Echolalia and Autism: The Best Way to Get a Child with Autism Speaking
Do you have a child or client with less than five words that you can rely on? Maybe the child has some pop-out words, but you don’t know how to get the child speaking more? Today, I’m going to talk about echolalia and autism, and the main way we can start to get words heard more […]
Teaching Pronouns to Kids with Autism & Avoiding Pronoun Reversal
Many children with autism have a difficult time teaching pronouns to kids with autism. For instance, if you tell a child, “Hang up your backpack” that child may say “Hang up your backpack” while he’s hanging up his own backpack. It gets to be a bad game of who’s on first. So today I’m going […]
Teaching Kids with Autism to Reply to Questions with Yes and No
Many kids with autism need to be taught to answer yes and no, and very few professionals know how to teach this skill. So today, it’s all about yes and no.https://youtu.be/OlufIVItOTkHi, I’m doctor Mary Barbera. Autism mom, board certified behavior analyst, and best-selling author. When my son, Lucas, was two years old, before he was […]
Teaching Actions to Children with Autism
Many professionals and parents struggle with what to teach once a child has dozens or hundreds of single words. So today I’m going to talk about what I recommend next, which is teaching actions and teaching verbs to children with autism.https://youtu.be/loRPV2f4NHo Many professionals and parents jump to carrier phrases as soon as a child can […]
Autism Teaching Strategies for Teaching Higher Language Skills & Keeping Learned Tacts
A common thing that happens when you try to teach children with autism more advanced language skills is that you lose the tacts. Today, I’m going to cover what that means and how to avoid it.https://youtu.be/mkvYpivgxtU What is a tact? Just so we’re on the same page here, a tact is a label of something […]