Episode 70: How to Use ABA Strategies to Lead...

We spend hours building visual systems for our students and almost no time building them for ourselves. In this episode, we're talking about the irony of being the most scheduled, structured classroom in the building - and having zero systems for how we actually run our own day. ...  Show more

DTT is one of the most well-researched strategies in our toolkit - and we might be leaning on it too hard. In this episode, we're making the case that over-relying on discrete trial teaching can actually work against our students when it comes to using skills in the real world. W ...  Show more

Many SLPs were taught the medical model of working with autistic children where we found the deficit and worked to fill it. However, we know now that autistic children develop differently, and we need to focus on helping them become the most successful version of themselves, n ...

How has the diagnosis, treatment, and understanding of autism changed?

In the United States, an estimated one in thirty-six children has been diagnosed with autism. But missing those early signs is one of the biggest challenges parents face. Even though there is a lot of ...

In this episode I share 5 tips for systems you can use in your classroom. These tips can help you delegate more effectively. In other words, if you are like me and have a hard time giving up responsibility, I’ve got some suggestions for you (and me). The tips will also help you s ...  Show more

As I noted in the last episode it is important that we teach skills that serve the function of the behavior from our functional behavior assessment (FBA).  However, only teaching those skills is wasting a lot of the information that our FBA gained for us.  Based on our ABC data a ...  Show more