It’s very important that your child or client is able use their verbal language skills as much as possible. Dr. Mary Barbera shares simple techniques to encourage these skills, along with practical advice and over two decades of Behavior Analyst wisdom.
Many children with autism spectrum disorder struggle with and have poor eye contact. Both parents and professionals often wonder if we should focus on teaching eye contact, and, if so, how to teach this important nonverbal skill. Today I'm going to get on my soapbox about autism and eye contact.
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Many parents of young children with autism dream of the day when they can have full conversations with their children. But getting children who are not talking much or at all to become conversational is a big mystery for most parents and professionals. So, today I’m going to break it down and talk about how to teach communication skills for kids with autism.</span>
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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 frequently and to develop the ability for the child to echo our words and to expand their language even further.
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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 to talk about my procedures for teaching pronouns.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the autism world, there seems to be a big push to teaching colors to kids with autism. So, today I'm going to talk about when and how to teach colors to a child with autism, and what autism colors to teach first.
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For those of you who know me well, you know that I’m not a fan of teaching carrier phrases to kids with autism. So today, I’m going to tell you why.
