CynthiaParkhill

To commemorate the National Day of Reading on Feb. 27, 2026, here is a complete reading of Marley’s Pride by Joëlle Retener with illustra...

Eating is easily the most difficult sensory task for this woman on the autism spectrum. Risking unfamiliar tastes and textures, it takes ...

There is little-to-nothing pleasant about the prospect of being stuck in a roomful of people simultaneously talking around me. These num...

I am a member of the last “invisible generation” of people on the autism spectrum, who missed out on diagnosis in childhood because of at-th...

As validated as I felt learning that a book like this exists, I felt even more validated when reading Food Chaining by Cheryl Fraker, Mar...

“Validation” would be my choice if I had to name my feelings reading this statement by Loree Primeau, PhD: “Since feeding involves all sen...

In The Sensory Child Gets Organized (Touchstone, 2013), author Carolyn Dalgliesh teaches parents/caregivers to design organizational syst...

AFC Education Coordinator Mary Shaw taught a Pantry Basics class on March 20 One highlight of a week spent in Ashland, Ore. in order to...

I gave my "icebreaker" speech last night for Toastmasters! It went very well! The group gave me good feedback about the streng...

I've started attending services among a Unitarian Universalist community that meets at a local senior center. At the first two services ...