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Email UpdatesAmyShymansky @ 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 @ December 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Developing natural social conversation skills in children with Autism can be a complex task. Successful conversation skills build relationships and are critical to successful social skills. Once a learner is able to ask questions and make statements in conversation more advanced skills such as the ability to initiate a conversation based of the interest of others, maintaining [...]
AmyShymansky @ November 18, 2009 # 2 Comments
Decreasing Problematic Behavior
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AmyShymansky @ October 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet
When developing programming for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) parents and professionals should consider spending time on developing core characteristics or skill deficits of the disability. When improvements are made on core characteristics of a disability, the end result is a less affected child.
In many children with ASD, joint attention is a major skill [...]
AmyShymansky @ October 27, 2009 # One Comment
Perspective-Taking Skills
The ability to understand and predict how other people are thinking or feeling is a very complex and abstract skill. Teaching perspective-taking skills to children with autism is a necessary piece of developing appropriate social skills.
Quick Strategy: To assist in teaching perspective-taking skills use visuals of drawings or pictures of people in social scenarios, draw [...]