How Do You Increase Language Of Student With Autism Using Preferred Items?
For students with Autism who have difficulty communicating verbally, it is helpful to use favorite items or activities to increase motivation for learning to communicate. The following article is a single example of using a preferred item to increase verbal language in a student with Autism. When using this strategy for your own child or student, substitute his or her favorite items and prompt the phrases that you want the student to use. In this example, the item that the student wants is a portable DVD player with three favorite DVDs. In order to gain the DVD player and the DVDs, the student must go through a series of steps, during which he must use verbal language to ask me for things. He will be learning to ask for me to open containers and to ask me for items that he wants. Take the DVD disks from their cases and place them in plastic bags or containers. Take the DVD cases and put them in another bag or container. Put the DVD player in a different bag or container. Use some bags
