How do I use these learning objectives?
You will have a specific learning objective in mind as you play, because if you do, your child is more likely to achieve that objective. The same game can work to teach many different skills so you will find some games repeated on more than one page. But you will think a little differently about what you are doing, depending upon the particular objective you have in mind. When your child has mastered one objective, move on to another objective, even if you are still playing the same game. Remember and highlight newly learned skills throughout the day in other activities so that your child is able to use this new skill with different people, with different materials, at different times of the day, and in different locations. Get help from your child's Speech Language Pathologist if you don't know which objectives are appropriate for your child.
Autism Games learning objectives:
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to intentionally communicate for more reasons, with more success, and with more pleasure
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to intentionally communicate using words, gestures, eye-gaze, facial expressions and body proximity
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to play and interact with others for longer periods of time
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to watch what people do and imitate what others do including actions, words, and style or attitude
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to shift attention rapidly between people, activities and toys
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to understand and use a core set of important words and phrases
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to understand pictures as representing activities and emotions and people
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to understand and use nonverbal gestures such as head shakes and nods, waves, and points
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to understand No and Yes as meaning different things at different times
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to stay emotionally regulated (calm) when others say No
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to make a choice between two or more options when provided with pictures or given a verbal choice
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to initiate games with actions, words, or pictures
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to follow routines within games and activities
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to communicate the desire to end an activity
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to protest with words
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to request with words, gestures, pictures, or eye gaze
- to use toys in a variety of different ways
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to recognize and name facial expressions for happy, sad, mad, scared, and okay
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to use words or other communcation strategies to calm after becoming upset
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to persist when appropriate
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to not persist (let things go) when appropriate
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to take turns
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to call others
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to greet others
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to say bye bye
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to ask for help
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to tell others what to do with words
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to comprehend & follow verbal directions
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to complain with words
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to remember with words
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to plan with words
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to discuss and then choose between two or more options
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to move together with others and/or in response to the movement of others