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Connections for Students

Resources Provided by School Boards
and Autism Intervention Program Providers
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Parents Matter

Parents play a vital role in the education of their children. As partners in the process, parents can provide perspectives and information that will broaden educators’ understanding of the student. Parent participation will enhance program planning and assist in the determination of educational goals, methods, and motivational strategies that are most appropriate and effective for a student.

Students with ASD generally have difficulty transferring or generalizing skills from one situation or environment to another. The learning process for a student with ASD is supported when the same skills and concepts are reinforced in both the home and school environments.

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As a parent, here you will find information and resources on the Connections for Students process and how this model can support your child with ASD.

At home, at school, and in the community…parents matter!
Glossary of Terms
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Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)
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Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)
Applied Behaviour Analysis employs methods based on scientific principles of learning and behaviour to build useful repertoires and reduce problematic ones. Using this approach, there is a clear definition of the behaviour(s) to be changed, careful recording of the behaviour, and analysis of the antecedents and reinforcers that can be used to help develop new adaptive behaviours and reduce undesirable behaviours.

Interventions based on behavioural principles are data-driven and designed to change the behaviour, and the program is monitored closely. Progress is accessed, empirically, and the program is modified as necessary. ABA can be applied to anyone including people of every age, it can be applied in a variety of situations, and it can be employed for very limited and specific purposes, such as for the development or reduction of single behaviours of classes of behaviour (to improve relaxation skills, reduce smoking behaviour, teach more effective social skills).
Download the entire Glossary of Terms. PDF

Resources for Parents
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School Board/AIP
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Connections for Students Parents Brochure
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Simcoe County District School Board
March 1, 2011
Connections for Students Parent Brochure
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Toronto Catholic DSB/Surrey Place Centre
March 1, 2011
Parent Questions and Answers
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Near North District School Board
March 1, 2011
What is Connections
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Thames Valley DSB/St Clair DSB/Thames Valley Children Centre
March 1, 2011
Connections Information Brochure
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Thames Valley Children Centre
March 1, 2011

 

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