Positive Behavior Supports can be useful to parents working with children with Autism. It combines real rewards that the child is interested in with strategies to teach a variety of behaviors or skills. The skills can be educational or self help skills.
Initially we must think about the things our child will work for. We need to think about our childs’ favorite things. It might even be something as simple as a single skittle or a single piece of a cereal our child does not get very often.
Sometimes particularly with candy or cereal you may want to discontinue having that particular brand on a routine basis and have it only for the reward we will use. Some children with Autism can even tell mom or dad what they will work for.
Ideally parents will look for the one or two behaviors or skills that they would like to work on. It is difficult to work on more than two at a time because we all can quickly become overwhelmed with too many things going on at once.
Surprisingly the first two behaviors or skills should not be the worst. The first two should be somewhat easy. You will shortly, hopefully be able to drop one or both of these and go on to something a little harder.
The point to starting with something fairly easy is to build the process up of rewarding our child. At the beginning mom and dad should make sure their child understands what they want them to do. Sometimes you will even have to reward the child who is not familiar with this process just for trying.
Parents should reward their child with Autism a lot. This builds up a pattern. Eventually we can phase out the reward in preparation for working on a new skill but giving a lot of rewards come first.
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Mylinda Elliott is the parent of five children. The third of the five has Autism which was diagnosed early on. The fourth of the five children has Aspergers. She is a self taught expert on Autism Spectrum Disorders. Mylinda Elliott has also worked professionally in the disability world for the past fifteen years. She is considered the “Go To” woman for advice or resources on disabilities.
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