Gina from The Autism Helper demonstrates online parent coaching using the adaptive book Farmer, Farmer, What Do You See? with her child Suzy. She models concrete strategies: pointing to boxed words for print tracking, asking questions, offering visual choices, using hand-over-hand guidance, and adding animal sounds. Parents should adapt lessons to their child's responses and keep interactions playful.
Hi everyone, this is Gina from The Autism Helper. I wanted to give you an example of how I coached my parents online with Screencast-O-Matic. I like making these short little videos going over what we discussed in our session, or maybe if the child's present, you can do it with them and walk them through it. So this is kind of how I would do a little session. So, hi Mrs. Russell, so today I showed you this adaptive book, Farmer Farmer, What Do You See? And I just wanted to go over with you one more time real quick how you can read this book with Suzy and the types of different activities you can do. So you can show them, show her the COVID and it's called Farmer, Farmer, What Do You See? And I like to point to each word as I read them, especially when we get to this area because they're all boxed off, and that helps with print and tracking. So you can do that along with Suzy when you read to her, and you can just start at the top. Farmer, farmer, what do you see? See, and then you can point to her eyes and say, "Suzy sees. What do you see, Suzy?" Oh, and I like to point to the animal, and then eventually you can kind of fade off your point, but for now we can say, "What do you see?" And even if she doesn't say pig, that's okay. You can bring down the pig option and the chicken and just have 2 down on the table, and then say, "A pig is in the mud." Ew! Yucky mud! And if she doesn't pick up the correct one or she's not really sure what to do, just hand over hand, take her hand. So for example, you're gonna go like this. So her hand's right here, and you can take your hand and put it over and gently guide her hand to the right answer and show her where it goes in the story. A pig in the mud! And then you can talk about sounds. Oink, oink, oink! A pig makes an oink sound. And then you can just go through the rest of the book and Like that. Just show her the book and you can let her touch it and just, you're just creating awareness. So that was just a little example of how you can follow up your lessons and coach at home. Make sure you're talking to the parent, seeing what they really need, and then developing your lessons around that.
