Resources to support your child at home
The home setting does not typically offer the same level of routine and structure usually provided to your child in daycare, school, or other structured activities. As a result, it can be challenging to keep your child engaged in learning new skills or strengthening existing skills or behaviours at home.
The following section will provide you with some resources that may help you support positive behaviours and ongoing learning for your child, all the while preventing frustration or challenging behaviours that can become barriers to your child’s and family’s well-being. These resources may also provide you with an overview and suggestions to help your child be more independent.
Some of these resources were developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent interruption of services delivered through the NB Preschool Autism Program and the closure of New Brunswick’s schools. However, the principles, concepts, strategies and suggestions they contain can apply nonetheless and can be helpful for families in supporting their child.
Planning Reinforcement with Your Intervention Team: A Resource for Families Enrolled in the Preschool Autism Program
Reinforcement is a key element to a child learning and maintaining a new skill or behaviour. This resource aims at helping parents and families prepare and plan for implementing reinforcement at home with their child, both within the context of their in-home intervention as well as in their daily family lives.
Strategies for Supporting Your Child`s Success at Home
COVID-19 definitely affected everyday life, and families have had to adapt to new realities. This resource provides a variety of strategies that can help support positive behaviours and prevent frustrations during changes.
Telehealth: A Resources for Families Enrolled in New Brunswick's Preschool Autism Program
During the COVID-19 pandemic, professionals from the Preschool Autism Program were required to offer services through telehealth. This resource is meant to help parents of preschool-aged children in the NB Preschool Autism Program adjust to receiving services through videoconferencing.
Creating Structure and Providing Support During Covid-19
Children require support to understand changes and cope with them and uncertainty. This resource provides ideas and strategies that might be helpful in supporting your child during important changes.
Using an Activity Schedule to Help Your Child Be More Independent
Activity schedules are types of visual schedules that use symbols, pictures or words to show the order of activities to take place in a given time. This resource provides an overview and suggestions for how you might create and use an activity schedule to help your child be more independent.
Using Positive Reinforcement to Motivate and Support Learning at Home
The closing of schools and other services during the early phase of the pandemic has caused families to have to change many aspects of their daily life, including learning at home. This resource provides an overview of positive reinforcement, an essential tool to support learning new routines and behaviours.