Key Strategies & Activities
Structured teaching strategies, including:
- Physical organization
- Visual Schedules
- Activity Systems
- Visuals & Routines
Table-based activities that focus on:
- Developing a meaningful and familiar routine that encourages attention, understanding, and participation
- Promoting engagement with caregivers and materials
- Predictability
- Promoting success for parent & child
Play-based activities that focus on:
- Promoting generalization of skills taught at the table to multiple environments
- Supporting learning and interaction in settings and with materials that are of interest to the child
- Allowing families to fit in opportunities for communication and interaction across the day/home
- Encouraging development of key nonverbal communication skills, such as joint attention
Routines-based activities that focus on:
- Creating structure throughout the day to increase understanding and decease challenging behavior
- Providing opportunities for families to engage with and respond to their child during daily activities