Reinforcement Ideas For Your Home Reinforcement Ideas for your Home Reinforcement systems and rewards can be great at keeping children working towards the end of an activity. Be sure to alert the child as to how much work they have to do in order to earn the reward (work for 10 minutes, 5 [...]
What is Reinforcement? What is Reinforcement? The process of encouraging or establishing a belief or pattern of behavior, especially by encouragement or reward. Positive vs. Negative Reinforcement Positive reinforcement refers to the act of introducing certain stimuli after a particular behavior is exhibited. Negative reinforcement refers to the act of removing certain stimuli after a [...]
Tips for Making Your Kiddo More Self-Sufficient Have high, yet realistic expectations – One should make sure to challenge your child to do only things you know they are currently capable of doing. If your child has fine motor delays it would be unreasonable to instruct them to tie their shoes without any prior [...]
Promoting Independent Living Skills Promoting Independent Living Skills for Children with Speech and Language Delays: Your SLP will assist you in setting goals based on assessment data that target and focus on initiating spontaneous communication in functional activities, engaging in reciprocal communication interactions, and generalizing gains across activities, environments, and communication partners; Introduce [...]
Star Wars Carbonite Cubes Experiment - Autism Sensory Activity Hide a few of your child’s favorite star wars lego toys (or other small toys) in an ice cube mixture. Mix together the baking soda and water in a bowl. Once mixed, pack the baking soda mixture around the star wars lego toy [...]
Autism Speaks has created Autism Champions, a new website to help every resident of the U.S. reach out to their state and federal representatives! Enter your 5 digit zip code into the text box and a list of your representatives will be populated. You can simply enter your home zip code information here, into their website, and it [...]
We are happy to welcome a new member to the First Leap family! Meet our new Speech-Language Pathologist Analise Schulze! She received her bachelors degree from the University of Texas at Austin in Communication Sciences and Disorders and graduated with her Masters from the University of Houston in 2013. She recently completed her clinical fellowship year (CFY) at a preschool in Plano [...]
