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School is a demanding, busy, stimulating, and noisy place. While in school, the constant demands on the nervous system can leave an autistic child feeling mentally and emotionally drained from everything they’ve had to deal with throughout the day – in other words, dysregulated.
When the nervous system is regulated, the brain and body are more in harmony, in control, a...
Body doubling is working on a task while another person is present either in person or virtually, which can help with focus, follow-through, and getting started. This supportive presence significantly boosts a person’s ability to focus and complete tasks by creating accountability, motivation, and reducing distractions. Body doubling doesn’t require the other person to active...
It is estimated that about 42% of autistic people engage in self-injurious behaviors. Self-injurious behavior (SIB) is when a person physically harms themselves by head banging on floors, walls or other surfaces, hand or arm biting, hair pulling, eye gouging, face or he...
Prompts can be used by anyone who is teaching or showing another person a new skill or task. They are additional cues which are delivered following an instruction, designed to help a person learn what the appropriate response is in a certain situation. Prompts are teaching tools that support efficient learning and lower frustration. They also support errorless learning by mak...
Declarative language is a comment or a statement that shares what one knows, observes, or thinks. It emphasizes shared observations, thoughts, and experiences rather than directives or demands. A lot of communication approaches rely heavily on questions (who, what, where, when, why or how) or instructions; declarative language does the opposite. Instead of telling a person ex...