Learn to Teach Your Child to Thrive
Learn how to teach your child to be more skillful, less frustrated and more able to participate in, and enjoy family and community life. Regardless of how profoundly affected your child is by their learning challenges, this book will give you the skills that YOU need to start teaching your child using methods that work.
Martin Kozloff PhD - author of numerous books and articles for autism parents and professionals
Anne Wormald M.ADS, BCBA - expert in teaching kids and parents
Download the Free Worksheets
These worksheets are essential for your success in teaching your child. You'll be learning new skills and in order for these to work for you, you need to practice. Simply reading is just not enough. Please take your time, read the book and complete the worksheets for each chapter. You're going to learn about cutting edge teaching techniques and so you'll want to take it slowly so that your child and your family can get the maximum benefit.
You can buy these on Amazon if you want, but we recommend the free version that you can print on 3-hole punched paper and put in a binder for ease of use.
What's covered in the book
In this book, you'll learn about the basics of behavior science and gain the skills YOU need in order to teach your child effectively, step by step, using methods that are proven to work. Topics include:
Learning and Knowledge: The 5 types of knowledge; why your child has difficulty gaining knowledge; how the learning mechanism works; why diagnoses and labels (overactive, sensitive, stubborn, etc.) don't help your child learn.
Observation Skills: Why increasing your own observation skills is critical to being able to teach your child functional behaviors; how to improve your observations skills and what to look for in your child's behavior.
Understanding the Behavioral Approach: What behavior is and is not; the ABC of behavior; how to motivate your child's behavior change.
Identifying Teachable Behaviors: Introduction to the TAGteach method; how to choose behaviors to teach; how to shape behavior step by step in a way that's fun for you and your child.
Positive Reinforcers: How to identify and use positive reinforcers that will work to help you child gain functional behaviors.
Designing Your Lessons: Some big ideas to help you design lessons that will be fun and effective for your child.
Behavior Change Goals: How to identify the most important behavior change goals for you and your child (yes you will need to change your own behavior in order to teach your child effectively!).
Replacing Tug of War with Cooperation: Principles of learning that will help you gain cooperation and reduce family discord; practical tips for reducing tug of war with your child.
Create a Behavior Modification Plan: Tips and step by step help in creating your first behavior modification plan to help your child learn to cooperate rather than resisting.
The Series
This book is part 1 of a series. Here is an outline of the entire series:
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