Teaching Self Care Skills and Independent Behaviors to Kids with Autism

Dr. Mary Barbera provides some techniques for teaching self care skills and independent behaviors to children with autism through task analysis and activity schedules.
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Teaching kids to wash hands, teaching kids to clean up, teaching kids to dress themselves and other important daily tasks can be difficult for children with autism specifically to master. Today’s video is all about how to teach self care skills to children with autism, but these techniques can really be used for anyone. We’re going to mainly focus on task analysis teaching, and how to set up activity schedules to help your child or client with autism remember the steps when teaching routines.

Not only do these techniques help children learn routines, but it can also be an effective tool in teaching independence. Teaching kids self care skills allow them to do things by themselves and not rely on you, the parent, for every task in a routine. As you may know, my goal is to allow each child with autism to reach their fullest potential to be as safe, happy and independent as possible, and teaching independent behaviors is part of that. And it’s not too difficult! If you can set up a picture activity schedule in a little booklet like I describe in this video, you’re well on your way.

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Dr. Mary Barbera. I fell into the autism world as an autism mom in 1999 when her first-born son, Lucas, was diagnosed with autism. Since then, she became a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and best-selling author of The Verbal Behavior Approach. Since 2015, she’s created 3 autism online courses based on applied behavior analysis for professionals and "gung-ho" parents. Whether you’re looking for autism parenting strategies, working with development delays in children, or in search of autism help for professionals, I can encourage you to subscribe to the channel and join me on my journey. I’ll be providing weekly autism resources that you don’t want to miss.