Website Resources
Ontario Autism Program
https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-autism-program
Mental health animations Parent Resources from AboutKidsHealth
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjJtOP3StIuXFJ3jjjR3THLhHNMrFFJkM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHc8hi76ZSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQdM_Cku9pA
Autism Ontario York Region
https://www.autismontario.com/chapters/york-region
Kerry's Place Austism Services
https://www.kerrysplace.org/
Baby Navigator
This work focuses on helping parents and professionals identify and act on early signs of ASD https://babynavigator.com/why-register/
- Parents monitor their child’s development up to 24 months (although website says it is for kids birth-18 months)
- Parents can start screening babies at 9 months using their system https://babynavigator.com/
- They can access the 16x16 gesture charts and 16x16 Actions with Objects lookbooks https://babynavigator.com/lookbooks/
- They can also access the SoCo (social communication) growth charts https://babynavigator.com/scgc/
- There are videos of typical development
- All of the resources here are free for families because it is grant funded.
- As parents complete the checklists, the system tells parents
immediately if there are no concerns and if there are concerns, families
get a message to contact the team at Baby Navigator and a team member
will talk parents through what is coming up in the system.
- If the parents want to act on the concerns and learn more, they are
invited to access some different resources through Autism Navigator.
(* this isn’t in place of a developmental assessment, but it is a way to
let parents get going with some specific supports on their own time
right away)
If there are no concerns , families who are registered get prompts to come back into the system every 2 months
Autism Navigator
This website is for parents whose child has a diagnosis or are starting to become concerned about their child https://autismnavigator.com
- Autism Navigator is a type of intervention
- There are courses for professionals (a quick course for physicians,
more detailed for clinicians who want to be trained to provide Autism
Navigator as an intervention)
- Providers can be trained to offer it to families and really tailor it
specifically to families but families can also move through the courses
(called the How To Guide for Families https://autismnavigator.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/About-Autism-Navi...)
and the webinars. These are live, provided by Dr. Wetherby and her
team. Families see video and see them using the strategies.
- Parents can get a code to attend the course for free by attending one
webinar or professionals who have taken the training are given codes to
give to parents so they can access for free (so professionals pay to be
trained, but parents do not – they do need to get a code though to
access the course and there are different avenues to do this)
- Families can move through the whole course in about 6 months but are enrolled and can access everything online for a year.
- The intervention itself is very focused on creating specific roles
for children within everyday family routines and activities and then
making interactions somewhat predictable and then mapping language onto
it. (so kind of hybrid of More Than Words and RBM in some ways). It
is very much parent led.
- The theoretical underpinning of Autism Navigator is SCERTS (which we
have been hearing about for a long time). SCERTS can be used as an
intervention for older children. For younger children you may also hear
about ESI (Early Social Interaction Project) -- this is basically
Autism Navigator and you can consider them one and the same. ESI is the
earlier research project. From what I can tell, the First Words Project
https://firstwordsproject.com is a (possibly older) research project that has its own website which seems to link up to the Baby Navigator resources.
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