Ways ABA Can Help Your Child This School Year
I know... I know... we still want it to be summer vacation, but school is here! Sometimes academics can be a bit challenging. If you and your child are nervous about this year’s curriculum, ABA can help. ABA-based instructional strategies can be easily implemented at home and in the classroom. Let’s prevent overwhelming emotions from taking over, causing students to lose focus and stamina. Start off the school year prepared!
Guided Notes are handouts that assist students through a lesson. They include background information and visual cues that indicate where they should write. Guided notes are an ABA approach that allows the entire class to respond to simultaneously. These provide students structure so they can concentrate on listening, thinking and capturing relevant information during a lecture or video. This would appear as your child listening to a lecture in class and taking notes with ease, thanks to some added guidance on the paper.
The Cloze Technique is widely used in ELA and ABA. It is a teaching tactic containing passages with extracted text. The student inserts the missing words using context clues. The reader is forced to use background experiences, syntax skills, vocabulary, and higher-level thinking abilities to fill in the blanks. It would look like your child demonstrating reading comprehension by filling in the blanks with the accurate terms.
SAFMEDS, Say All Fast a Minute Each Day Shuffled, are a flashcard technology developed by two behavior analysts. Unlike regular flashcards, these are considered fluency flashcards. Each student would set a performance goal, achieved through both accuracy and fluency. They are also intended to be used during timed intervals of practice. In the real world, this would appear as your child memorizing terminology by practicing their SAFMEDS for one minute after each school day, the goal being 100% correct within 60 seconds.
The 13th Child Autism & Behavioral Coaching, inc. works with families and schools in both Connecticut and New York. We accept most insurance plans. Reach out to us today and get started on your ABA journey.