Autism

Learn how to use scripting to provide learners with a verbal or written description about a specific skill that serves a model for the learner.

Learn how Pivotal Response Training builds on a learner's initiative and interest to develop key communication, behavior, social and play skills.

Technology-aided instruction and intervention are those in which technology are the central feature of an intervention that supports the goal for the student.

Learn how this intervention can teach students to recognize when negative thoughts are escalating and then use strategies to change their behavior.

Learn how structured play groups are used to help students develop their play and social development skills. Learn how groups are organized.

Learn about how the Picture Exchange Communication System is used to teach learners to improve communication in a social context.

Learn why teaching parents to implement interventions with their child may be useful to increase learning opportunities that lead to acquiring skills.

Learn how typically developing, carefully prepared peers can help learners with autism acquire new social skills, through interaction and modeling.

Learn how to use extinction to reduce interferring behaviors by identifying the function and then withdrawing the reinforcement of the interferring behavior.

Part 1 of a series designed to help evaluation teams conduct best practices assessment of autism, providing information on the mandated rules for evaluation.