What Manners to Teach Kids with Autism

Dr. Mary Barbera discusses What Manners to Teach Kids with Autism.
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There are a lot of ingrained habits that many of us have for teaching children manners. When Lucas was little, we taught him to say “God bless you” when we sneezed. Then we taught him to immediately say “Thank you”, followed by “You’re welcome”. Inadvertently, we taught all of those phrases together in a single “God-bless-you-thank-you-you’re-welcome” phrase. So in this episode, I’m giving you some insight into what manners to teach kids with autism.

There are three common mistakes that parents and professionals make when teaching manners, and chaining phrases together, as we did with my “God bless you” example. In addition, parents and professionals often teach manners too early, before a child has the language framework in place, and they don’t teach manners systematically. But how should you teach a child the phrases “please”, “thank you”, and “excuse me” ??

In today’s video you’ll learn:
How I teach the word “thank you” in its appropriate context.
What “chaining” words together looks like, and why you should avoid teaching in this way to a child.
The best way to use physical reinforcers to naturally teach manners.

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Dr. Mary Barbera. I fell into the autism world as an autism mom in 1999 when her first-born son, Lucas, was diagnosed with autism. Since then, she became a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and best-selling author of The Verbal Behavior Approach. Since 2015, she’s created 3 autism online courses based on applied behavior analysis for professionals and "gung-ho" parents. Whether you’re looking for autism parenting strategies, working with development delays in children, or in search of autism help for professionals, I can encourage you to subscribe to the channel and join me on my journey. I’ll be providing weekly autism resources that you don’t want to miss.