The Helping House

The Helping House The Helping House is dedicated to providing early intervention behavioral therapy for children with autism or other developmental delays.

Summer Lunch! We are so grateful to our first Summer Clinic Lunch Sponsor ! She bought us an entire enchilada and taco ...
06/16/2026

Summer Lunch! We are so grateful to our first Summer Clinic Lunch Sponsor ! She bought us an entire enchilada and taco buffet from Fuzzy's for our first weekly staff meeting!

Something you may not know about us is that, as a staff at Summer Clinic, we usually can't eat at work. We leave hungry every day at the end of the day. But Thursdays are special. We have a full staff meeting where we discuss kids and their behaviors and our interventions and plans for the following days. And we EAT!

Thank you, Jody, for being a True Friend of The Helping House Summer Clinic! 💜💚

06/13/2026

Week 2: Under the Big Top!

Summer Clinic 2026 Week 2 🎪Under the Big Top! This week we built rapport with our friends and staff, practiced working t...
06/13/2026

Summer Clinic 2026 Week 2 🎪

Under the Big Top! This week we built rapport with our friends and staff, practiced working together, perfected our routines, added in some chores, and even went to Clown College! (Many of us are natural comedians - we just need pointers on timing 🤡)

06/06/2026

Summer Clinic 2026 Week 1 🌊

We’re back and we brought new friends! This week we practiced our routines and expectations and checked to make sure the new staff were on their toes! We had a shark attack and a hula party, and counted so many fish. Week one always wipes us out - it is exciting and exhausting, loud and messy. But we are so ready for the growth this Summer Clinic will bring! 💜💚

Summer Clinic 2026 Week 1 🌊We’re back and we brought new friends! This week we practiced our routines and expectations a...
06/06/2026

Summer Clinic 2026 Week 1 🌊

We’re back and we brought new friends! This week we practiced our routines and expectations and checked to make sure the new staff were on their toes! We had a shark attack and a hula party, and counted so many fish. Week one always wipes us out - it is exciting and exhausting, loud and messy. But we are so ready for the growth this Summer Clinic will bring! 💜💚

School may be out for the summer, but The Helping House is not ☀️ Summer is actually our busiest and most expensive seas...
05/31/2026

School may be out for the summer, but The Helping House is not ☀️ Summer is actually our busiest and most expensive season, because our kids need structured support year-round to keep moving forward. Your gift to All the Tools for Tomorrow helps make sure we can give them our best tools🛠️ ✔️: https://thehelpinghouse.harnessgiving.org/campaigns/20506

05/28/2026

We are so excited to partner with this AMAZING resource for our Shelby County families! What a wonderful ministry to help our kiddos access services they need! Thank you Uniting Pieces!

Summer break can mean skill regression for children with developmental delays, and our Summer Clinic exists to make sure...
05/27/2026

Summer break can mean skill regression for children with developmental delays, and our Summer Clinic exists to make sure that does not happen. ☀️ Turn summer regression into growth by supporting us today: https://ow.ly/LbSJ50YZav8

05/24/2026

3️⃣ Feeding Therapy, Part III

Current Slevin

He has tried lots of foods over the past year and a half. This is all due to mom's persistent and patient exposure. He feels safe (obviously he's at home with no clothes on!) and he has time to process and work through it on his own. He has tried chicken pot pie, sloppy joes, squash, berries, sweet potatoes - all manner of foods mixed together, heated up, and with a variety of textures. In the video, he is trying coffee for the first time by dipping his donut in it.

Is this typical of all of our kids? Not necessarily. But it IS POSSIBLE. I wanted to share this hope. Feeding therapy is not overnight. We have a long game. Most important to this is trust and rapport. Mom also attributes his flexibility to the use of THC tinctures for a time.

My favorite thing is to hear of our kids' continued successes, well beyond their time at THH. I love to hear that he is using strategies he learned ten years ago to try new things!

We are so proud of Slevin (and his mama!)

05/24/2026

2️⃣ Feeding Therapy, Part II

Slevin, circa 2019.

Our rapport is such that I know he loves "closing the circle" and completing activities and earning checkmarks and proceeding through a schedule.

Our rapport is also such that he knows I won't ever put a food in his mouth. He knows that my expectations are reasonable for his success.

Please notice that he cheers for himself. Please also notice the self-regulating behaviors he has when eating his preferred food. He is overcoming his own anxiety and working through it.

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401 Houston Street
Nacogdoches, TX
75961

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+19363711536

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