Train the parents

How can you help parents right away?

Caregiver education

Unfortunately parents must often wait a long time to get their child autism services. For that reason, many society guidelines recommend providing parents with education about skills that can help promote their child’s social and communicative development while they wait for services..

Naturalistic Interventions

These skills are based on Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions (NDBI). The goal of these parent mediated skills is to help parents create opportunities throughout their child’s daily routine to promote their social and communication skills. Much research has focused on how to teach parents these skills using scalable technology.

Three skill sets

Please find the three basic skills sets you can teach to parents. The skills should be learned sequentially. The content was developed by the developer of the AMSE. More information about the program can be found HERE.

Most parents of children with autism spectrum disorder know their child needs help with social and communication skills but they may find it hard to give that help.

This program will teach you basic naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) skills that you can teach parents. This will allow parents to promote their child’s social and communication skills to their fullest potential while they wait for the clinical services that they need.

Skill Set 1

The first thing parents need to become an expert at is getting their child’s attention. They need to have “Play Power”.

This parent does not have Play Power.

Notice how the parent cannot get the child’s attention.

There are 3 ways to get Play Power.

Start with things out of reach

Notice how the parent keeps the toys out of reach. This creates opportunities for the child to use their social and communication skills. The parent then follows the child’s lead.

Keep some control of the activity

Notice how while they play, the parent keeps some control of the blocks. This creates opportunities for the child to use their social and communication skills.

Have new activities ready in case you lose your child’s attention.

Notice how the parent has another activity ready just in case the child loses interest. This creates more opportunities for the child to use their social and communication skills throughout the play session.

Train the parents

How can you help parents right away?

Caregiver education

Naturalistic Interventions

Three skill sets

Most parents of children with autism spectrum disorder know their child needs help with social and communication skills but they may find it hard to give that help.

This program will teach you basic naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) skills that you can teach parents. This will allow parents to promote their child’s social and communication skills to their fullest potential while they wait for the clinical services that they need.

Skill Set 1

The first thing parents need to become an expert at is getting their child’s attention. They need to have “Play Power”.

This parent does not have Play Power.

Notice how the parent cannot get the child’s attention.

There are 3 ways to get Play Power.

Start with things out of reach

Notice how the parent keeps the toys out of reach. This creates opportunities for the child to use their social and communication skills. The parent then follows the child’s lead.

Keep some control of the activity

Notice how while they play, the parent keeps some control of the blocks. This creates opportunities for the child to use their social and communication skills.

Have new activities ready in case you lose your child’s attention.

Notice how the parent has another activity ready just in case the child loses interest. This creates more opportunities for the child to use their social and communication skills throughout the play session.

Skill Set 2 (coming soon)

Autism Mental Status Exam

Train the parents

How can you help parents right away?

Caregiver education

Naturalistic Interventions

Three skill sets

Most parents of children with autism spectrum disorder know their child needs help with social and communication skills but they may find it hard to give that help.

This program will teach you basic naturalistic developmental behavioral intervention (NDBI) skills that you can teach parents. This will allow parents to promote their child’s social and communication skills to their fullest potential while they wait for the clinical services that they need.

Skill Set 1

The first thing parents need to become an expert at is getting their child’s attention. They need to have “Play Power”.

This parent does not have Play Power.

Notice how the parent cannot get the child’s attention.

There are 3 ways to get Play Power.

Start with things out of reach

Notice how the parent keeps the toys out of reach. This creates opportunities for the child to use their social and communication skills. The parent then follows the child’s lead.

Keep some control of the activity

Notice how while they play, the parent keeps some control of the blocks. This creates opportunities for the child to use their social and communication skills.

Have new activities ready in case you lose your child’s attention.

Notice how the parent has another activity ready just in case the child loses interest. This creates more opportunities for the child to use their social and communication skills throughout the play session.

Skill Set 2 (coming soon)

Training vignettes

AMSE Instructions (Español)

Autism Mental Status Exam