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Verbal Behavior Targets
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This reference book is a vital resource for anyone teaching a student with language delays, especially the child diagnosed with autism. The included word lists, phrases, sentences and questions help to develop the building blocks of functional communication. Comprised of over 5,000 language targets, the book employs a variety of additional skill sets to track language goals. The book is organized into categories for quick reference and encompasses the unique concepts, words, word combinations and mands (requests),that are essential to early language intervention. Diana Luckevich has produced an indispensable tool for teachers, professionals and parents alike. While Verbal Behavior Targets specifically focuses on supporting the child with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), it is also geared toward instruction for children with a variety of language delays, as well as for introducing early word skills to typical learners.
This book includes word lists and word combinations, categorized by word families: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, verbs plus nouns, nouns plus nouns, fill-in-the-blanks, verb tenses, receptive instruction, categories, features, functions and topics for conversation.
This book is an accessible tool for ESL learners, children with Down syndrome, autism, language delays and developmental disabilities. It provides common, functional and relevant language goals for typical children who are just learning word skills. There are additional spaces and worksheets for teachers and parents to customize and track language for individual children.
“This book is a critical component for both parents and teachers seeking to provide a language based program for the ASD student. The information presented addresses language in all areas at all levels and enables the user to follow the necessary steps to ensure the best possible outcomes!” --Lisa Squadere-Watson, Parent and Executive Director of Project LINK
“This handy book is an indispensible resource for language programs of all kinds, ABA abd VB-ABA programs especially but others as well. The learning targets are well thought out and comprehensive. They save a great deal of time and can contribute greatly in the construction of a consistent, well thought out educational plan. I've been recommending this book to all of my teachers and familes.” --Tyler Fovel, Strategic Alternatives, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Author of The ABA Program Companion |
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$24.95 USD
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# DRL556 |
It’s Time for School!
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Building Quality Educational Programs for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
This book establishes the advantages of a quality setting for the ASD student. This book covers how to establish an ABA Classroom, comprehensive training, consultations, evaluations, and one-to-one as well as group instruction. It addresses the importance of the quality of service at ALL levels, from school districts and supervisors, to teachers and bus drivers, to ensure a strong structure to each child's school experience.
The book explains how to determine and optimize the best school placement for children with ASD. It explores increasing the receptiveness to ABA in the classroom setting and addresses the need for ongoing training for all staffing. There is a heavy emphasis throughout on keeping accurate data and the authors provide several checklists and a how-to primer for easy implementation. Also emphasized is the importance of the functionality of a behavioral assessment.
This is a book that impacts and enhances every classroom for the child diagnosed with autism and is recommended reading for parents, teachers and professionals alike.
Soft Cover, 296 pages, c. 2008 |
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$39.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9755855-3-1
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# DRL557 |
Sense and Nonsense in the Behavioral Treatment of Autism
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It Has to Be Said
A renowned team of professionals sift the sense from the nonsense in assessing the approaches to the treatment of autism. In a field exploding with alternative treatments, choosing the best course of action for the child with autism can be a daunting task. The authors offer compelling practical evidence of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) as the most reliable approach to education, and provide a much needed antidote to other treatments lacking empirical data.
The editors begin by providing an overview of ABA, debunking common myths and describing its origins in the Lovaas method and UCLA's Young Autism Project, which first demonstrated what children could accomplish under controlled conditions. They show how Discrete Trial Teaching-individualized learning strategies-has evolved, and identify the pros and cons of specific autism treatments. They define their own mission as protecting the integrity of behavioral intervention for children.
This book surveys complementary and alternative medical strategies as well, stressing the need for parents to cast a critical eye before choosing new therapies or moving from one mode of therapy to another. The editors maintain that only through extensive field testing and careful scientific analysis is it possible to distinguish treatments that can be expected to produce significant changes. They encourage parents to look at treatment that has been scientifically investigated and subjected to independent verification.
Written in expert yet accessible language, this is an ideal resource for parents navigating through the maze of current ASD therapies.
Topics covered include: the Origin of ABA; ABA as a Scientific Method; Alternative Treatments of ABA: What is the Science?; Home vs. School: Which Side are you On?; ASD and the IEP; How Realistic is the Aim for "Recovery?"; Sense and Nonsense about Inclusion; and the Road Map to Successful Integration.
Soft Cover, 288 pages |
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$39.95 USD
ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-9755859-2-4
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# DRL111 |
How to Compromise With Your School District Without Compromising Your Child: A Field Guide for Getting Effective Services For Children With Special Needs
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As seen on NBC’s Today Show as part of a weeklong special, Autism: The Hidden Epidemic. The interview focused on his book, How To Compromise With Your School District Without Compromising Your Child and the practical strategies that parents can employ to secure effective educational programming without resorting to legal action against the school district.
From a lawyer who has dedicated his practice to helping families get an appropriate education for their child with autism, comes the guide that every parent needs. Helping parents navigate the confusing and complex world of educational bureaucracies for children with special needs, this field guide expertly takes you through how to advocate for your child's education. By providing inside infomation on how to prepare for an IEP meeting, what to do when your child doesn't get the services their therapist recommends, and how to avoid due process, parents will feel reassured that they are being empowered with all of the tools they need to get their child the education and services they need and deserve. The practical and straighforward approaches presented in this must have guide are not only applicable to children with autism spectrum disorders, but to children with any disability.
Soft Cover, 140 pages, c. 2004 |
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$24.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9665266-8-4
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# DRL030 |
A Work In Progress: Behavior: Management Strategies and a Curriculum for Intensive Behavioral Treatment of Autism
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“The book seeks to ‘provide a road map and enough detailed examples that people who work with autistic children might develop a good understanding of the [behavioral] teaching process.’ . . . Several aspects of content and style make A Work in Progress a particularly compelling source for parent-professional partnerships. First, while the approach is clearly behavioral, Leaf and McEachin emphasize the value of an interdisciplinary approach and the importance of collaboration. Moreover, the clarity and pro-active style with which this manual is written invites its accessibility to a variety of readers who may be a part of the child’s team at one level or another (e.g., teachers, therapists, and administrators as well as behavior analysts and parents). The authors take great care to address common misconceptions about intensive behavioral intervention by offering accurate information and examples in a non-inflammatory style.”—CT FEAT Newsletter
“Budget-crunched school districts say that they cannot afford the immediate costs of such programs. That's where the likes of Ron Leaf come in with the idea of teaching teachers to apply ABA principles in a classroom setting. Leaf worked with Lovaas at UCLA in the 1970s. Now, he and psychologist John McEachin, PhD, who also worked with Lovaas, run a company called Autism Partnership, which provides in-home ABA therapy, but also works with more than 25 school districts to train teachers and administrators in ABA theory and techniques. Ideally, Leaf says, children should receive ABA therapy both at home and in school, where they can learn skills in a more natural setting and with more exposure to social situations.”—APA Online
A Work In Progress is a two part manual that serves as a guide for any parent or professional working with Autistic children. The ABA based behavioral intervention strategies and the detailed curriculum focus on facilitating the child¹s development and helping him or her to achieve the highest level of independence and quality of life possible. The book has served as a launching pad for many parents in the beginning stages of diagnosis and has been used as the cornerstone of countless intervention programs, meeting with enormous success.
The first half of the book, entitled Behavioral Management and Teaching Strategies with Autistic Children, gives parents insights and methods for dealing with difficult behaviors and self-stimulation, aiding in the management and reduction of disruptive behavior. These beginning chapters also offer guidelines on how to address and manage sleep problems, toileting issues, eating problems, as well as how to incorporate social skills and playskills.
The second half of the book is a detailed curriculum entitled, Autism Partnership Curriculum for Discrete Trial Teaching with Autistic Children. This is a complete guide that provides step-by-step instructions as well as creative ideas on how to make learning a natural progression. Emphasis is placed on learning in different settings, the importance of learning age-appropriate skills, and creating a home program that emphasizes the joy of learning.
Soft Cover, 400 pages, c. 1999 |
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$42.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9665266-0-8
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# DRL052 |
Social Skills Solutions
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One of the first books in the field of ABA to highlight the importance of teaching social skills to children with autism, this manual is a comprehensive guide for professionals and parents to evaluate, select, and teach specific skills using meaningful, fun, and practical activities. From eye contact, greetings, and simple conversation to sustaining play on the playground and learning how to read non-verbal signals, the authors provide reliable strategies and techniques for promoting social success in every environment—school lunchrooms, everyday community outings, and most important, interaction with family and siblings.
“As an educational consultant (and the mother of a child with autism), this is the book that I refer other parents to when they are looking for a good resource to teach social skills. If you don’t know where to start with social skills, start here. You won’t be disappointed!”—Reader review, from Amazon.com
“[This manual] is a module for beginning with basic skills and building or ‘scaffolding’ age-appropriate social skills. . . . The authors have developed an extensive social skills checklist to offer a benchmark from which to start and continue to measure the skills needed at all 3 levels within each module. The checklist also measures each skill in an individual, group, and natural setting. Additional topics include: creating a program; collecting data; using visuals; giving feedback; utilizing peers; inclusion; and the role of the parent. The book also contains extensive appendices with forms, worksheets, visuals, a glossary, and a resource section.”—Autism Society of North Carolina
This hands-on manual provides instruction on how to build a social skills program and presents effective methods for teaching specific goals. Based on the author's years of experience teaching social skills, this book addresses issues and skills that are often overlooked in other manuals. There is a comprehensive checklist to be used as an assessment of skills and as a method of creating goals for individual students. There are concrete strategies broken down into simple steps for using visuals, video modeling, peer play and natural occurring situations to facilitate social skills learning. Reproducible worksheets to reinforce these skills are also included for easy implementation. This great new resource will help parents and professionals get started teaching social skills right away!
Soft Cover, 211 pages, c. 2002 |
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$29.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-9665266-9-1
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# DRL230 |
Un Trabajo En Progreso
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This Spanish translation of A Work In Progress is a comprehensive guide for any parent or professional working with Autistic children. Parents of newly diagnosed children and professionals looking for a concrete curriculum will find this book to be an invaluable resource. The two-part manual presents ABA-based behavioral intervention strategies along with a detailed curriculum that contains 54 clear, step-by-step exercises. The first half of the book, entitled Behavioral Strategies For Teaching Improving Behavior of Autistic Children, gives parents practical, how-to information on setting up an ABA program and dealing with difficult behaviors. Topics covered include: teaching formats, stages of therapy, evaluation, reinforcement, working with older children, disruptive behaviors, behavior problems, self-stimulatory behaviors, sleep problems, toilet training, eating problems, as well as play and social skills. The second part of the book is a detailed curriculum titled Autism Partnership Curriculum for Discrete Trial Teaching with Autistic Children. This is a complete curriculum that provides actual lessons with step-by-step instructions as well as creative ideas on how to make learning a natural progression. The curriculum covers the following areas: block imitation, motor skills, play, receptive labels, expressive labeling, emotions, functions, categories, prepositions, same vs. different, verb tenses, sequencing, peer interaction, cause and effect, along with many others. Emphasis is placed on learning in different settings, the importance of acquiring age appropriate skills and creating a home program that emphasizes the joy of learning. In addition, there are seven appendices covering Curriculum Assessment, Daily Data Summary, Discrete Trial Data, Overview of Programs, Performance Evaluation, Program Description and Tracking Forms. These charts and lists are invaluable tools for keeping accurate data. This book is a wonderful resource for anyone who is facilitating a child’s development and is looking to help him or her achieve the highest level of independence and quality of life possible. John McEachin, Ed. & Ron Leaf, Ed. |
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$42.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9755859-1-7
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# DRL211 |
The ABA Program Companion: Organizing Quality Programs for Children with Autism and PDD, with supplemental CD-Rom
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“This book integrates important theory and concepts from ABA into powerful, practical, programming. It comes with a CD-ROM, titled "The Consultant’s Companion," which helps organize and manage children’s individualized curriculum goals.”—Center for Human Development, Beaumont Hospitals
“This new manual and CD is geared towards helping the reader integrate important theories and concepts from ABA into powerful, practical and comprehensive educational programming, from assessment through program methodology and evaluation of results. Topic summaries, key concepts, question lists and references are found throughout the manual, along with reproducible data forms in order to organize and expedite program development. The book and CD were designed specifically as a resource for special educators, parents, and program coordinators in various stages of organizing and implementing their ABA programs. Through clear language, illustrations, tables and real-life examples, the topics covered include basic ABA concepts; teaching formats; the principles, merits and clinical applications of discrete trials; incidental teaching; teaching language and social skills; inclusion; curriculum planning and evaluation, among many others.”—Learn4Good
This excellent new manual and CD is geared towards helping the reader integrate important theories and concepts from ABA into powerful, practical and comprehensive educational programming, from assessment through program methodology and evaluation of results. Topic summaries, key concepts, question lists and references are found throughout the manual, along with reproducible data forms in order to organize and expedite program development.
The book and CD were designed specifically as a resource for special educators, parents, and program coordinators in various stages of organizing and implementing their ABA programs. Through clear language, illustrations, tables and real-life examples, the topics covered include basic ABA concepts; teaching formats; the principles, merits and clinical applications of discrete trials; incidental teaching; teaching language and social skills; inclusion; curriculum planning and evaluation, among many others.
The included CD-Rom, titled The Consultant’s Companion, allows you to select, organize and manage curriculum goals for individual students. Based on the curriculum described in A Work In Progress, this software features over 500 goals in 54 areas, allowing users to easily choose goals, maintain updated program lists and track mastered skills. Users can generate reports of present and mastered curriculum with the click of a button and create goal databases for any number of students. Easily learned and intuitive to use, this program helps keep the educational team organized and on-track.
Soft Cover with CD-Rom, 208 pages, by J. Tyler Fovel, M.A., BCBA |
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$42.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9665266-7-7
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# DRL165 |
Defying Autism: Keeping Your Sanity and Taking Control
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“There is a genre of books typically offered to parents of children newly diagnosed with autism—a genre that may be called ‘coping books.’ These works typically offer much hand-holding and sympathy, very little concrete help. Lockshin, Gillis and Romanczyk have written something much richer than that. In clear, engaging language the authors offer discussions and strategies that will help parents identify the best practices in autism treatment; will enable them to set up, monitor, and modify an intervention program for their child; and will assist them not only in addressing the needs of the child with autism, but of all family members, including siblings. Rather than simply dwelling on how hard and stressful it is to "deal with autism" this work brims with specific strategies, techniques, explanations and tools, all of which can truly empower and comfort parents, and truly help their children.”—Catherine Maurice, Author of Let Me Hear Your Voice, A Family’s Triumph over Autism
A practical guide to identifying specific goals and skills for teaching children with autism spectrum disorders. With over 70 years of collective experience working with children diagnosed with ASD, the authors present a family focused model that places emphasis on the needs of both the child and of the family as a whole. Improving a childs skills and emotional functioning has a direct, positive impact on family functioning. By identifying family stressors and using them as a starting point for child-centered goals, parents can achieve the best outcome for both the child and the family. With the two-fold goal of teaching children with autism new and adaptive behaviors, and simultaneously reducing family stress, this is an invaluable resource for any family that includes a child with special needs.
Soft Cover, 281 pages, c. 2004 |
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$24.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9755859-0-0
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# DRL210 |
Teaching Playskills to Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder
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Teaching Playskills is a comprehensive manual encompassing the many aspects of play and how they can be incorporated into the lives of children with developmental delays. Written accessibly and intimately, Dr. Smith gives both parents and professionals a concrete look into the dynamic world of play and how it affects and applies to our exceptional children. The guide begins by defining play and delineating methods of developing and teaching playskills. It addresses everything from building toys to games and music, to sensory play as well as imaginative play. The final chapters deal with the important yet challenging aspects of peer interactions and the dynamics of playgroups for preschool and school-aged children.
The progression of playskills is a key element in development. In fostering and encouraging our exceptional children to learn how to play, we are assisting them in their progression toward the mainstream. Teaching Playskills is an invaluable manual for families that are participating in their children¹s home or center-based intervention programs and need guidance on how to incorporate age-appropriate playskills into daily living. Part of what makes this particular book so useful is the way in which Dr. Smith clearly delineates how to utilize readily available toys, songs and objects to aid in the process of teaching a child how to play, something that we as adults far from those days find extremely difficult.
About the Author Melinda Smith, M.D. is the parent of two young boys, the younger being diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum. Throughout two years of intensive Applied Behavior Analysis, Dr. Smith recognized the critical need to consistently incorporate play into any intervention program, depending initially on imitation and then moving steadily towards the goal of independent imaginative play. She found that the concept of play was surprisingly difficult for an adult to teach and that there was sparse literature addressing the issues and special nature of play for children with developmental delays and disorders. She networked with parents, researched on the internet, attended workshops and met with professionals who dealt with teaching playskills. Through her research and subsequent dealings with her son, she realized that she had useful information for the many parents in her same situation. In 1999, she created a website "Teaching Playskills to Children with Autism" which can be visited at http://melindasmith.home.mindspring.com. Teaching Playskills to Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder is the culmination of her research and personal experience. As the number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders grows at such an astonishing rate, parents like Melinda are meeting the lack of available product with innovative ideas that address the special needs of our constantly growing and learning children.
Soft Cover, 174 pages, c. 2001 |
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$24.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9665266-3-9
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# DRL212 |
Party Train
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Beautifully illustrated with brilliant vibrant three-dimensional images, Party Train was written and illustrated especially for young children with developmental delays, particularly in the area of speech and language. Based on behavioral techniques, Party Train was written by a parent who used the same principles to teach her child how to speak.
Vividly colored three-dimensional images capture the child¹s attention and help to focus the child¹s concentration. The giraffe, dinosaur, whale and butterfly that ride on this charismatic Party Train make learning how to speak tons of fun! Each turning page encourages the child to participate in the story by using words that grow in complexity as the story unfolds. In order to turn the page, the child must repeat a particular phase that is integral to the unfolding of the plot, such as "Want car and animal!". As the story progresses, the phrases become a little bit longer and more complex. Party Train is an ideal tool for parents teaching language to children with special needs as it reinforces both expressive and receptive language.
Hardcover, 32 pages |
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$16.95 USD
ISBN: 978-0-9665266-1-5
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