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 […]
Why Teaching Carrier Phrases is a Bad Idea
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.https://youtu.be/tWR7rR5zDscI’ve never done a full blog on carrier phrases, but my blog on teaching Timmy to talk in four word utterances where I talk a […]
Autism and Screen Time: Why I Wouldn’t Stop Screen Time
I recently got a question from a speech pathologist on one of my private Facebook groups about autism and screen time. She asked how she could support a family in reducing or eliminating screen time for their two-year-old with autism. They were watching up to four hours of TV a day.Before I get into my […]
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 […]
Teaching Greetings to Children with Autism
In the past, I evaluated a 4-year-old boy named Bobby. When I said Hi Bobby, he replied Hi Bobby. My son, Lucas, had similar issues when he was younger, so I learned strategies to help him overcome this problem well before I became a Behavior Analyst. As a BCBA, I now run into greeting problems […]