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Off to a Good Start: A Behaviorally Based Model for Teaching Children With Down Syndrome, Book 2: Teaching Programs
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Product Description If you're the parent, teacher, or therapist of a young child with Down syndrome, you should know that Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), the evidence-based, gold-standard method for teaching children with autism, is an equally effective strategy for teaching children with Down syndrome! In Off to a Good Start: A Behaviorally Based Model for Teaching Children with Down Syndrome (a two-book set), the authors share the compelling research about the benefits of using ABA methods with children with Down syndrome, describe ABA principles and procedures, and provide the ABA-based curriculum they've used for nearly 20 years to successfully teach infants through kindergarteners with Down syndrome. With these books, readers will learn ABA practices for teaching children the all-important foundational skills for motor, social-communication, cognitive, and self-care development. Once readers understand the ABA principles outlined in Book 1, it's time to implement the teaching strategies! Book 2: Teaching Programs shows readers how to teach hundreds of essential skills using proven discrete-trial methods with prompts and reinforcement rather than the more informal ways that people typically teach children with Down syndrome. It covers:background information on how the teaching programs are structured, how to progress through them, and how to use the included planning and tracking formshow to organize materials and yourself, and work teaching into your daygeneral information on enhancing the learning environment and helping your child learn throughout the day (e.g., positioning your baby, keeping the environment stimulating, being responsive, ensuring that reinforcement is actually reinforcing, using visual schedules and token systems)comprenhensive information on teaching specific skills to children in four age groups: infants & toddlers, early childhood, preschool, and kindergarten; within each age group, skills are divided into motor, social-communication, cognitve, and self-help development, and organized into teaching programs with specific steps to teach each skillusing prompts and reinforcement to shape desired behavior and skillshow to minimize behavior which interferes with learning such as distracting parents/teachers with attention-seeking cute behavior, escaping from demands, or tuning outusing behavior modification tools: functional behavior assessment and positive behavior support to manage behavior as the child gets olderhow to access community resources and opportunities including early intervention, parent groups, inclusive recreational activities, scoping out preschool and kindergarten programs, understanding special education rights, and communicating with teachers and group leaders about ways to include your child Check out Book 1: Foundations for Learning to learn about (or reacquaint yourself with) using ABA principles and procedures to teach children with Down syndrome. Review This book is a wonderfully comprehensive how-to manual for teaching young children with Down syndrome. It has accomplished the difficult task of explaining the application of the science of applied behavior analysis using parent-friendly terms with many helpful hints, teaching procedures, data forms, and real-life vignettes. Although written with parents and families in mind, this book is also a wonderful resource for teachers, therapists and anyone who works with and loves children with Down syndrome. --Donna Morrison OTR, BCBA, LBA and Early Start Denver Model Certified TrainerAn ideal curriculum textbook for both classroom teachers and involved parents of preschool and elementary school Down syndrome children. [U]nreservedly recommended for school district, college, and university library Down Syndrome Education instructional reference collections and supplemental studies reading lists. --Library Bookwatch, December 2019 (The Education Shelf) About the Author Kathleen M. Feeley is Professor in the Co
