For myself, when I am in an environment where I can say whatever I feel I need to say, that the very act of saying it changes my thinking about it. There’s nothing better to sort out thinking errors than to try to say them out loud. While I’m only thinking about something, it makes perfect sense to me.

As a skills trainer and behavior support specialist for developmentally disabled adults, I often find myself in the community and in the company of people whose behavior is often outside the realm of what other people find comfortable. In many situations, the reactions of my customers are often overstated by social norms and draw the […]