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Articles by Laurel Falvo:

The following articles were written by our Executive Director, Laurel Falvo (formerly Laurel Hoekman).

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SOCIAL UNDERSTANDING and RELATED STRATEGIES: • The First Step to Social Understanding • Creative/Collaborative Problem-Solving (SOLUTION CIRCLES) • Being Social • The Art of Snail Mail • Setting and Achieving Goals • Restoring Balance in Relationships	• Sensory Integration • Be Your Child's Best Advocate • Balancing the Social Equation Using Social Stories(TM) • Together We Can Balance a Social Teeter-Totter • Traditions, Rules, and Routines   • "Give and Take" Structure   • Learning and Living Without Instruction Manuals • Sowing Seeds • Living and Parenting Deliberately • Proactive Parenting • A Very Special Teacher • Fostering Friendship	SOCIAL RESPONSE PYRAMID(TM) ARTICLES: Determining the Effectiveness of our Responses "Appropriate" Behavior Affirming Positive Choices and Effective Responses Pyramid Processing *Laurel Falvo has produced several downloadable discussion guides to use at home, in the classroom, and in therapy settings. Click here to view the selection and to purchase these resources.
ARTICLES RELATED TO AUTISM: The Search for a Cure Person-First Language To Diagnose, or Not to Diagnose Explaining a Diagnosis of Asperger Syndrome to a child	HOLIDAY ARTICLES: • Stress-Free Holidays? • Holiday Gift-Giving • New Year's Resolutions • New Year's Successes • Santa, Tooth-Fairy, Easter Bunny

Articles by Carol Gray

• The Discovery of Aspie Criteria (with Tony Attwood)

• Gray's Guide to Bullying (appendices)

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

Articles by Bruce Mills, Former member of the Gray Center board of directors

• Flood Plain (on parenting)

• The Tantrum (on parenting)