{"product_id":"9781890627416","title":"Self-Help Skills for People with Autism: A Systematic Teaching Approach","description":"Learning self-help skills-eating, dressing, toileting, and personal hygiene-can be challenging for people with autism, but is essential for independence.  \u003ci\u003eSelf-Help Skills for People with Autism\u003c\/i\u003e thoroughly describes a systematic approach that parents (and educators) can use to teach basic self-care to children, ages 24 months to early teens, and even older individuals.  With an encouraging tone, the authors-behavior\u003cbr\u003eanalysts and psychologists-emphasize that it's worthwhile to devote the extra time and effort now to teach skills rather than have your child be forever dependent on others.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe many case studies throughout \u003ci\u003eSelf-Help Skills\u003c\/i\u003e depict individuals with deficits in specific self-care tasks, and demonstrate how a coordinated and systematic approach is effective in teaching more complex skills.  For example, a 12-old with the self-feeding skills of a toddler, who was excluded from the school cafeteria, is taught to stay at the table to eat a full meal using utensils.  The book's beginning chapters explain the teaching process in detail:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpecify the target skill to be taught after prioritizing the self-care tasks that are most important and will likely have the greatest success rate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Use task analysis to break complex skills into a series of small steps that will later be  \u003cbr\u003e  linked together to form the more complex skill \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Apply a systematic approach to instruction that consistently employs proven methods for \u003cbr\u003e  teaching people with autism including verbal prompting, reinforcers\/rewards, chaining, \u003cbr\u003e  graduated guidance, shaping, modeling, visual supports, etc. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Monitor progress by collecting and analyzing data\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Modifyyour approach as needed to achieve the target goal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA chapter is devoted to each of the four skill areas (eating, dressing, toileting, personal hygiene) offering detailed insight and specific instruction strategies.  Appendices contain forms to complete for task analyses, instructional plans, and data collection.  With the information in \u003ci\u003eSelf-Help Skills\u003c\/i\u003e, parents can immediately start teaching their child, or refer back to the book to fine-tune skills as their child develops.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodbine House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039221596400,"sku":"9781890627416","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781890627416_p0.jpg?v=1763608781","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781890627416","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}