Establishing a Morning Routine for School Days
Establishing a morning routine that works for your family is vital to ensuring smooth, stress-free mornings for everyone.
Resources
Free Resource: 50 First Words Tracker
It’s important to have good resources for facilitating effective ABA instruction. This week, we have a free language tracker resource. This document includes 50 first nouns that can be used with early learners with Autism. We include columns for receptive ID, expressive ID, and feature/function/class instruction. Also perfect to be used for tracking progress on the VB-MAPP.
How to Help a Grieving Child
The death of a loved one has a real impact on kids. To get through this tough time, we’ve put together this guide to help a grieving child.
Back to the Classroom: Ways to Help Kids Cope with Increased Anxiety
It is important to be patient and show compassion as children return to the classroom. Learn ways to help kids cope with their anxiety about returning to school.
Free Resource: Feature Function Class Data Sheet
It can be hard to come up with your own feature function class examples in ABA therapy. That’s why we created this resource to go along with our Language Learning Cards, so you can teach kids to identify words associated with the different pictures.
Increasing Independence through Self-Monitoring
Self-monitoring is a research-based strategy to help individuals increase their independence. It also helps improve self-assessment and regulation.
101 Reinforcement Ideas for Students with Autism
It can be difficult to motivate those students that don’t seem to have that drive for learning on their own. This article provides 101 reinforcement ideas for students with autism. We include a variety of ideas from categories including food, activities, sensory, attention, electronics, and toys.
Task Analysis for Getting Dressed and Hygiene
Task analysis is an ABA strategy for teaching children complex tasks such as brushing teeth and washing hands. We include examples for these and other important hygiene and getting dressed tasks. This strategy is perfect for special education classrooms and for parents working with kids in the home.
Free Resource: Task Analysis Sheet
It’s important to have good resources for facilitating effective ABA instruction. This week, we have a free task analysis data sheet. We also provide instructions for utilizing this invaluable resource. If you are not using the task analysis strategy to teach children with Autism complex skills such as brushing teeth, getting dressed, or tying shoes, you are likely seeing sub-optimal progress.