How to Advocate and Become a Better Advocate for Children with Autism
Advocating for children with autism is sometimes a rough road for parents and professionals. So today, I'm going to give you 5 steps both parents and professionals can take to advocate more effectively for kids with autism.
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Autism Behavioral Strategies: FBA vs. FA
Most funding sources require an FBA, a Functional Behavior Assessment, before treatment for autism can be started and sometimes at regular intervals, especially if new problem behaviors occur. There's also a lot of confusion between an FBA and an FA, a Functional Analysis. Last week I got an email…
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Teaching Social Skills to Children with Autism – 3 Mistakes to Avoid
Social skill deficits are one of the most common deficits in kids with autism. In fact, since it's one of the signs of autism, it almost always shows up in kids with autism. And I found that parents and professionals make 3 common mistakes when it comes to social skill instruction. So today I want…
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Using Transfer Procedures to Teach Children with Autism
Are you using transfer procedures to teach children with autism? If you're not, you definitely want to tune in for this week's video blog where I am going to be talking about a paper that was published by myself and Dr. Rick Kubina, my BCBA mentor, in 2005 called “Using Transfer Procedures to Teach…
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Treating Autism: Why My Verbal Behavior Approach is Different & Better
I recently did a podcast on the 10 ways that I believe my verbal behavior approach for treating autism is different and better for kids with autism. So today, I want to give you the top three ways that I believe my approach is unique and might be able to help you, help your children or clients do…
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How to Reduce Problem Behaviors | Autism Intervention for Problem Behaviors
Both autism professionals and parents report that their number one challenge by far, hands down, is the reduction of problem behaviors. So in today's video blog, I am pulling out a short excerpt from podcast number six which is all about reducing problem behaviors.
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What is Prompt Dependency in Children with Autism?
I remember when my son Lucas was little, some psychologists wrote in the report that he was very prompt dependent. Even back then before I was a behavior analyst, that comment, he's prompt dependent, made me angry. Today's I'm talking all about prompt dependency and whether we should blame the…
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What is Scrolling in Children with Autism? | Language Error Correction
If you're a parent or professional in the autism world, chances are good that you've seen scrolling and you may have seen it every day. But you may not have known what it is or what to do about it. So, today I'm covering scrolling and how to help a child who is exhibiting this behavior.
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What is the Verbal Behavior Approach in Comparison to ABA?
I didn't create the Verbal Behavior Approach, I followed other professionals in the field, namely, Mark Sundberg, Dr. Jack Michael, Dr. Vincent Carbone and many others who've influenced my ideas about ABA and the Verbal Behavior Approach. So today I'm talking about the differences between a…
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Using Sensory Rooms: How Beneficial Are Autism Sensory Rooms?
Kids with autism tend to have sensory issues, so many schools, residential placements, and even other places like hospitals are building autism sensory rooms. In this blog, I'm talking about sensory rooms for kids with autism.
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