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The process where an individual (typically an adult) helps another person (often a child) to manage their emotions and behavior by providing a calm and responsive presence.
What is Co-regulation?
When the adults incorporate a child's favorite things into activities throughout the day.
What is using the child's interests?
A child has started throwing items around the house. You start naming 5 things you can see, and 4 things you can feel.
What is co-regulation
At the start of home programming, you play with a toy in a way that you saw the child playing on your last visit.
What is following a child's lead?
Using an iPad with TouchChat
what is AAC?
An opportune time for learning or for a specific behavior change to occur, often arising from a spontaneous event or situation. We often want to capitalize on these moments
What is a teachable moment
Examples of these are: hand drawings, written word schedules, or real objects, task analysis to help support the understanding of expectations.
What are visual supports
A child has dropped on the ground. What is it called when you stand after you have issued the direction "Stand up".
What is modeling the expectation
An adult starts taking very exaggerated deep breaths when they notice a child becoming upset.
What is co-regulation
A child has a potty chart posted on the bathroom wall when they are working on toilet training
What are visual supports?
Changing the expectations or demands of an activity to help it end on a positive note.
What is modifying expectations
Any tool that compensates for receptive and expressive communication difficulties by either replacing or supporting spoken language. It can be alternative (i.e., mode) or augmentative (i.e., aid).
What is augmentative and alternative communication (AAC)
Having a child's calming visual out within eyesight at all times.
What is using visual supports
A child has starting playing with blocks. The adult joins in and plays with the child.
What is child-led activities?
An adult starts sliding pieces of the car puzzle across the floor AFTER seeing the child do it.
What is following a child's lead.
After issuing a direction (i.e., stand up or giving an activity) doing nothing to see if the child responds
What is waiting
Watching what the child is doing and doing the same actions or something similar to the child
You notice that the child you are working with is having difficulty attaching the Lego blocks. One of her objectives is to ask for help. Instead of jumping in to help her, you have her communication device out and model "oh no, it's not working". She then hands the Lego piece to you to ask for help. You model "help" on her device.
What is a teachable moment?
The day has been hard, the child has not been doing what you want them to do. You decide to take the last 30 minutes of the session to just play, follow the child's lead and have limited demands.
What is modifying expectations?
After setting up a 48 piece puzzle, you notice the child becoming upset after completing 27 pieces of the puzzle. You tell the child "three more pieces and we can take a break from the puzzle"
What is modifying expectations?
What is a child-led acitivity?
When the child either starts playing, or asks to play something. The child directs the activity, choosing what, when, and how to play, while adults support and observe
What is an adult-led activity?
Structured, planned experiences where an adult guides participants, often providing instructions and demonstrating how to do something
A tool that is more concrete than auditory information, meant to support understanding of expectations, time, transitions, etc
What are visual supports.
The next activity on the schedule is dentist play. What type of activity is this most likely?
What is an adult-led activity?
An adult uses a dryer venting pipe (dryer venting is a special interest of this child) to make a car ramp.
What is incorporating the child's interests?