<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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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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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.
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...
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...
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...
