Our companion guides bridge existing student accommodations to assistive technology (AT) options that enable access to greater student progress within the High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM)
Type: Resource Series
The Specially Designed Instruction (SDI) Field User Guides are intended to be a bridge between existing student support plans and the instructional content available within the High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) suite of resources from TEA.
Type: Resource Series
This course sets the stage for all webinars in our Evidence-Based Practice series. Learn why identifying and using effective practices with learns with Autism Spectrum Disorders is “best practice”. Learn what evidence-based interventions and how to find resources related to them to build your knowledge and skills for your work with students with autism. Participants will be able to: define…
Type: Learning Opportunity
Reinforcement is any stimulus that will increase the likelihood of a behavior will reoccur. Learn how this intervention, an applied behavior analysis technique, is used to teach new skills and to increase behaviors. Learn how reinforcement establishes the relationship between the learner’s behavior/use of a skill and the consequence of the behavior/skill. Participants will be able to define…
Type: Learning Opportunity
Learn how prompting is used to increase the likelihood that a learner will provide a desired response and how this assists them in acquiring a targeted behavior or skill. Learn when to use a prompt, how to determine the level of prompting a student requires, and how to reduce or fade prompting once a skill is mastered. Participants will be able to define prompting and the five types of prompts…
Type: Learning Opportunity
Learn how this intervention is used to reinforce desired behaviors, while inappropriate behavior are ignored. This special application of reinforcement is designed to reduce the occurrence of inappropriate or interfering behaviors (e.g., tantrums, aggression, self-injury, stereotypic behavior). Participants will be able to: define differential reinforcement (DR) and the four types of DR identify…
Type: Learning Opportunity
Task analysis is the process of breaking a skill into smaller, more manageable steps in order to teach the skill. Learn why and when to use this intervention. Learn how it can lead to skill mastery and independences. Participants will be able to: define task analysis identify skills to be taught using task analysis identify the steps for implementing task analysis locate resources for training,…
Type: Learning Opportunity
Learn how modeling, the demonstration of a desired target behavior, results in the imitation of the behavior by the learner and how that leads to acquisition of the desired target behavior. Participants will be able to: define modeling identify skills to be taught using modeling identify the steps for implementing modeling locate resources
Type: Learning Opportunity
In this video, Ayo Jones discusses ways to involve young students in the IEP process. This video aligns with the Rubric of Effective Practices from TX CAN Indicator I: Alignment to State Standards.
Type: Resource General
Learn how naturalistic intervention can be used to encourage specific behaviors based on a learner’s interests. Learn how to use this intervention in typical settings, activities, and/or routines to build more complex skills that are naturally reinforcing and appropriate to the interaction. Participants will be able to: define naturalistic intervention identify skills to be taught using…
Type: Learning Opportunity
