Autism Classroom News

I am very excited to announce that the Autism Classroom News blog can now be found at my larger website Autism Classroom Resources .  From there the newest blog posts will be down at the bottom ...

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I am really excited to link up with a great group of special education bloggers in a summer blog hop for setting up classrooms.  Come on, you know you are thinking about it....even if you are ...

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After the instruction, presenting the materials, and the prompt (if needed), our next step in a discrete trial is the learner's response. I talked last time about creative ways to have students...

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I want to thank everyone who responded to the reader survey posted last week.  I really appreciated the time you took to give me feedback about the blog so that I can continue to develop blog ...

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Have you ever felt like your discrete trials have become a "trial" (see what I did there?)?  Let's face it, when you are doing something that are sometimes called drills they can get downrig...

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If you haven't yet completed the reader survey, I would really love your input!  You can find the survey HERE and the reasons why I'm doing it HERE . I recently had a question from a Fac...

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Whenever I set up a classroom to demonstrate strategies and train staff, the most critical part of the process is sitting down with the team at the end of the day and reviewing what worked and ...

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Continuing on with the Effective Interventions in ABA series , the next prompting strategy I want to address is time delay.  I talked about most-to-least prompting and least-to-most promptin...

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Continuing the series on the series on Effective ABA Instructional Interventions , the next prompt fading strategy to address is Most-to-Least prompt fading.  Like least-to-most fading that I ...

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It is time again for Workbasket Wednesday, so link up below or share on social media with the hashtag #WorkbasketWednesday or #wbasketWed on Twitter. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE--- This post was o...

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I talked in previous posts about stimulus prompts in which we change what we present to the student to help him get the correct answer and get the reinforcer.  It's important to recognize that ...

http://www.autismclassroomnews.com/2015/05/pros-and-cons-of-least-to-most-prompt.html

I'm jumping ahead a little in the effective ABA series because I want to share some new products and ideas with you for teaching color concepts.  One of the "missions" I have in designing edu...

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Happy Memorial Day Weekend!  Continuing on with the pictures from the camp theme from the Baudhuin Preschool.  To see the first post of pictures CHECK HERE. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE--- Thi...

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I don't know about you, but I know that many of us are just DONE!  At least for this year and with Memorial Day weekend coming up, I decided that we needed a brief break from serious topics, l...

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In the last post I talked about what stimulus prompts are and gave you some examples.  Today I want to talk about some of the pros and cons of using stimulus prompts.  Some of you may be new ...

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WHAT ARE STIMULUS PROMPTS? Stimulus prompts are any type of prompt in which we change the materials in a way to help the learner give the correct response.  Any time we change the way th...

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As we are talking about prompts, I thought it important to define prompts before we talk about how to use them and fade them.  First, a prompt is anything you add to instruction to help the stud...

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Such a busy time of year with IEPs and Teacher Appreciation and testing and ...and...and.  So much going on as we wind up the year....and that doesn't even include those of you who have to sta...

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 I know! Two blogposts 2 days in a row!  Amazing!  This is just a quick one to let you know about something my fellow Special Ed. Bloggers from WeTeachSped and I had up our sleeve.  It's Ed...

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Wow, that's a lot to cover!! So many things going on this week for educator appreciation!  I have to say educator instead of teacher.  I know that teachers are one of the hardest working pr...

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So once our materials and directions in order, we need the learner to provide the correct answer so he comes into contact with the consequence for right answers--a reinforcer (more on that later...

http://www.autismclassroomnews.com/2015/04/why-prompts-are-like-training-wheels.html

I mentioned my new discrete trial kit in my last post and I wanted to share some more details and some updates that are coming for it.  The original one that is currently posted focuses on rec...

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I feel like I should write a social story for myself about not getting a blog post out when I'm involved with other things (and maybe for you as well, although you seem to handle my delinquen...

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Let me come clean at the start of this post....I promised a freebie related to discrete trials in my last post and I'm just not quite done with it yet.  I do promise that it will be worth the ...

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Those of you who follow me on Instagram, Twitter and/or Facebook, you know that yesterday I attended a session by Dr. Pat Mirenda on communication and challenging behavior.  Dr. Mirenda's wor...

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