Teaching Strategies for Autism:  Tools to Help Your Child Succeed

Of all the teaching strategies for autism I've learned, goals may be the most important.

Ever get lost and try to find your way somewhere without a GPS or even without a map?

Goals are a lot like a GPS. They help you to know where you are going and they help you get there faster.

Goals give you direction and focus. Because of this, they dramatically increase your ability to succeed at whatever you are doing. This will give your child a huge advantage.

To find out how to write goals that can keep you focused on helping your child succeed, click or touch here.

Sometimes our kids need a hint, a clue, or a reminder when they get stuck during a lesson. How can we help?

Thankfully, there’s an effective technique that works for most if not all children with autism. Click or touch here to find out how you can help your child through just about any lesson while giving her a greater chance of success.

If you read the article at the link just above this section, you learned an important technique for helping your child with just about any lesson. But our kids can often come to rely on that help. That’s why it’s often best to pair that method with the technique I will show you in this article. 

Understanding this concept and applying it during your child’s lessons can help him master new skills without relying on anyone else’s help.

Does teaching your child complex or multiple-step tasks seem next-to impossible? Some children have trouble learning a task that involves a series of steps.

Forward chaining can be helpful in teaching many types of skills, such as tying shoes, brushing teeth or doing the laundry. Click or touch here to learn how to teach your child a multi-step task.

As you may know, no one technique works for every child. 

That’s why we sometimes have to try different methods until we find what will help our kids succeed.

If you’ve tried forward chaining to teach your child a multi-step task and it didn’t work, or if trying something else appeals to you, you may want to learn about backward chaining. Click or touch here to find out how backward chaining works.

What can you do if your child just isn’t motivated to learn? Or what if s/he would rather do other things, especially when s/he is obsessed with something else?

Thankfully, there are proven, effective ways to motivate our kids to succeed. Click or touch here for a host of ideas on how you can make your child want to learn.

If you read the article at the link just above this section, you learned an effective way to motivate your child to learn.

This article dives deeper into this subject, showing you actual systems for motivating children with autism to learn just about any subject or skill. Click or touch here to learn more.

Many children with autism have trouble applying to other situations the new knowledge or skills they have gained. For example, they may learn how to read words from flash cards, but then be unable to read them from a book.

Check out this article on generalization to discover how to help your child apply her new knowledge to other situations she may encounter.

You work hard to teach and train your child to learn a lot of things.  At some point you'll need to know whether or how much she is making progress. This is where testing and quizzes come in. But how do you go about testing her?  

Click or touch here to learn about several ways you can measure your child's progress.