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Autism and Typing
I agreed to my occupational therapist when she complained about how hard it was to find a good typing app for the students with autism. Most regular typing programs are visually too overstimulating and complicated. When speaking to teaching a child with autism to type words/phrases and sentences, “Peck and Hunt” should work here. 👆🏽…
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Grocery Store Math
When it comes to a basic operation of addition and subtraction practice with decimals, I figured one of the best ways to teach this concept is using money, which is a real-life math. For older students with special needs in middle and high school, you might have heard modified curriculum called Grocery Store Math, Department…
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Autism and Literacy Skills
Let’s take one of my student’ curriculum cart, pick a drawer labeled “Reading” and see what’s in there. Okay. Jonny has been working on reading sight words, and building phonetic skills lately. Here are a couple of materials he has been using. Sight Word Cards Common Nouns and Verbs Simple Decodable Books My experience with…
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Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) Conference
10th Annual International Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT)® Conference and Training PRT conference is in town! What are 5 Pivotal Responses? 5 Pivotal Responses (behavior) include motivation, responsivity to multiple cues, self-management, self-initiations, and empathy. Once a child or client makes a meaningful improvement in these areas, this will spark the development of other domains. PRT…
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What is DTT in ABA therapy?
What is DTT in ABA? ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis), DTT (Discrete Trial Training), and ITT (Intensive Trial Teaching) are all components of behavior analytic approaches commonly used in the field of special education and autism intervention. Here’s a brief overview of each:
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DTT or ITT
In my class, each student gets an hour of 1:1 work time everyday. *Depending on students’ skill level or attention, the number of Learn Units may vary- so do their goals or targeted skills. In the world of ABA, you may call this type of teaching procedure DTT or ITT. DTT: Discrete Trial Training ITT: Intensive…
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