Brushing Hair

We all know that our learner must acquire appropriate language skills in order to make their needs and wants known appropriately and free of problem behavior. It is also equally important that our learners acquire the skills required for maintaining their appearance. Here is a basic sequence for teaching your learner how brush their hair...

Auditory Comprehension

The following program is a systematic approach  to teaching WH discriomination. It is also a good way to facilitate generalization of previously acquired decriptive language and recall.

Auditory Comprehension

The following represents a systematic increase in complexity per sentence in order to teach Learner to remember specific information and answer WH questions about that information.

Calendar Recall

Calendar Recall

Previously we wrote about the Real World Language program to teach recall skills. This procedure should continue to expand recall skills...

Be the Teacher!

Sometimes our children want to tell us what to do! This is a good way to have fun with our children and have them practice  a number of skills at the same time...

The Gift of Time

Seven years ago, when I was looking for a preschool for my daughter, I attended a Preschool Showcase at the local library. I was amazed by all the directors that spoke about their reading and math curriculums, enrichment programs, and computers for the 3 year olds. All I could think of was, “What happened to a sand table, some fingerpaint and a box of crayons?” Finally, one director began her presentation by reading the following poem...

ABA Meets Speech Therapy… It was Love at First SD

“I don’t believe in ABA”

“ABA makes them like robots”

“ABA doesn’t work. I’ve done it before, I know!”

“Why would I do ABA when I’m here to do speech therapy?”

Over the past seven years I have been on a professional journey.  It began with ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) and then speech therapy.  While on this journey a wonderful thing happened, a beautiful relationship, the marriage of “Speech” and “ABA.” All I have to say is “Congratulations!” to the speech therapists that DO use behavior therapy throughout their session with children with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). 

 OK, so let’s get started…  Let me fill you in on how this rather “secret” relationship works and why.  My hope is that it will open up your eyes to a better way to provide speech therapy to children with ASD...

Real World Language

With the holidays upon us there will most likely be many opportunities for our children to go and see places and things that they do not experience every day. The novelty of these events may present good opportunities to practice recalling and retelling. The following procedure can be implemented as often as you would like.

Real World Language

Goal of the Real World Language Program
The purpose of this program is to help your child generalize current skills as well as previously acquired skills outside of therapy and to recall and retell events in the order they occurred immediately following the trip as well as after a time delay...