For BCBAs and ABA clinics
Learning, redone.
A 20-second video model of brushing teeth, made for one learner who loves spider-heroes. Your task analysis. His world.
How it works ↓This is personalization
The skill comes from the program. Everything around it comes from the child.
This learner loves spider-heroes. So the model became a spider-hero, and his bathroom got a web-print cup, a web mat and a friendly spider on the shelf. The steps didn’t change. The interest is the hook; the task analysis is the lesson.
A review of 20 studies with 91 autistic children found that every study reported gains in learning and/or social engagement when children’s special interests were built into teaching.
Gunn & Delafield-Butt, Review of Educational Research (2016) →What you’re watching
Six steps in twenty seconds.
- 0:00 · Step 1Toothpaste
- 0:03 · Step 2Top teeth
- 0:06 · Step 3Bottom teeth
- 0:09 · Step 4Spit
- 0:12 · Step 5Rinse
- 0:15 · Step 6All clean!
One step per shot
Each step of the task analysis gets its own shot and its own short spoken cue.
Calm by design
A steady camera, a slow pace and quiet music, so the step is the most interesting thing on screen.
Praise at the end
The teacher notices the finished routine, and the learner gets to feel like a hero for it.
Built on video modeling
An evidence-based practice, made for one child.
Video modeling is listed as an evidence-based practice for autistic children and youth by the National Clearinghouse on Autism Evidence and Practice. Until now, a video model meant filming a peer or buying a generic library. Now the model can look like the hero your learner already wants to be.
See the NCAEP research →The next generation of video modeling
Make one for your learner.
- 1
Target a skill or behavior
Pick it from the learner’s program: brushing teeth, waiting for a turn, asking before running. Break it into the steps you already teach.
- 2
Add the learner’s interests
Spider-heroes, dinosaurs, trains, space. Add how they learn best too: pacing, how much talking, how loud.
- 3
Review it before it’s shared
You watch the video first. If a step isn’t modeled the way you teach it, that step gets redone.