Teaching the ability to answer yes and no is extremely important and functional. We developed a program based on one of our student’s inability to differentiate between answering “yes” or “no”. The student would answer “no” to questions without the answer properly representing the actual answer to the question. In order to teach the difference between “yes” and “no” we created a program
This program would be great for students who cannot answer yes/no questions.
Errorless learning helps students learn the correct response and prevent a habit of incorrect answers.
These data sheets and program guides are included in the Discrete Trial Goals and Programs Set 3.
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Thank you for this excellent video tutorial! Outstanding! It is very good practice to present the Yes/No cards along with the item under question to help the learner make the correct response. The prompt fading procedures are well-thought out and easy to implement (ease of implementation is so important). Thanks to all involved for this excellent video tutorial.
Thank you so much for the sweet words! Glad to hear it was helpful!
Y’all! I did this with one of my sweet kiddos last week and it is working! Thank you so much! I loved the video tutorial 😉
Autism is a neural development disorder which is usually characterized by impaired social interaction
I began to use this program with a nonverbal 12 year old. He is responding “yes” to everything even though we know he knows the items. When we try to use the “no” and are looking for the “no” response he gets mad and begins to bang. We believe he thinks we are telling him “no”. How can we work on this or do we continue and hope he begins to understand the difference?
It’s so hard to do error correction with this program because you almost don’t want to say “yes” and “no” for correct and incorrect because it gets really confusing. Are you using the word flashcard prompts? When my student gets it incorrectly (ie. says yes when he should say no) – I don’t say anything but just keep pointing to the no flashcard until he says no. Then provide reinforcement. Does that make sense a bit?
Yes, I am using the cards as well as the sign. I will try not saying anything and see if we can make some progress! Thanks!
Good luck! let me know how it goes!
If I had to choose people to teach, I would look for people who are naturally inquisitive, eager to learn about the worlds in which they live
I have known a number of autistic children in a family setting and learned that most are searching for someone who can relate to their life and the limitations they do not consider important.