The Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (2008), commonly referred to as the VB-MAPP, is based on the work of B.F. Skinner (1957) who wrote the book entitled Verbal Behavior. The VB-MAPP brings together the procedures and teaching methodology of ABA and B.F. Skinner’s analysis of verbal behavior in an effort to provide a… Read More Assessing Your Students and Identifying Objectives Using The Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program
Tools To Encourage Play In Children With Autism
A child’s ability to initiate and sustain play interactions with peers not only promotes their engagement and learning, but also serves as a precursor for their participation in future educational environments. Children with autism often display restricted play skills, preventing them from successfully participating in inclusive environments. Research Play gives children the opportunity… Read More Tools To Encourage Play In Children With Autism
Motivation: The Key Ingredient To Producing Effective Learning
Steve Ward’s book What You Need to Know about Motivation and Teaching Games: An in Depth Analysis focuses on the concept of incorporating motivation while teaching children, especially when teaching them various play activities. Research Whether or not a person is motivated, largely determines how well that person will perform on a task. Steve… Read More Motivation: The Key Ingredient To Producing Effective Learning
Evidenced-Based Practices: The Use of Applications on the IPAD To Teach Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Numerous applications, frequently just called apps, have been developed to support teaching new behavior and to increase existing behaviors. They are being used in classrooms and homes to produce socially significant benefits to students with autism. Listed below are some lists of Video Modeling applications that are available to teach children with ASD. Research… Read More Evidenced-Based Practices: The Use of Applications on the IPAD To Teach Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Verbal Behavior Approach: Using Motivation And Reinforcement
The goal of any good ABA/VB program is to identify the child’s naturally occurring motivation, capture it, and use it to help him learn. In doing so, we can begin to add new, more typical or appropriate desires to his list of motivating items while making his less appropriate motivators less important to him. … Read More Verbal Behavior Approach: Using Motivation And Reinforcement
Using Reinforcement to Engage Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Since motivation is such a challenging problem in the treatment of autism and related pervasive developmental disorders, educators use positive reinforcement to help their students understand what behaviors to continue exhibiting. If an item is delivered immediately following a response, and that response increases in the future, we can re- fer to the reward as… Read More Using Reinforcement to Engage Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Using Naturalistic Interventions to Engage Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Naturalistic Interventions are a collection of practices that include environmental arrangement, interaction tech- niques, and behavioral strategies. These practices are designed to encourage specific target behaviors based on insights into the learner’s interests, and also, to provide responses that build more elaborate learner behaviors that are naturally reinforcing and appropriate to the interaction. Research… Read More Using Naturalistic Interventions to Engage Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
