Parental Involvement in Therapy for Children with Autism
As parents, it can be scary when your child is first diagnosed or showing signs of autism. Instead of being scared, we should be jumping on the bandwagon to help our children as early as possible with or without a diagnosis and with or without a therapy team. Parental involvement is critical. But…
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Improving Decision-Making Skills for Children with Autism
Decision-making skills for kids with autism can be very challenging considering you can't always be exactly sure that they're picking the choice that they actually want. Usually, kids with autism who have trouble with decision-making, pick the first choice or the last choice and don’t really choose…
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Teaching Techniques: Common Mistakes When Teaching Children with Autism
As behavior analysts, teachers, and even parents, we all make mistakes teaching our children and clients with and without autism. Today we'll be discussing teaching techniques and some of the more common mistakes professionals and parents make when teaching. I know I've made all of these mistakes…
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ABA Therapy: How Many Hours Are Needed for Kids with Autism?
A lot of people get confused when they hear the words intensive ABA therapy. I get questions all the time about how many hours kids should be getting with the BCBA and with a therapist. So today I want to give you some of my thoughts on what intensive ABA therapy entails and what you should be…
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TalkTools: An Approach to Improve Speech Clarity & Feeding Skills
TalkTools is an approach to improve speech clarity and feeding skills as well as to improve things like drooling in children with and without autism.
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Teaching Body Parts to Children with Autism
Teaching children with autism to label and touch their body parts is one of the most important skills to teach. Body parts are important no matter if a child is very young and has no language or if a child is older and has some language. Over my many years working with hundreds of children with…
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Using TAGTeach to Teach Children with Autism
TAGTeach is a methodology that can be used to speed up skill acquisition in children with autism. In today's video blog, I'm discussing how to incorporate this into your child or client's programming to get more effective skill acquisition.
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On an Early Intervention Evaluation Waitlist for Autism? Here’s What You Can Do
A few weeks ago I did a vlog called “What is autism?” and I covered the signs of autism in young children. One of the things I didn't mention on that video blog was that the lengths of most waiting lists are huge and so long. So I wanted to cover today some of the strategies you can use while…
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Increasing Language in Children with Autism Through a Shoebox
As some of you may know, I've been a behavior analyst since 2003 and worked for the Pennsylvania Verbal Behavior Project, which was a statewide grant from 2003 to 2010. When I left the project, I began working in the early intervention field with very young children through a contract with the…
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Should You Be Teaching Children with Autism to Apologize?
I had a question come in last week from Amy who is a participant in our online course and community and she said she had an idea for a future video blog. She said, "Could you address the issue of having or not having kids with autism apologize for their behavior following an aggressive behavior?…
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