Hi Mary, This is just awesome information. I’m a nanny, but a family actually hired me to be a mentor to their 18mo old that at the time was not walking or talking. I have about 30+ years experience working with children and babies in non medical environments so this was a special assessment I felt unqualified for and expressed my concerns but the family asked if I’d just work as a mentor for 3 months so I accepted the position. My specialty is in infant sleeping, table manners, and typical toddler behavior issues. I’ve been with this child now for 3 years and love her and her family so much. Part of my time with the child is to take her to speech therapy twice a week. What I’ve already learned from just one of your videos “teaching imitation” has confirmed what my complaint has been with her therapist. In the 3yrs we’ve changed therapist several times. Most would just show the child a picture of say a dog and say “dog says woof”, more pictures and sounds, putting animals in the barn etc. Well since I’m not medically trained, I had to be careful as not to presume their method but it accomplished nothing in the way of therapy and moving this child ahead. It frustrates me we wasted so much of this child valuable learning time when early intervention of these spectrum issues is critical. I understand how children learn through play, and learn to talk, and I understand their behaviors and their avoidance behaviors just from years of experience. But I mentioned to the therapist one day after weeks of this same ole thing getting nowhere, we read to her at home and play the barn game etc, but her issues at this age and stage seem to be physical in nature. It wasn’t that she didn’t know that a dog goes “woof” it was that either her brain wasn’t connecting the dots to her muscles or her muscles themselves could not make her body produce any words. They would not explore this information from her caregiver, or try any oral implements to help her learn to control her tongue and lips. I read online about the importance of sucking from a straw so I focused on that for many weeks, but her muscle tone was weak and she could not pull any kind of liquid up. I cut the straw smaller but still she resisted. So we worked from the other end. I put the straw in ice cream and fed it to her like a baby bird sucking it off the bottom and within a week she was sucking from the top of a short straw, then on from there. We play imitation games a lot sometimes she will follow, I say Ahhhh then “M you do” and she might follow my lead and say ah, but it’s hit and miss. I realize now this step is to advanced and I need to go back to a simpler way to teach her this game of imitation. I’m so glad I found this on TH-cam. I can’t wait to share this new game of learning with her. 😉👍😊
wow, you are such a blessing to that little kid and family...keeep going, Mary's videos are very simple, very informative at the same time, after listening to several of her videos on YT, I decided to join her Verbal Behavior bundle course as i work with adults. .Glad to see such a sincere care giver!!
Just like you, I wish all this was available for us mom and dad's in 1995. You are helping so many. Just wanted you to know & for so many out there say, thank you.
I just found out my son got autism and I been so sad n depress every since . But I have to get my son all help as much as I can for him since he still hasn’t talk yet. And I looked on TH-cam n urs videos popped up’ oh my gosh! Thank you so much for all ur videos! I love it’ I’m start teaching him now. Thanks so much. Abt to order ur book too! Looking forward for ur next video ! ❤️❤️❤️
My 2 year old will just grab the items and throw them before I could even demonstrate what he’s supposed to do with them. What do I do in this case? Do you have any videos on stopping toy throwing?
helloo! good morning !! i was wondering if you could make a video or help with some questions about obsessive behavior! my son who just turned 8 has had different kinds of obsessions that usually change ! and right now he has an obsession with time ! and its awful and so strong it triggers his anxiety! and right now nothing helps ! 😩
Thank you! I’m just finding your channel and loving it. I wanted to ask you (maybe there is a video and I missed it) my son is 6 years old. He is going to first grade. He struggles with being told to do something in a group settings. What I mean is if the teacher is in front of the room and tells the entire class to do something he either is zoned out or doesn’t process it fast enough. He needs to be talked to one on one and face to face to keep his focus. Any tips to help him?
You will want to pair the table with reinforcement and perhaps start with activities that aren't imitation like shoebox or potato head. I cover all of this in my new book or my online courses. You can take a free workshop here www.marybarbera.com/workshops
@@marybarbera one more question. My son he likes to walk around snapping his fingers. Also when he sees something he likes he will be snapping his fingers. Any advice of how to make him stop doing that. Does your book have advice about how to help him stop doing that.
I love to watch a program and you to I was thinking the progress will be in Spanish to some of my clients to speak Spanish and a home care provider and I was your choice I got all my clients I don’t understand English and Spanish lesson on client is They always speak Spanish
Hi Mary,
This is just awesome information. I’m a nanny, but a family actually hired me to be a mentor to their 18mo old that at the time was not walking or talking. I have about 30+ years experience working with children and babies in non medical environments so this was a special assessment I felt unqualified for and expressed my concerns but the family asked if I’d just work as a mentor for 3 months so I accepted the position. My specialty is in infant sleeping, table manners, and typical toddler behavior issues. I’ve been with this child now for 3 years and love her and her family so much. Part of my time with the child is to take her to speech therapy twice a week. What I’ve already learned from just one of your videos “teaching imitation” has confirmed what my complaint has been with her therapist. In the 3yrs we’ve changed therapist several times. Most would just show the child a picture of say a dog and say “dog says woof”, more pictures and sounds, putting animals in the barn etc. Well since I’m not medically trained, I had to be careful as not to presume their method but it accomplished nothing in the way of therapy and moving this child ahead. It frustrates me we wasted so much of this child valuable learning time when early intervention of these spectrum issues is critical. I understand how children learn through play, and learn to talk, and I understand their behaviors and their avoidance behaviors just from years of experience. But I mentioned to the therapist one day after weeks of this same ole thing getting nowhere, we read to her at home and play the barn game etc, but her issues at this age and stage seem to be physical in nature. It wasn’t that she didn’t know that a dog goes “woof” it was that either her brain wasn’t connecting the dots to her muscles or her muscles themselves could not make her body produce any words. They would not explore this information from her caregiver, or try any oral implements to help her learn to control her tongue and lips. I read online about the importance of sucking from a straw so I focused on that for many weeks, but her muscle tone was weak and she could not pull any kind of liquid up. I cut the straw smaller but still she resisted. So we worked from the other end. I put the straw in ice cream and fed it to her like a baby bird sucking it off the bottom and within a week she was sucking from the top of a short straw, then on from there.
We play imitation games a lot sometimes she will follow, I say Ahhhh then “M you do” and she might follow my lead and say ah, but it’s hit and miss. I realize now this step is to advanced and I need to go back to a simpler way to teach her this game of imitation. I’m so glad I found this on TH-cam. I can’t wait to share this new game of learning with her. 😉👍😊
wow, you are such a blessing to that little kid and family...keeep going, Mary's videos are very simple, very informative at the same time, after listening to several of her videos on YT, I decided to join her Verbal Behavior bundle course as i work with adults. .Glad to see such a sincere care giver!!
Just like you, I wish all this was available for us mom and dad's in 1995. You are helping so many. Just wanted you to know & for so many out there say, thank you.
Thank you!!
I just found out my son got autism and I been so sad n depress every since . But I have to get my son all help as much as I can for him since he still hasn’t talk yet. And I looked on TH-cam n urs videos popped up’ oh my gosh! Thank you so much for all ur videos! I love it’ I’m start teaching him now. Thanks so much. Abt to order ur book too! Looking forward for ur next video ! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for so much!
Thank you so ma'am. I was worried about one of my students who is having autism. This video will help me a lot.
That's awesome! You are welcome!
Sure, we do this with a shape sorter. "Put in".
Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thanks for watching
I have a son 5 year old son who is autistic. Keep on educating us. God bless you.
My 2 year old will just grab the items and throw them before I could even demonstrate what he’s supposed to do with them. What do I do in this case? Do you have any videos on stopping toy throwing?
You can join a course to help him develop essential skills: MaryBarbera.com/courses
I learnt the correct progression for imitation .thank you
Thank you for watching! I'm so glad you found this video helpful :)
helloo! good morning !! i was wondering if you could make a video or help with some questions about obsessive behavior! my son who just turned 8 has had different kinds of obsessions that usually change ! and right now he has an obsession with time ! and its awful and so strong it triggers his anxiety! and right now nothing helps ! 😩
You can look up stimming mary barbera or ocd mary barbera for my vlogs on the topic. Thanks for the topic idea for furthur videos.
Thank you as always Mary
You are so welcome
How old do we expect the child to imitate what we do?
Thank you for your help
Happy to help
How much cost for the book I need your book
You can find out about the book at turnautismaround.com and you can also get it on amazon kindle and audible
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Thank you! I’m just finding your channel and loving it. I wanted to ask you (maybe there is a video and I missed it) my son is 6 years old. He is going to first grade. He struggles with being told to do something in a group settings. What I mean is if the teacher is in front of the room and tells the entire class to do something he either is zoned out or doesn’t process it fast enough. He needs to be talked to one on one and face to face to keep his focus. Any tips to help him?
Perhaps he needs a one to one to support him in this need or smaller group instruction.
Should we say do this or put the red block in the cup?
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What if he just concentrates on getting one of the items and running away and not imitating?
You will want to pair the table with reinforcement and perhaps start with activities that aren't imitation like shoebox or potato head. I cover all of this in my new book or my online courses. You can take a free workshop here www.marybarbera.com/workshops
@@marybarbera one more question. My son he likes to walk around snapping his fingers. Also when he sees something he likes he will be snapping his fingers. Any advice of how to make him stop doing that. Does your book have advice about how to help him stop doing that.
Hello Dr Merry, how long the autism baby take to talk, I have a 4 year son he is Autistic he is not talking yet.thank you for your video
Each child is different, but I think my online courses could really be helpful to you! Join me for a free workshop at www.marybarbera.com/workshops
Thank you very many.
You're welcome and thank you for watching!
Awesome 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Hi mam.i am from India...hw can i contact u...
Send us an email at info@marybarbera.com
I love to watch a program and you to I was thinking the progress will be in Spanish to some of my clients to speak Spanish and a home care provider and I was your choice I got all my clients I don’t understand English and Spanish lesson on client is They always speak Spanish
Thanks for being here.