Autism

The Five Point Scale is a visual tool designed to help students identify, understand, and regulate emotions, behaviors and abstract concepts. By using a structured scale, students can learn to recognize their emotional state and apply coping strategies to self-regulate. When to Use: To Support

For longer activities, earned tokens can provide a tangible representation of completing smaller components within the task. The tokens are often traded for a larger reinforcer at the completion of the task.

This video shows one educator sharing how she uses the strategy of recasting to model articulation, grammar, and vocabulary. Recasting is repeating what a student says with an expansion as a means of giving implicit and direct feedback. It promotes using complete and grammatically correct sentences

Reinforcement is an evidence-based practice designed to increase behaviors. Implementing this practice reinforces the connection between the desired behavior and the reward, increasing the likelihood of future successes.