IEP's
9 articles in this topic.
How to Have a Successful (and Friendly) IEP Meeting
The annual IEP meeting is a great time to reconnect with parents, teachers, principals, directors, and any intervention staff to determine the best…
How To Identify Treatment Goals For Your Child by Michele LaMarche, BCBA
How to work with your child's service provider to turn a vague concern into specific, written treatment goals covering communication and daily living.
How To Identify Treatment Goals For Your Child by Miranda Schehr
What an ETR (Evaluation Team Report) is, how the school district's evaluation process works, and what it covers for a child's suspected disability.
What are file folders and how do they help?
An explanation of file folder activities, a hands-on matching task used in special education to build and maintain skills through repeated practice.
What are task bins and how can they help in the home?
Often called file folder games or file folder activities, these are matching activities that provide visual structure and repeated practice on skills and…
behavior Traps
A behavior trap uses what a learner already loves, like baseball cards, to build and keep new skills. Where the term comes from and five steps to set one up.
Grandma’s Law
An explanation of Grandma's Law, the first-then rule based on the Premack principle, and how to use it to encourage a child to finish a task.
Basic Social Skills for an Early Learner
Social skills is the “catch-all” term for all those behaviors that allow us to interact with our surroundings, other people, and control ourselves. Social…
What is an MFE or ETR? Why is this important?
Welcome to the world of alphabet soup! MFE stands for multi-factored evaluation, it’s the ‘new’ term for an ETR or Evaluation Team Report. In the…
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