Index

To review any of the mentioned topics in the modules, please click on the provided links. All hyperlinked content should take you directly to the place within the training website. Read as much information within the linked section as you need to.

TOPIC: Variety in your child’s rate of progress, click: Welcome!, Who Is This Program For?

TOPIC: Learning Lessons, click: Module 2: Basic Principles

TOPIC: Your relationship with your child: Who Is This Program For?

TOPIC: Autism – signs, symptoms, definitions; click: Module 1: Expected Development, Who Is This Program For?

TOPIC: Diagnosis wait time/period, click: Who Is This Program For?

TOPIC: Personal/cultural differences, click: How to Use This Program, Eye Contact (Module 1: Expected Development)

TOPIC: Relationship with parent, click: Eye and Physical contact for comfort (1 year), Empathy (18 months)

TOPIC: Attention, click: Joint attention, Pointing/holding things up to show (18 month), 2 years: paying attention to entire picture books, parent attention as reinforcers, positive attention, eye contact and join attention

TOPIC: Picky Eating (Module 7), click: A few tips when introducing foods, Sensory sensitivity to certain foods, When picky eating is serious, Introducing new foods, troubleshooting when adding new foods, creating a picture book or poster

TOPIC: Potty Training (Module 8), click: Daytime Urine Training part 1/part 2, Beginning bowel training, bed wetting, challenges and triumphs

TOPIC: Language development, click: 1 year: names, attention to who’s speaking, following a few simple instructions, making and understanding choices, 2 years: answering yes/no questions, 3 years: sentences/longer phrases/asking and answering short questions, 4 years: understand and remember complex instructions/comparison words/having conversations about topics that interest them, 5 years: answer open-ended questions/making up short stories, putting verbs and nouns together

TOPIC: Relationships with others, click: Social interaction, playing with other kids (18 months), sharing (2 years)

TOPIC: Play, click: Pretend play (18 months), Pretend play (2 years), 3 years ED: playing with others/needing help to play nicely, 5 years: friendships

TOPIC: Eating, click: 3 years: using spoons/forks 

TOPIC: Potential frequent concerns, click: Behaviors that concerning, Visual fascinations/distress by noise, When to be concerned about your child’s development?

TOPIC: Prompts, click: Introducing prompts, physical prompt, model prompt, helps/hints, prompt fading, physical prompts (video), verbal imitation prompts (video)

TOPIC: Rewarding behavior, click: Rewarding behavior, food as reward part 1/food as reward part 2, toy rewards, painting/coloring, music, choice

TOPIC: Cooperation, click: Importance of cooperation, building cooperation

TOPIC: Reinforcers, click: What is a Reinforcer?, key points about reinforcers, Importance of reinforcers in behavior

TOPIC: Praise, click: Praise as a reward

TOPIC: Imitation, click: What Imitation means for child development?, modeling behavior, verbal imitation prompts (video)

TOPIC: Eye Contact, click: Reinforcing eye contact