021 previewed MUSIC and provided feedback and recommendations to Sia on how to improve it, they received no response from her team. In early February 2021, CommunicationFIRST decided to move forward to produce a self-funded short by and with real nonspeaking autistic people, and to launch it on February 12, 2021, the MUSIC US release date.

The film LISTEN is the result.

Read more and watch the film: https://communicationfirst.org/LISTEN/

22/12/2020
30/08/2020

It's like mixing up two phrases together, but with your fingers! The disconnect between my brain and my fingers is...interesting sometimes.

13/07/2020

On May 12, 2020, our study on nonspeaking autistic people who communicate using a letterboard was published in Scientific Reports. A new 2.5-minute animated video abstract is below.

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