Highly structured adult-directed applied behavior analysis approach to teaching students with autism spectrum disorders using massed trials.
What is Discrete Trial Training
200
A place in the school where the student can go to escape stress; prevent tantrums, rage, meltdowns or shutdowns; or regain control after a tantrum, rage, or meltdown.
What is Home Base
200
An alternative means of communication in which students are given physical and emotional support to type on an electronic keyboard or point at letters on an alphabet board.
What is Facilitated Communication
200
Method of instruction that uses applied behavior analysis to teach pre-academic skills within typical early childhood activities in preschools or home settings instead of sitting face-to-face with the child at a table in a clinical setting.
What is Incidental Teaching
300
The repetition of others' gestures and movements.
What is Echopraxia
300
Short stories with simple sentences and optional illustrations about specific, commonly encountered social situations.
What is Social Stories
300
Repetitive motor movements such as hand flapping.
What is Motor Stereotypes
400
A modified discrete trial format that relies on interspersed mastery trials using natural reinforcement and child-selected materials.
What is Pivotal Response Teaching
400
The unwritten social conventions of a school or class that typical students intuitively comprehend.
What is Hidden Curriculum
400
Made-up words. Students with autism sometimes use them.
What is Neologisms
500
A systematic behavioral program that teaches children to use pictures to communicate their needs and desires through approaching a communication partner and exchanging a symbol for the actual object.
What is Picture Exchange Communication System
500
A condition occurring in approximately 10% of individuals with autism in which extraordinary abilities in areas such as art, music, and mathematics are displayed.
What is Savant Syndrome
500
The ability of an individual to see the world from the perspective of others.