Communication
This type of visual support uses pictures or symbols to help students understand routines and prepare for transitions.
What is a visual schedule?
Visual supports (like schedules and pictures) can help autistic students understand and use language.
What is True?
Students with autism often time have difficulty understanding these non verbal social cues.
What is body language, facial expressions, or gestures (such as shrugging your shoulders)?
This is an important skills a child should learn to do before eating to reduce the spread of germs.
What is washing their hands?
This is what teachers/parents/caregivers should do when a student is engaging in attention-maintained behaviors.
What is planned ignoring?
This type of cue—visual, verbal, gestural or physical—can help students know what’s expected.
What is a "prompt"?
Parallel play (playing alongside peers without interacting) is a common stage of social development for autistic students.
What is True?
Teaching students to identify these will help them develop an essential social skill of understanding their own and others feelings.
What is emotions?
Doing these around the house help build independence while also helping out parents and caregivers.
What is chores?
Often times behaviors can be reduced with an increase in ____.
What is communication?
Teachers and parents can reduce anxiety and improve communication by keeping this classroom element consistent.
What is routine or structure?
Students with autism always avoid social interaction.
What is False? – many want to connect but may need support or different ways to do so.
This visual or written tool helps students understand what to say or do in specific social situations, such as how to join a group activity or start a conversation.
What is a social story?
This is a clear sign potty training should begin.
What is when a child communicates their diaper/pull up is wet or dirty?
This is a sudden burst in undesired behaviors when reinforcement for a certain behavior is removed.
What is an extinction burst?
These are different types of total communication - which give students different ways to communicate or respond.
What is verbal, ASL, gestures, AAC device, PECs or other picture communication, and behavior?
Using visual supports is only helpful for nonverbal students with autism.
What is False? - Visual supports benefit both verbal and nonverbal students by increasing predictability and comprehension.
Playing next to another child but not directly interacting is called this stage of play.
What is parallel play?
This life skills task is something that can be done as a family to help build independence while teaching important life skills.
What is making meals together?
When the student is provided with a preferred activity or item after engaging in the preferred behavior.
What is positive reinforcement?
This communication format tells students they will receive their reinforcer after completing the task their teacher/parent has asked of them.
What is First/Then?
If a student with autism doesn’t respond to your question immediately, repeating the question quickly helps them focus.
What is False? — It’s better to wait several seconds; they may need extra processing time.
This is a common autism behavior that should not be extinguished but taught to be done during appropriate times.
What is stimming or scripting?
This is how we should teach tasks with multiple steps such as potty training or teeth brushing.
What is task analysis or step by step?
A form of data tracking that tracks what happens before, during, and after a behavior.
What is ABC data? (Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence)