Speech Therapy; Recognition of Animals

Video Summary

The following clip depicts Jazmere, a child with ASD, working with a therapist to expand his expressive vocabularly; his ability to speak as well as understand language. When Jazmere mislabels an animal, he demonstrates good engagement in the task, by repeating the correct word after his therapist. He also shows excellent mastery motivation, as he celebrates and shares his successes by gesturing (clapping hands) and smiling to communicate that he is proud of his accomplishments.

Keywords

• General Behaviors
• mastery motivation
• Learning
• animal recognition
• Nonverbal Behaviors Used in Social Interaction
• lack of eye contact
• facial expressions
• eye contact
• Nonverbal Communicative Skills
• pointing to show
• Therapies
• Speech Therapy