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Email UpdatesAmyShymansky @ February 6, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Developing Listening Skills in Children with Autism
“To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation”
-Chinese Proverb
Developing effective listening skills is an important step towards building social relationships. In order to interact with others meaningfully we must listen and remember information from [...]
AmyShymansky @ December 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet
For families looking to begin a home-based educational program for their child with Autism getting started is the hardest part! From finding an effective consultant and therapists, to jumping thru insurance hoops or financial burdens. As difficult to start off and financially draining as a home-program can be for families they can be the most [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 26, 2009 # 2 Comments
Quick Strategy: To assist children with autism in learning to answer and ask “why” questionsdevelop your child’s ability to understand cause and effect relationships.
Try using sequencing picture cards initially to assist in developing your child’s understanding of cause and effect relationships.
Purchase or develop sets of 3-5 pictures representing a sequence of events (EX: child running to school because [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Video modeling can be an effective strategy for teaching new skill to children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. For children who have imitation repertoires video modeling can serve as an efficient instructional strategy. Parents can, use video of their child or other children engaging in a desired behavior. Many times video modeling can serve as a quick way to [...]
Jen Woyner M.A. BCBA @ October 14, 2009 # One Comment
“Instruction, defined functionally, produces behavior changes” (p. 43)
Barrett, Beatrice H. (2002) The Technology of Teaching Revisited: A Reader’s Companion to B.F. Skinner’s Book. Concord, MA. Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. http://www.behavior.org/
If the instructor’s actions did not change student behavior, was instruction effective?
Tip: If you are not effectively changing behavior within 3 days of instruction, try changing your method again [...]