Patricia Krantz - navigating the social dance

• can be done on a card reader - does not need to have imitation skills
  • related to activity schedules
• helpful to have 2:1 intervention - teaches the conversation process 
  • partner does not prompt - conversation about sharing information
• Interesting comments and questions
• Talk at child's level - model language
• Length based upon language level
  • exchanges that are too long are punishing
• Model good prosody
  • children with autism are not hearing impaired
• use rehearsal for nonverbal responses - prompted
• need to orient
  • COMPLETE, CLEAN RESPONSE CHAINS
  • shaping orientation - no "look at me" or praise for looking
  • APPROACH - LOOK - COMMUNICATE
• manual guidance at first - errorless procedures
  • use graduated guidance to increase responding
  • well-trained prevents errors
  • spatial fading
  • shadowing - remove intrusiveness of the prompter
  • decreased proximity - adults move further away
    • until only one adult is needed
  • what's the goal of this activity?
• observe, record, and add scripts
  • script
  • novel statements
  • combinations
  • larger vocabularies
• need many interspersed activities to increase the interaction
• button activated recorders for mand training and script-fading allow for time delay and script fading
• record three different phases on the recorder
• contextual social interaction
  • peer interaction
  • instersperse scripts within the activities
  • scripes are rotated daily
  • teach reciprocity