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Materials The materials you have in your ABA program need to support what you are teaching. Often is the case that with materials ill suited to what you are teaching it will take much longer to teach a task than if you had the correct materials to begin with. Realizing that this can get expensive you may try finding lending libraries or other parents that have children with autism that would be willing to trade materials or give you materials they have outgrown. This too is difficult. Sometimes it is easier to make your own materials however other times it is less time consuming to just buy the materials you need.
In addition to having materials to teach your
student you will also need materials to maintain your ABA program. A
few things that have come in useful are a computer,
printer, token board, timer, data sheets, digital camera, video camera,
a counter
These materials are not specific to individual drills but should be part
of your supplies for your home program. The digital camera will come in very
handy as you snap pictures for schedules or receptive/expressive
identification. The video camera will be handy for monitoring progress,
which you should do on a monthly basis. If you video tape your child
regularly a one hour snap shot every month should be fine. Quite often
parents will video tape 10 hours then nothing for the next year. You want to
see the gradual progress of your child and monitor your therapists to give
them feedback so monthly taping is preferable to the once a year taping. The
computer and printer will be for making data sheets and printing those
pictures you took with the digital camera. In addition to the above materials you want to have materials specific to some of the drills you have. The materials your child uses will vary depending upon the age and functioning level of your child. For example one child may be working a on 3 piece puzzle while another child will be doing a ten piece interlocking puzzle. Notice that each child is doing a puzzle but what is appropriate for one child is not appropriate for another child. Also depending upon how long your therapists have been doing ABA some of them may be able to bring their own materials.
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