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Title: SETTING YOUR CHILD UP FOR SUCCESS:


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  • SETTING YOUR CHILD UP FOR SUCCESS
  • Strategies for Starting Off the School Year for a
    Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Flo Bosch
  • Coordinator, PreK-12 Adapted Curriculum
  • Becky Lamont
  • Program Manager, Applied Behavior Analysis
  • ABA Enhanced Autism ServicesFairfax County
    Public Schools

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TOPICS
  • Establishing Routines
  • Adaptive/Self-Help Skills
  • Working Towards Independence
  • Reinforce Learning
  • Establishing Study Skills
  • Collaborating with School Staff

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Establishing Routines
  • Morning
  • Afternoon
  • Evening/Bedtime
  • Weekends

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Establishing Routines
  • Predictable
  • Set the expectation
  • Part of the family
  • Understand the environment
  • Routines..
  • Flexibility!

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Schedules
  • Visually organize the childs day
  • (who, what, where, when)
  • Teach child how to use it
  • Notify of changes in the schedule
  • Individual or family schedule
  • Give choice if appropriate

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Schedules
Objects Pictures Words
Hand-written Drawings Computer-made Checklist Pos
t-it notes
Half day Whole day Weekly First-then
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Set a Routine
  • Morning
  • Wake up
  • Wash face
  • Brush teeth
  • Comb hair
  • Get dressed
  • Eat breakfast
  • Shoes on
  • Backpack on
  • Bus

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Set a Routine
  • Evening/ Bedtime
  • Bath
  • Brush Teeth
  • Pajamas
  • Read a book
  • Lights out
  • Afternoon
  • Get off of bus
  • Unpack back pack
  • Eat snack
  • Structured play or work

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Importance of Adaptive/Self-Help Skills
  • Eating
  • Toileting
  • Hand washing
  • Brushing Teeth
  • Bathing Showering
  • Dressing and Undressing
  • Grooming

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Importance of Adaptive/Self-Help Skills
  • Doing Chores
  • Making the bed
  • Cleaning the room
  • Setting the table
  • Hanging up their clothes
  • Preparing snacks/meals

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Working Towards Independence
  • Begin with preschool aged students, work on
    through adulthood
  • Requires teaching
  • Break skills down
  • Continue emphasis on language development
  • Enhances quality of life for individual with
    special needs
  • Self Advocacy
  • Lessens burden on family members
  • Live more fulfilling life

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1st-2nd Grades
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Reinforcing Learning
  • Behavior
  • Establish reinforcers
  • Contingency
  • Behavior plans and consistency
  • Reinforce the appropriate behavior
  • Replacement behavior
  • Clearly defined limits
  • Engaged in activities vs. down time

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Reinforcing Learning
  • Learning to Learn Skills
  • Attending
  • Looking at the speaker
  • Looking at the materials
  • Quiet
  • Readiness
  • Getting feedback
  • Staying in the chair
  • Engaged in the task
  • Waiting

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Reinforcing Learning
  • Language
  • -Requesting
  • -Labeling
  • -Conversation
  • -Receptive Instructions and Identification
  • Look for ways to generalize

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Reinforcing Learning
  • Social Skills
  • Practice working on appropriate skills
  • Include appropriate toy play, object use, and
    games
  • Pre teach in smaller setting of school and home
    first
  • Generalize skills out in community settings

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Reinforcing Learning
  • Cont
  • Matching
  • Sorting
  • Non-verbal imitation
  • Receptive identification
  • Academics (i.e. Math, Reading, etc)

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Establishing Good Study Skills
  • Established routines to set the expectation
  • Begin at a young age and continue developing
  • Designated areas in home (desk, table)
  • Separating work vs. play

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Establishing Good Study Skills
  • Repetition and multiple opportunities for
    practice of targets
  • Begin with basic tasks at first
  • Increase length of time
  • Decrease amount of assistance and prompting
  • Increase difficulty
  • Move towards independence

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Collaborate with School Staff
  • Re-Organization of DSS
  • Key players on your childs team
  • Who to access

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Collaborate with School Staff
  • Best ways to communicate between home and school
  • Daily notes
  • Communication log
  • Let school know new information
  • Celebrate successes!
  • Ways to help provide information
  • Reinforcement assessment form
  • Student Profile Parent form

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QUESTIONS?
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