%Autism Classroom Resources Podcast%

Special education classroom setup is tough. You don’t always know which students you are getting. Will last year’s setup work? It’s a new room, and you don’t know what furniture you have. And sometimes you end up setting it up and making changes for the first month of school.

Replacement behaviors sound simple until you are standing in front of a student who is throwing chairs, and you realize that “use your words” is exactly the thing he cannot do right now.

I have spent more than 30 years working in and around special education classrooms as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst and doing research on behavior. Choosing the replacement beh...

Today’s post is written by a good friend and colleague of mine, Merrie McLean Smithson, M.S., CCC-SLP. Merrie is a speech-language pathologist with 30 years of experience, much of it spent providing push-in therapy in preschool and special education classrooms. I’m excited that she is sharing her wisdom about the Picture Exchange System and Co...