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The following articles were written by our Executive Director, Laurel Falvo (formerly known as Laurel Hoekman). To receive her weekly e-mail articles pertaining to autism and/or social understanding, subscribe to The SUN News here. To find out more about our SUN (Social Understanding Network), click here. If you would like to comment on current issues of SUN News, you can do so at Laurel's SUN News blog. (More recent issues of SUN News are also available on that blog site). To find out more about Laurel Falvo, or to invite her to speak for your group or organization, click here.

SUN News articles by Laurel Falvo:

(Click on an article title to go to that article.) More recent issues of SUN News can be found on Laurel's blog at http://graycenter.wordpress.com.

• The First Step to Social Understanding

• Creative/Collaborative Problem-Solving (SOLUTION CIRCLES)

• Being Social

• The Art of Snail Mail

• Stress-Free Holidays?

• Holiday Gift-Giving

• New Year's Resolutions

• New Year's Successes

• Santa, Tooth-Fairy, Easter Bunny

• Traditions, Rules, and Routines

• "Give and Take" Structure

• The Search for a Cure

• Person-First Language

• To Diagnose, or Not to Diagnose

• Learning and Living Without Instruction Manuals

• Sowing Seeds

• Living and Parenting Deliberately

• Proactive Parenting

• A Very Special Teacher

• Fostering Friendship

• Setting and Achieving Goals

• Restoring Balance in Relationships

Other Articles by Laurel Falvo

• Sensory Integration

• Be Your Child's Best Advocate

• Explaining a Diagnosis of Asperger's to a Child

• Balancing the Social Equation Using Social Stories(TM)

• Together We Can Balance a Social Teeter-Totter

Articles by Carol Gray

• The Discovery of Aspie Criteria (with Tony Attwood)

• Gray's Guide to Loss

• Gray's Guide to Bullying (appendices)

• *Click here to read a research study on The Sixth Sense II.

Articles by Bruce Mills, Vice-President of the Gray Center board of directors

• Flood Plain (on parenting)

• The Tantrum (on parenting)