Teaching Christian Receptive Language

Video Summary

Christian's therapist Tia helps him improve his receptive language skills by working on a simple, one step command: "Give me." They later practice imitation together. While typically developing children learn these skills on their own, many children with autism must be taught them. Throughout the video Christian engages in many distracting sensory seeking behaviors, including grinding his teeth, chewing on toys, looking at his fingers and making high pitched sounds.

Keywords

• Play
• lack of imitative social play
• Restricted
• seeks sensory stimulation
• sensory stimulation
• unusual sensory interests
• Social Interaction
• lack of spontaneous imitation
• Therapies
• therapy strategies
• working with autism
• command prompts
• reinforcement
• Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA)
• imitation
• Verbal Communicative Skills
• lack of receptive language
• receptive language