Connie Hammer
MSW, PCI Certified Parent Coach®
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The Progressive Parent, LLC Expert
Connie Hammer Quick Facts
For more than twenty years, Connie Hammer, MSW and PCI Certified Parent Coach has been energetically guiding frustrated, lost and confused parents to achieve their parenting hopes and dreams with her amazing skills. As parent educator, consultant and coach, Hammer is passionate about supporting parents of young children recently diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Hammer is very adept at customizing her support to any parent’s unique situation so they can joyfully and successfully parent the child they were meant to have despite any physical, cognitive, social or emotional challenges.
Connie founded her parent coaching business, The Progressive Parent, LLC in 2005 after she acquired her Parent Coach Certification™ from The Parent Coaching Institute of Bellevue, Washington, the nation’s only Parent Coach Certification™. In 2010 she established, Parent Coaching for Autism, a subsidiary of The Progressive Parent, to provide resources, programs and specialized assistance to parents of children on the Autism spectrum.
Prior to this Hammer spent seventeen years working as a school social worker counseling children and supporting parents. Due to her previous work with students of special needs and the alarming numbers of children being diagnosed with Autism, her mission continues to be helping parents uncover their children’s abilities in order to change possibilities. This internationally published expert enjoys coaching parents from all over the world, in person or on the phone. You can contact her via email connie@parentcoachingforautism.com or visit her at www.parentcoachingforautism.com
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Parenting a Child with Autism: 3 Secrets to Thrive
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From Bathroom Battles to Bathroom Bliss – Potty Training 101 - sneak peek
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3 Simple Secrets for a Smooth Sail Back-to-school - sneak peek
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Connie Hammer Audio & Video Programs
From Bathroom Battles to Bathroom Bliss – Potty Training 101
http://parentcoachingforautism.com/products/potty-training-101-workbook/
3 Simple Secrets for a Smooth Sail Back-to-school
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Top Ten Secrets to a Stress-free Morning with a Child on the Autism Spectrum
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Accepting Autism to Become an Effective Advocate
Did you sense how your identity changed when you became a parent? At the moment of birth or adoption, our lives are never the same because once a parent, always a parent. Despite the fact that our self-identity shifted once Mother Nature inaugurated us as mom or dad, this new role is not necessarily a fixed one because our children will always impact it.
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Coping With Overwhelm As a Parent of a Child With Autism
Your son with Asperger's is refusing to go to school. Your sensory sensitive daughter is constantly testing your patience when it comes to mealtime. Your six year old with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is throwing tantrums like clockwork. Your four-year-old child with PDD is not responding positively to potty training. Is there anything about these scenarios that you can relate to?
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The Power of Positive Self-Talk for Kids With Autism
What type of messages do you think are going on inside your child's mind? Children with special needs such as Autism will intuitively grasp that they are different and pick up on the less than positive judgments from others - however subtle they may be. Do you pay attention to that voice inside your head? I am not talking about auditory hallucinations here. I am referring to the things we say to ourselves everyday. That continuous chatter of our inner dialogues that typically never stops unless we actively meditate.
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Understanding and Dealing With Angry Behavior in Young Children With Autism
If your child hits, bites, screams, pushes and destroys things and you are at a loss for what to do, don't dismay. Negative behaviors such as these are learned and they can be unlea ed as well. Keep in mind that misbehavior is simply an expression of an unmet need or an inability to cope with the circumstances in the current environment.
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Autism Isn't Fair to Me! Promoting Positive Feelings Among Siblings
If you have more than one child, do they compete for your attention? Do you detect jealousy that you would rather not see? Does the amount of bickering among your children and lobbying for No. 1 position conce you as a parent? Welcome to the world of parenting!
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Raising a Child With Autism When Hugs Are In Short Supply
Will a diagnosis of an Autism Spectrum Disorder limit my emotional connection to my child? As parents we all want to cuddle, kiss and hold our children. Not only do they feel good to hold but they smell good too - most of the time. But what is a parent to do when their child pulls away from their touch, refuses to be embraced or won't hug back?
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Positive Parenting Tips for Responding to Report Cards
As parents, we all want to do what we can to reduce any type of school related anxiety for our children and minimize the possible stress it can bring into our households. As a parent coach, I have guided many parents to discover ways that will make school a positive experience for their child. ...As parents, we all want to do what we can to reduce any type of school related anxiety for our children and minimize the possible stress it can bring into our households. As a parent coach, I have guided many parents to discover ways that will make school a positive experience for their child.
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3 Important Steps for Keeping Your Child Safe From Abuse
This is an ever-changing world and there are many things in it that we would like to protect our children from. The last thing any parent wants to see is their child violated, hurt or in pain. As parents, we do our best to provide our children with safety equipment, expose them to lessons that will give them the tools to protect themselves and be there for them when they need us. Unfortunately, we cannot be with our children 24-7, especially as they grow and venture into the world towards independence.
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Replacing Negative Behaviors in Children With Habit Training
Parents often complain that they work on changing one irritating behavior only to find their child has replaced it with another annoying action. The easy solution to this problem is to choose the replacement behavior yourself and instill it as a habit.
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A Dozen Ideas to Manage Your ASD Child's Repetitive Behaviors
There are many things we do to stimulate or calm our senses. We rock babies to soothe them and we sing or hum to ourselves in the shower, we fan ourselves to cool off when we are hot, and we hug and kiss others to give and receive comfort. When we want to increase or arouse our senses we often run or engage in some form of physical activity or exercise, or we may turn the music on loud to get in a party mood and dance. Most of these behaviors are seen as appropriate if carried out at the proper time and in the proper place.
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Strategies to Deal With My ASD Child Who Isn't Interested in the Holidays
Do you have a child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) that is just not interested in the holiday fanfare? Unfortunately, many children on the spectrum may be tuned out or just not interested in some or all that comes with the holidays.
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The Easy Way to Tell A Child They Have Autism?
Parents of children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder often fret about when to tell their child they have an Autism Spectrum Disorder and how. What if you didn't have to tell your child he or she has Autism? Wouldn't it be nice if you lived in a world where your child could just 'be' - no disclosure necessary, no labels? Ah, yes, it would but that might be a bit unrealistic. But what if I told you there was an easy way to tell your child? What if I told you that you can create a positive experience for telling your child he or she has Autism?
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The Progressive Parent - A Parent Coaching Business
The Progressive Parent, LLC is a parent coaching business which offers parents a new age resource for age old parenting issues that produces solutions, relief, results, confidence and joy! Serving any parent, of any age child, on any matter!
July 27, 2010
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Parent Coaching for Autism
A website for parents of young children recently diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder providing supportive resources and information that helps parents uncover abilities and change possibilities as they face the challenges of raising an autistic child in today's world.
June 8, 2010
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The Progressive Parent, LLC
The Progressive Parent, LLC- a certified parent coaching business that provides individuals, couples and groups with parenting guidance, information and support through a face-to-face or long distance phone coaching model as well as workshops and seminars.
April 21, 2009