Rethink Autism is wonderful company which provides families and professionals with access to weekly tips, free webinars and a comprehensive assessment, curriculum, data collection and staff training tool. Since our theme this month is social skills, I wanted to share their tip about teaching social skills with you all (from August 2010) but I also wanted to tell you about this organization and the great things they have to offer.
The services they offer can be extremely helpful for school and home teams working with individuals with autism. Their system allows providers to input information about the student which then helps create learning targets for the student, their video tutorials train staff how to implement the ABA-based interventions and the system helps staff track data across providers for increased continuity of care. Read their mission statement below and visit their website to access a free 7-day trial of their services and check out their other offerings.
From their website
“rethink autism’s Mission:
Offering parents and professionals immediate access to effective and affordable Applied Behavior Analysis-based treatment tools for the growing population affected by autism spectrum disorders.
Our Goal:
To improve access to effective, affordable treatment by providing parents and teachers with a state-of-the-art, easy-to-follow, web-based curriculum and proven teaching tools.
We Believe:
Everyone should have access to effective intervention. When a child is diagnosed with autism, early and intensive treatment is crucial. No child’s progress should be delayed due to high costs, waiting lists, or the scarcity of trained professionals. rethink autism bridges the gap between children and effective treatment by teaching parents and teachers how and what to teach so that intervention can begin now.
Every parent and teacher can make a difference. rethink autism recognizes that parents are a child’s best and most important teacher. Our web-based curriculum provides dynamic, easy-to-follow video trainings so that parents and other teachers can learn the skills necessary to begin teaching their child today.
Every child can learn. rethink autism believes that with the right tools and support, every single child with autism can make progress. Our program shows parents and teachers how to teach so that they can discover all that a child is truly capable of achieving. We provide instruction on how to improve a range of meaningful skills — from learning to answer questions, to participating in a haircut. Our program allows parents and teachers to individualize instruction and programming goals so that each child can learn at their own pace and skill level.
Interventions based on applied behavior analysis are the most effective. Research has shown that interventions based on applied behavior analysis maximize the developmental potential of children with autism. rethink autism’s ground-breaking curriculum translates thirty years of proven research into proven techniques that parents and teachers can learn, and then use to bring the world to the classroom, and the classroom to the world.”
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