Putting the Pieces Together

MNPS Autism Team

Supporting Individual’s with Autism in the Home

Autism Spectrum Disorder a complex developmental disability which affects

the physiology, biology, and neurology of the brain.

Inappropriate Behavior Responses

• Non-compliance • Tantrum• Aggression• Self-Stimulatory• Inappropriate Verbal

Commenting • Property Destruction • Inappropriate touching

• Bullying • Inappropriate • Self- Injury • Elopement/Leaving area• Off-Task • Compulsive/ Impulsivity• Withdrawal

Providing Structure

•Visual Strategies: are things that we see that enhance communication.

-Helps to reduce anxiety-Helps support understanding

Timers

www.timetimers.com

www.online-stopwatch.com

PICTURE SCHEDULES

Work First/Then Break Sit at table Eat dinner All done /Break

John’s Schedule Get shirt Put on Get Pants Put on Get socks and shoes Put on All Done

WRITTEN SCHEDULESGet pencil

Write name

Math

All Done

Visual Schedules

Visual Cues

Calendars

Reinforcement • Used to increase behaviors you want to see

again. • Should be immediate when teaching new

behaviors. • Increase delay in reinforcement as behaviors are

acquired. • The individual should be aware of what they are

working for. • Choice Boards • First/Then Boards• Token Boards

Choice Boards

Picture Resources •Mrsriley.com•Google Images • Boardmaker • Picture Card Maker- iPhone

First/Then Boards

Token Boards

Tokens are used to teach delayed reinforcement. The provide a concrete visual.• Give token immediately following a

behavior or/• Give token after a specified amount of

time with absence of the target behavior.

Token Board Example

Token Board Examples

Structured Work Systems• Teach independence skills • Provide concrete visual directives, embedded in

task• Clear beginning and end• Left to Right

www.TEACCH.com

Example:

Folder 1 Folder 2 Break Folder 3All done

Work Folder Systems

Embed visual instructions inside the folders

Visual Schedule

Index card system

Autism Team Ada Winford, Lead Teacher

ada.winford@mnps.org -----------------------------------

Lynnette White Hofmeister, Behavior Analyst BCBAlynnette.white@mnps.org

--------------------------------------Adrienne Flannery-Reilly, Behavior Analyst BCBA

adrienne.coscia@mnps.org --------------------------------------

Becky Sain, Exceptional Educator becky.brewster-sain@mnps.org

--------------------------------------Gladys Henry, SLP

gladys.henry@mnps.org---------------------------------------

Angela Vaughan, Exceptional Educator angela.vaughan@mnps.org

Thank you!

“If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn”

~ O. Ivar Lovass