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Your guide to creating routines that reduce stress and
foster independence in your neurodivergent child, inside
and outside the home.
How Being an Empowered Partner Strengthens Your Family and Supports Your Child’s Success
Your child looks to you for safety, support and guidance. As their parent, you are their constant, their home. You...
How Establishing Consistent Routines Can Transform Your Child’s Day and Reduce Your Parenting Stress
Parenting a neurodivergent child can feel like navigating a constant whirlwind. Between meltdowns, impulsivity, and...
How An Early Autism Diagnosis for Landon Led to Improved Social Skills and a Confident Parent
Every parent wants to feel like they’re doing their best for their child, especially when navigating the early stages...
What it Means to be a BCBA at Optimal Beginnings
Becoming a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) is a rewarding career in the field of Behavioral Analysis, centered...
Take A Virtual Tour Through Optimal Beginnings’ New Rockville Office
From the moment you step through the door, you'll feel the warmth of a space designed to make every child and family...
Meet The Preschool Alternative that Puts Your Child’s Needs First
Navigating the early education stages of your child’s development, particularly with an autism diagnosis, can be both...
Embracing Possibilities: Celebrating Autism Awareness Month
As April rolls around, so does Autism Awareness Month, a time dedicated to shedding light on autism spectrum disorder...
Pioneering a New Path: Integrated Services is the New ABA
In 2022, we blazed a new path forward in our industry introducing a revolutionary way to care for the families seeking...
Parent Testimonial: Haimi & Noah
Old enough for elementary school but never having left his mother’s side, Haimi needed help, and she needed it NOW!...
How Integrated Services Benefits Your Entire Family
The Integrated Services model at Optimal Beginnings is here to remove things from your plate, while maintaining the goal of independence for your child.
2022 SOCIAL SKILLS SUMMER PROGRAM
Our Social Skills program was created to help children learn the skills needed to successfully navigate their social environments in a small group setting.
Why You Need a Parent Coach
To state the obvious, parenting can be exhausting. The fatigue can be completely overwhelming when a child is...
Mamas – You Need a Break…and a Squad
Life is fantastic. But sometimes, life sucks. I often think about how much resilience it takes to be a parent - mom or...
FAQs – Your Questions Answered about Our Onboarding Process
In tandem with our blog on how our Onboarding Process works (check out the post HERE), we came up with a list of...
A Walk-Through of Our Onboarding Process
When a child gets diagnosed with a developmental delay, the first place most of us tend to go is ‘wise-old’ Google....
The Problem with Multitasking, and How to Get Rid of It
Multitasking is a lie. There - I said it. The concept of multitasking has been on my mind for a while now. I've been...
Shape Sorters & Leadership
I saw a post on a social media site that was some kind of a rendition of the shape sorter. You know, the toy where...
2019 Social Skills Program – SPRING & SUMMER
We are excited to announce our Social Skills Program for Summer 2019! Our Social Skills Program focuses on helping...
The Hard Stuff Series: Is it time for THE talk?
There are so many ‘talks’ we need to have with our kids these days: bullying, dealing with the media, peer pressure,...
The Hard Stuff Series: Punishment 101s
To punish or not to punish, that is the question! Besides channelling my inner Hamlet, I wonder how many of us parents...
The Hard Stuff Series: Media & Our Kids
We can’t help that news is everywhere nowadays. It consumes our phones, social media, conversations, and television...
The Hard Stuff Series: When Bullying Takes Over
I’m a parent. I understand what being a parent means, what it entails, all of its frustrations, but also, all of its...
What is a Speech-Generating Device?
By: Janine Segner There is a lot of terminology in education and the field of speech therapy that refers to...
We’re Hiring in Nashville, TN!
Have you heard? Optimal Beginnings LLC is hiring Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA) for our Nashville, TN...
Stuttering: what to look for and when to seek help.
By: Janine Segner Stuttering can be a scary speech difficulty for many families. It can appear out of nowhere and seem...
Five Steps to Get Your Child to Listen
What is it about listening that makes asking for a rational task to be done to fall on deaf ears? The constant...
When the Whining Won’t Stop
This month we’re dedicating all our blog posts to behavioral problems, why they occur, and evidence-based solutions to...
5 Strategies For Better Conversations With Your Child
“Suzy can never tell me what she did at school today.” “Andrew doesn’t talk to me about his friends.” Does this sound...
Optimal Beginnings’ Rebrand Journey
OUR VISION It all started with a vision: Optimal Beginnings (OB) as a multifaceted organization, a fluid organism that...
Cheers to New Beginnings
OUR JOURNEY It’s been an incredible journey. When we first started Optimal Beginnings, we were modestly working in our...
3 Easy Problem Solving Activities for Toddlers!
The toddler years can be challenging, to say the least! The tantrums, the will, the giggles, and laughter can be a...
Social interactions are hard…
Social interactions are really hard. Talking to someone else is riddled with unspoken rules and regulations. How close...
Time-outs and how to make them work!
Time-outs are behaviour discipline technique used by parents and the one most often recommended by pediatricians and...