Matching Objects

Video Summary

In the following clip, a therapist teaches Sajid how to match various objects to pictures of those objects, a skill that wil be an important building block towards his ability to learn. Autism spectrum disorders pose many challenges to a child's ability to learn. While teaching Sajid to match, his therapist must also routinely re direct his attention, away from the visual and aural sensory stimuli that appeal to him, to the task at hand.

Keywords

• Learning
• matching
• Nonverbal Behaviors Used in Social Interaction
• lack of eye contact
• Therapies
• therapy strategies
• working with autism
• reinforcement