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11/01/2026

Give reading its own spot. 🏠

For many children with autism or ADHD, reading is not passive. It takes attention, and attention is a limited resource.

A space just for reading can help. Set up a corner away from distractions, or use a special carpet or pillow. Even a square of painter's tape on the floor can mark the spot.

📍 The point is a visual boundary that tells your child it is reading time.

With Juliet King, BCBA.

11/01/2026

Introducing a new activity is the hard part, and not because the activity is hard.

It is not theirs yet. A new thing offered beside something your child already likes asks for much less than the same thing offered in its place, which is usually the difference between it being refused and it being tried.

Swipe for two ways to offer it. With Juliet King, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).

10/30/2026

If your child with autism has an IEP, the Individualized Education Program the school writes for them, a new school year is a good time to revisit it.

You can ask for an IEP meeting at any time, not just at the annual review. You can ask for your child's records, and you can choose who sits on your side of the team.

This goes through the rest: a one-page sheet for the new teacher, how to document everything, the difference between a modification and an accommodation, and how to read a goal.

With Juliet King, a BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) here at Forta. The full session is free on the Forta YouTube channel.

10/30/2026

Let them pick from three. 📚

Giving choices is a standard ABA recommendation when you want more motivation and engagement. Children engage more when they feel some control.

At story time that can mean a choice of where to sit, and a choice of book.

✅ Pick three books with the themes or skills you are working on, and let your child with autism choose one of the three.

With Juliet King, BCBA.

10/30/2026

The progress report is a summary. You can ask for the data behind it.

Baseline data and the data collected on goals belong in your child's educational record, and you have the right to review it. Ask in writing. And a goal that cannot be measured is not really a goal: will be happier, and will have an improved mood, cannot be seen or counted.

Swipe for what a measurable goal looks like. With Juliet King, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).

10/29/2026

Coping is not suppression. 💛

Some common ways of encouraging coping end up feeling like one more demand: "use your coping skills" with no other help, forcing eye contact, asking for an emotion label at peak distress, or making a break depend on being calm first.

🧠 Instead, prompt one concrete response, accept more than one way to communicate, use fewer words when your child is overloaded, and reinforce early communication. Regulation is not always quiet. A child can be upset and coping successfully.

With Mackenzie Condon, MS, BCBA.

10/27/2026

Start with two shirts. 👕

Mackenzie Condon, BCBA, describes three stages:

1️⃣ Caregiver-led: you offer shirt A or shirt B.
2️⃣ Shared: they pick the drawer and help plan the outfit.
3️⃣ Learner-led: they manage their own wardrobe.

🌱 Choice becomes a teaching target that grows a little as the skills grow.

10/26/2026

A tell, not an ask. 🛁

"Do you want to take a bath now?" 🛁

If the bath is happening anyway, that question is not really a choice. A yes is luck, and a no is the start of an argument.

🗣️ Mackenzie Condon, BCBA: when the no can't be accepted, frame it as a tell instead of an ask. Let them know what's coming next, and save the real choices for the parts that can bend.

10/26/2026

There is no strict definition of play, and that turns out to be useful.

The American Academy of Pediatrics describes it as an activity that is intrinsically motivated, entails active engagement, and results in joyful discovery. Chosen, not asked for. Which is why joining what your child already picked works better than introducing something they did not.

Swipe for the three parts. With Juliet King, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).

10/25/2026

Start with one page. 📖

If your child with autism will not sit through a whole book, you do not have to finish it.

⏱️ Start with one page, one sentence, or 30 seconds, and build up from there. Most adults do not finish a book in a day either.

Build the sitting and listening first. Once your child sits and listens to a book, that is the time to add questions.

With Juliet King, BCBA.

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