Create a Reward Plan for Your Child With Asperger Syndrome

✍ Scribed by John Smith, Jane Donlan, Bob Smith

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 116
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Reward plans encourage positive behaviour using the incentive of earning rewards. This book provides a thorough nuts-and-bolts guide to creating a reward plan for your child with Asperger Syndrome (AS) to help him or her develop positive behaviours, such as social and communication skills.John Smith, Jane Donlan and their son Bob, who was diagnosed with AS at age eight, explain the importance of keeping a reward plan positive, specific and challenging enough to be stimulating. Helping your child to learn about positive behaviour while gaining a sense of achievement, a reward plan increases self-esteem, confidence and independence."Create a Reward Plan for your Child with Asperger Syndrome" is full of advice and practical suggestions for how to tailor a reward plan to meet your child's specific needs.

✦ Table of Contents

Create a Reward Plan for Your Child
with Asperger Syndrome......Page 5
FRONT COVER......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
1.
Introduction......Page 9
2.
What is Asperger
Syndrome?......Page 13
The Triad of Impairments......Page 14
Other characteristics......Page 19
Positive aspects......Page 20
Bob’s comments on AS......Page 21
3.
Making a Reward Plan......Page 27
Positivity......Page 28
Specificity......Page 30
Giving points......Page 31
Should you involve your child’s school
in the reward plan?......Page 32
Reviewing the reward plan......Page 33
Number of points......Page 35
Rewards......Page 40
Personalizing your child’s reward plan
record sheets......Page 44
Age......Page 47
So, to sum up …......Page 48
The original reward plan
(begun in January)......Page 49
Subsequent revisions to the reward plan......Page 51
Bob’s comments on the reward plan......Page 52
4.
Other Techniques
to Supplement
the Reward Plan......Page 53
Scripts......Page 54
Signs......Page 56
Sketches......Page 62
Bob’s comments on the supplementary
techniques......Page 69
5.
Combining Techniques......Page 71
The Bedtime Plan......Page 77
The ‘Caring for myself tasks’ Plan......Page 88
Bob’s comments on the ‘Caring for
myself tasks’ Plan......Page 99
What else might you create a specific reward
plan for?......Page 100
7.
Conclusion......Page 101
Looking after yourselves as parents......Page 102
Resources relating to AS and autism......Page 105
Resources relating to home education......Page 108
Advice on and resources for financial help......Page 110
BACK COVER......Page 116