The ABA Speech Podcast- Easy Strategies for Speech Therapists, BCBAs, and RBTs • #007: Autism Social Skills: Answering and Asking Questions with Lisa Chattler • Listen on Fountain
#007: Autism Social Skills: Answering and Asking Questions with Lisa Chattler
Lisa Chattler works with middle school and high school students as an SLP. In this podcast, we talk about how to teach conversation-based skills to students who are struggling with asking and answering questions. All of us learn some form of “faking it”, where we pretend to be interested in casual small talk with strangers or acquaintances. For children with autism, this back-and-forth can be even harder as they learn to ask and answer questions while actively listening to their conversational partner.Lisa’s strategies cover different learning styles for students, and include:Using videos as prompts to retell a storyTeaching students to summarize a storyHaving an expository retellModeling a conversation and asking “Did I get that right?”Transcribing the conversationStudents who are confident in therapy can sometimes stumble during tests or in classroom discussions. Why do some students avoid asking for help? Lisa shares her thoughts on the self-advocacy piece of asking questions that we may be overlooking as we work with our patients.What's Inside:The classroom goal structure can affect whether a student learns to ask questions.Teaching exactly to the test will completely miss the concept of whether a student can answer questions correctly.How to create IEP goals for teaching students how to ask and answer questions.The one piece of advice that Lisa, after 42 years as an SLP, would pass on to new speech-language pathologists.
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