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Parenting a toddler or preschooler with autism comes with unique challenges, but it also opens up opportunities for innovative strategies to support their development. One such strategy that has...

Textual behavior is reading! It’s important to note that just because someone is engaging in textual behavior, it does not mean they are understanding what is being read.

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Today we’re going to be talking about picky eating in children with autism! Before we get started we do want to give a disclaimer that if you are dealing with severely picking eating, such as...

Listener Responding (LR) sometimes known as receptive language, requires the listener to respond to another’s verbal behavior.

Here’s an example: if you say “Where are your...

Motivation plays a crucial role in learning and behavior for preschoolers with autism. By using effective reinforcement strategies, parents can encourage desired behaviors and foster positive...

An echoic is what occurs when verbal behavior has point-to-point correspondence with its preceding verbal stimulus (Skinner, 1957). In layman’s terms, it’s a verbal imitation of what...

For nonverbal toddlers with autism, expressing their needs and desires can be challenging, and can sometimes lead to challenging behaviors for parents to manage when they are not understood. Using...

Intraverbal means responding to the spoken (or signed) words of others without repeating exactly what the other person just said, as in a conversation.

For example, one might say to a friend,...

 Tantrums are a common challenge for parents of toddlers, especially for those with autism. These outbursts are often overwhelming and stressful for both you and your child. However, with the...

A tact simply is a label for something.

A tact (a word derived from “contact” with the environment) occurs when you see, smell, taste, hear, or touch something in your environment, and...

 Parenting a toddler or preschooler with autism can be both immensely rewarding and uniquely challenging. Every child on the autism spectrum is wonderfully unique, and so are their needs. As...

The easiest way to remember what a mand is is to think of it as a comMAND from the learner. Its is essentially a request from the child. A learner will mand for an item, activity or information...