Autism Interventions and Teaching Strategies
When you’re first introduced to the autism field, whether you’re a fresh-faced professional or a confused parent, it’s very easy to become overwhelmed. There are so many different autism models to focus on – how are you supposed to know what to choose? My interviewee, Tracy Vail, is an expert on many different methodologies and will be able to lead you through the autism treatment maze.
Effective Instructional Strategies for Children with Autism and Academics with Dr. Janet Twyman
Teaching real-world skills to children with autism can be very difficult for parents, teachers and even trained behavioral analysts. I, for one, had to teach my son, Lucas, the same and different in 16 different trials. Dr. Janet Twyman is an expert in instructional strategies and shares how reinforcement shaping, critical discrimination, observing and testing helps with effectively teaching academics and real-world skills to kids with autism.
Teaching Self-Care Skills to Children with Autism | Stuck Series Part 4
The fourth area where people get stuck is self care. In this five-part stuck series, I want to talk about the five areas that I see parents and professionals get the most stuck. In Part 1 I talked about assessing language when a child is nonvocal. Part 2 was about teaching receptive language skills, and […]
ABA for Intermediate Learners
There’s a lot of confusion about how to help “high functioning” or almost conversational kids with autism with their language skills. People ask if kids are too high functioning for ABA. Should they pull out? Should they just be included? I’ve had quite a number of people asking me about programs or products to help […]
Conditional Discrimination in Kids with Autism
Conditional discrimination errors are very common in children with autism, especially intermediate learners. When we say conditional discrimination, we mean that a child makes errors. Say you have a paper towel versus toilet paper, they’re very similar. The child makes an error not because they’re not paying attention, but because they don’t have the language […]