1. Putting the Pieces Together
Supporting Individual’s
with Autism in the Home
MNPS Autism Team

2. Autism Spectrum Disorder
a complex developmental disability which affects
the physiology, biology, and neurology of the
brain.

3. Inappropriate Behavior
Responses
• Non-compliance • Bullying
• Tantrum • Inappropriate
• Aggression • Self- Injury
• Self-Stimulatory • Elopement/Leaving area
• Inappropriate Verbal • Off-Task
Commenting • Compulsive/ Impulsivity
• Property Destruction • Withdrawal
• Inappropriate touching

4. Providing Structure
• Visual Strategies: are things that we
see that enhance communication.
-Helps to reduce anxiety
-Helps support understanding

5. Timers
www.timetimers.com
www.online-stopwatch.com

6. Visual Schedules
WRITTEN SCHEDULES PICTURE SCHEDULES
John’s Schedule Get pencil
 Get shirt
 Put on
 Get Pants
 Put on Write name
 Get socks and shoes
 Put on
 All Done
Math
Work First/Then Break
 Sit at table
 Eat dinner
 All done /Break
All Done

7. Visual Cues

8. Calendars

9. Reinforcement
• Used to increase behaviors you want to see
again.
• Should be immediate when teaching new
behaviors.
• Increase delay in reinforcement as behaviors are
acquired.
• The individual should be aware of what they are
working for.
• Choice Boards
• First/Then Boards
• Token Boards

10. Choice
Boards
Picture Resources
• Mrsriley.com
• Google Images
• Boardmaker
• Picture Card Maker- iPhone

11. First/Then
Boards
Tokens are used to teach delayed
reinforcement. The provide a concrete
Token visual.
• Give token immediately following a
Boards behavior or/
• Give token after a specified amount of
time with absence of the target behavior.

12. Token Board
Example

13. Token Board Examples

14. Structured Work Systems
• Teach independence skills
• Provide concrete visual directives, embedded in
task
• Clear beginning and end
• Left to Right

17. Work Folder Systems
Index card system
Visual Schedule
Folder 1
Folder 2
Break
Folder 3
Embed visual instructions inside All done
the folders

18. Autism Team
Ada Winford, Lead Teacher
ada.winford@mnps.org
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Lynnette White Hofmeister, Behavior Analyst BCBA
lynnette.white@mnps.org
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Adrienne Flannery-Reilly, Behavior Analyst BCBA
adrienne.coscia@mnps.org
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Becky Sain, Exceptional Educator
becky.brewster-sain@mnps.org
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Gladys Henry, SLP
gladys.henry@mnps.org
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Angela Vaughan, Exceptional Educator
angela.vaughan@mnps.org

19. Thank you!
“If they can't learn the way we teach,
we teach the way they learn”
~ O. Ivar Lovass