These clips may or may not be suitable for your child if they have autism. Every child is unique, but these videos are meant to offer ideas on how to work with your child with autism on common target areas. Also check out the "behavior" link on the previous page if you are having behavior difficulty with your child with autism.

Reinforcement-

Click here for the Slides: 123s and Dos and Don'ts of Reinforcement.pdf

For Spanish version click on video below:

Click here for the Spanish Slides: 123s and Dos and Don'ts of Reinforcement.pdf

Increasing Language- What is routine, feels good for people with autism. While teaching language, we should all keep in mind that people with autism learn through patterns. If we can teach ways for them to identify a pattern and then teach variations of that pattern, we can make communication and language more reinforcing. Here are some exercises to create those patterns and fill in those language gaps:

1. I do/You do/ We do: I DO YOU DO WE DO.pdf

2. Past/Present/Future:PAST PRESENT FUTURE- PDF.pdf

Past Present Future Video

3. Conversation initiation: SHAPE TALK-PDF-1.pdf

Shape Talk video

4. Understanding concept of time: TIME UNBOXED.pdf

5. Answering to comments made by others: QUESTIONER DD- PDF.pdf

6. Pronouns (and I am well aware that as a society these things are sensitive to some and there are different pronouns that people want to be identified as, but we are doing our best here to just build language.): HE/SHE/THEY PDF

HE/SHE/THEY video

Teaching other skills:

1. Teaching Observational Learning to Students with Autism- Observational Learning is one of THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILLS for people with autism to learn, because after they learn it they can start picking up communication, language and social skills that are not directly taught. This is a great skill to teach young!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fqcASCAPGI

2. Teaching Reading Comprehension to people with autism is sometimes a difficult task. Students with autism oftentimes have difficulty with comprehension and inference and can be over prompted to answers by adults. These videos will take you through the beginning stages of teaching reading comprehension so students with autism who have good memorization skills:

Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Autism Part 1.

Teaching Reading to Students with Autism part 2:

3. Sometimes we have to start with ready to learn skills so that our children can learn to sit and attend. This video goes over how to work with behavioral momentum to get your child to sit and attend to a task:

Getting your child to sit to be "ready to learn"

My Kid Won’t Sit Still: My Kid Just Doesn’t Want to Do it: My Kid Just Wants to Play Written .pdf

4. Everyone recommends using some sort of schedule when working with a child, but which one is right for you and your child? If you don't choose the right one for you, they can make things more complicated. This video is a quick video that goes over somethings to look for when picking a schedule that fits your family when teaching:

Sometimes schedules can create more problems

5. Gaining Compliance-

gaining compliance .pdf

6. Zooming Keeping Child Motivated

https://youtu.be/EVRA1gU4SAI