I’m celebrating Austism Awareness Month with a few giveaways!!!! This week I’m giving away my newest product: Beyond Eye Contact: Connecting with the Young Pre-Verbal Child with ASD I’m very excited to be sharing this new product with some lucky follower! Check out the product description below and enter via the rafflecopter widget at the bottom […]
Can training parents in play improve communication skills in children with ASD? Can parents become the interventionists? Can parents successfully implement techniques that positively affect communication skills in their children with ASD? These are questions that have been asked for decades. Dr. Stanley Greenspan, developer of the DIR/Floortime Model of therapy intervention, not only believed […]
It’s Tip Tuesday and today I would like to talk to you about an amazing opportunity I had over the summer to participate in an 11 hour professional development course on The Greenspan Floortime Approach. As you may know, Dr. Stanley Greenspan developed the DIR/Floortime approach. And although DIR has been observed to be a positive […]
Article: Increasing Social Interaction Using Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching with Nonverbal School-Age Children with Autism Citation: Franco, J., Davis, B., & Davis, J. (2013). Increasing social interaction using prelinguistic milieu teaching with nonverbal school-age children with autism. American Journal of Speech Language Pathology, 22, 489-502. doi: 10.1044/1058-0360(2012/10-0103) Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect […]
ASHA’s Special Interest Group 12, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, published their most recent Perspectives this October and one of the articles caught my eye. Jane Farrall, a speech language pathologist and consultant in Australia, wrote an an article titled, AAC Apps and ASD: Giving Voice to Good Practice. Although this article is not a research […]
Welcome to my new website! I’m so glad you are here with me on this adventure!!! I have another exciting announcement! Along with my new site, and new look, you will see above that I have a brand new store! At my one year blogiversary, I took all of your feedback into account and I […]
It is not uncommon for pediatricians, parents, educators and yes, even therapists to be confused when it comes a child diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) who exhibits interest in socially interacting with others. Just because a child expresses interest in wanting to interact with others does not mean the child’s diagnosis is incorrect. In […]
Today I’m writing about something one of my ASD kiddos taught me. I had been working with a client who was nonverbal for quiet a while with very little progress despite using every trick of the trade and every fun toy I had up my “speech sleeve”. I had tried EVERY reinforcer known to man […]
Today I’ll be talking about the differences between the Son-Rise program and ABA (applied behavioral analysis). I placed this blog as part of my April ASD series here AFTER introducing one aspect of applied behavior analysis known as DTT (discrete trial training) and discussing Greenspan’s DIR and Solomon’s P.L.A.Y. project so that we have a […]
Following a child’s lead may just the be BEST thing we as SLPs can do for your students with ASD. As previously read in the post I shared about Dr. Greenspan’s DIR and Dr. Solomon’s P.L.A.Y. Project, following a child’s lead is one of the fundamental principles of both programs. So if I’ve already talked […]
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