Cathy’s daughter Chloe is autistic. As part of her ABA therapy, we make a lot of things like flash cards and posters. It’s such a pain and so much of the stuff out there isn’t that good. So I’ve decided to put the materials that I make up here on the blog. I’ll upload them as I make them.
CALMING STRATEGIES
These are cards to show your child when they are upset. They can go through the cards and choose the calming strategy best for them. These are of course tailored for Chloe, but enough of them are universal. If you want to modify any of them, you will need to open them from Adobe Illustrator.
REWARDS THING
This only works for girls. It’s a rewards chart. If you have a child and you’re doing ABA therapy then when you daughter gets tired and needs an incentive to acheive a task, you can break out the rewards chart. Imagine that you’re trying to get her to tell you when she has to go to the restroom / washroom - each time she does, she gets a reward and that is she can put another face on the Princess chart. When she fills in all the princesses, she gets a treat. Chloe likes Caramilk chocolate bars, so, she gets all the princesses, she gets a (small) Caramilk bar.
Download and print in colour on an 8.5″ x 11″ piece of paper and laminate. Affix velcro to the heads and the blank spaces on the princess picture.
To download - click on photos to get the full-sized version. Right click and ’save target as’ (or equivalent on your browser).
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Very nice. More!
What a wonderful idea. But, you are damaging your “bad boy” image here with this obviously caring and insightful attention to Chloe… =)
This is so awesome!!!
I would appreciate if you could, if you have the opportunity, comment on the linguistic development of Chloe. Does it appear that she is unable to use words which she has learned have a variety of meanings?
Also, I would be curious on your feedback on the book, ‘The Brain that Changes Itself’. It is poorly written, but it has a wealth of information: including a write up of ‘high functioning’ autistic woman who ‘trained her brain’ to comprehend time - something she had been told was way beyond her abilities. She now runs a program that is said to be EXTREMELY successful in training Autistic (and Aspie) brains and building excellent coping ‘highways’ in the brain.
The younger tha child who enters the program, the more effective it can be - or so the claims say. I would like to know if this is true.