Phrases and Abnormal Speech in Children with Autism
Abnormal speech patterns are very common in kids with autism. For example, if you teach a child with limited speech to say phrases like “open door,” they might overgeneralize it and say “open door” even if they want something else opened like a bottle or a box. In this blog post, I will answer a […]
Teaching Safety Skills for Autism | Keeping Kids with Autism Safe
In today’s video blog, I want to talk about teaching safety skills for autism. Safety awareness is a huge concern for both parents and professionals. There are many children, teens, and adults with autism who have the language and/or cognitive functioning of a young child. This makes it harder to teach safety awareness. https://youtu.be/dpVuz4T9dEY The […]
How to Resolve Autism Sleep Issues in Children
Sleep problems are very common in children with autism. With my own son, Lucas, I struggled with getting him to sleep in his own bed through the night for ten years. Using ABA techniques though, I was finally able to establish a step-by-step procedure that resulted in him sleeping through the night consistently in his […]
Table Time and Reinforcement in ABA | How to Increase Reinforcement
You may have heard of floor time for children with autism or signs of autism, but I am actually a big proponent of table time and reinforcement in ABA. Today I’m talking about how to help kids to increase reinforcement so we have happy learners at a table.https://youtu.be/oxMdfwbXbKc?list=PL0_NcGwhzOkjOw2MHT_yIvzYf557kW8lT Every month within our membership portal, we […]
High Functioning Autism: Can the Verbal Behavior Approach Help?
A friend of mine, who is a teacher, recently asked me, “would a kindergarten student who is on the autism spectrum with severe tantrum behaviors, but has strong academic skills, be a good candidate for verbal behavior? We have a child in our building and I’m stumped as to how to help him.” So today […]