Autism and Language Development: My #1 Technique to Get ANY Child Talking More!
My #1 Technique to Get ANY Child Talking More!My weekly video blogs are usually for autism professionals and parents, but I have a little secret on autism and language development. All the techniques I talk about work great for any child even a child without disabilities. You see all of the strategies I recommend are […]
Happy 21st Birthday Lucas and 5 Important Autism Lessons We Learned on Our Journey (so Far)!
In celebration of Lucas’ 21st birthday this week, in this video blog, I’m going to share 5 lessons I’ve learned that might help you! A lot of these lessons are in Chapter 12 of my best-selling book, The Verbal Behavior Approach which was published a decade ago, sold more than 50,000 copies and is now […]
Expanding Expressive Language: What’s Wrong with the Goal for Timmy to Talk In 4-Word Utterances?
In last week’s video blog, I discussed a few ABA strategies to develop first sounds and words in children with autism. Today I’m going to discuss expanding expressive language carefully in children who are speaking in 1 or 2-word utterances where we have echoic control meaning if we say “say ball” the child will say […]
Ruling Out Autism Medical Problems…Easier Said than Done!
As you probably know, I’m both a mom to an adult son with autism as well as a BCBA. But what you may not know is that I’m also a Registered Nurse. I often remind people that medical issues can cause some behaviors in children and adults with autism. And you cannot treat medical issues […]
Autism and Happiness: Programming for Happiness in Clients with Autism
Several years ago, I attended a keynote presentation with Behavior Analyst, Dr. Dennis Reid. He spoke about the importance of programming for (and measuring) autism and happiness in our children and clients.https://youtu.be/qSPvtOo7vaQ Daily Choices During one of the activities during the keynote, Dr. Reid had the audience members spend 3 minutes writing down every choice […]