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 skill development starts at a very young age – even a 6 week old baby

The term behavioral trap was first described by Baer and Wolf (1970) when describing how natural contingencies of reinforcement can operate to promote and maintain generalized behavior changes. Alber and Heward (1996)

Often called file folder games or file folder activities, these are matching activities that provide visual structure and repeated practice on skills and concepts to allow for mastery or maintenance of matching skills.

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 educational system, an ETR is conducted at least every 3 years,

One of the first steps in obtaining needed services for your child is meeting with a service provider to develop a treatment plan or an Individual Service Plan (ISP). Often in these meetings, parents are faced with the challenge of trying to summarize their child’s needs.

The annual IEP meeting is a great time to reconnect with parents, teachers, principals, directors, and any intervention staff to determine the best individual plan for a specific child. Unfortunately,