[ by Jason M. Wallin ]

Contents

• A Work in Progress
• Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism
• Teaching Language to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disorders

A Work in Progress by Ron Leaf and John McEachin.

A Work in Progress has a fairly extensive curriculum. It has suggestions for dealing with disruptive and self-stimulatory behavior, toilet training, eating, play and social skills, and sleep problems, among areas. Instructional programs in this curriculum can fit roughly into the following categories (these are my divisions, not the authors), with a few examples of the specific programs they've included:

• Imitation: nonverbal, blocks, verbal
• Language and Communicative Readiness: joint attention, following instructions, labeling, conversation, assertiveness, yes/no, negation, asking questions, plurals, prepositions, pronouns, attributes, "I don't know"
• Concepts: same and different, first and last, before and after, quantities
• Academics and pre-academics: Reading, writing, stories, sequencing, recall

Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism by Catherine Maurice, Gina Green, and Stephen C. Luce

While Behavioral Intervention is certainly more than a curriculum and touches on almost every aspect of a program for children with autism (from funding, to staffing, etc.), the curriculum it does provide is solid. The book provides instructional programs, at three different ability levels, in the following domains:

• Attending
• Imitation
• Receptive language
• Expressive language
• Abstract language
• Pre-academics
• Academics
• School readiness
• Self-help
• Socialization