New Book Highlights Unique Early Education Program for Children with Autism
Thursday, May 22, 2008
By: Carin Yavorcik

Program can improve options for parents and school districts.

It’s Time for School! provides valuable support and training in services once thought to be out of reach for many schools. The book was written by the Autism Partnership, whose Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) classroom model has been used in some of the largest school districts in the United States, namely Las Virgenes Unified School District in California, Clark County School District in Nevada, Los Alamitos Unified School District in California and Knox County Schools in Tennessee. The publication of It’s Time for School! Building Quality ABA Educational Programs for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders makes it possible for all schools to take an important first step in setting up system-wide services to address the needs of children diagnosed with autism.

The editors offer advice on how to determine and optimize the best school placement for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). With other key contributing scholars and professionals, they chart an accessible, step-by-step strategy, providing a course of action to administrators and superintendents, and across-the-board training for teachers, service personnel and parents. As practitioners in ABA, the authors emphasize the importance of keeping accurate data, and provide checklists and a how-to primer for easy implementation.

As it outlines the underlying philosophy and vision of an ABA-focused curriculum, this book carefully maps out the best approach for a successful preschool and early education classroom—and in the process offers a more natural learning environment for the child with autism.

Learn more or purchase the book at DRL Books.