Chapter 1. Independence, Choice, and Social Interaction
What Is an Activity Schedule?
Chapter 2. Prerequisite Skills: Is My Child Ready for an Activity Schedule?
Identifying Picture versus Background
Matching Identical Objects
Picture-Object Correspondence Skills
Accepting Manual Guidance
Chapter 3. Preparing a First Activity Schedule
Identifying and Preparing Rewards
Designing the Environment
Preparing to Teach Social Interaction Skills
Chapter 4. A Different Way to Teach
Decreasing Physical Proximity
Chapter 5. Measuring Schedule Following
Solving Data-Collection Problems
Chapter 6. The First Schedule Is Mastered!
New Pictures and Activities
New Problems, Familiar Solutions
Chapter 7. When Do Activities End?
Other Time-Management Skills
Time-Management Skills and Family Life
Chapter 8. Increasing Choice
Teaching Children to Choose Rewards
Teaching Children to Sequence Their Own Activities
Teaching Children to Deliver Their Own Rewards
Chapter 9. From Pictures to Words
Reading Skills and "To-Do" Lists
Activity Schedules in a High-Tech World
Chapter 10. Expanding Social Interaction Skills
Social Skills for Nonverbal Children
Social Skills for Children Who Say a Few Words
Building Peer Interaction Skills
Social Skills for Children Who Use Phrases and Sentences
Fading Auditory and Textual Cues
Chapter 11. Activity Schedules for Adults
Activity Schedules at Home
Activity Schedules at Work
Activity Schedules in Community
Activity Schedules and Task Analyses
Chapter 12. Activity Schedules: A Platform for Progress
Activity Schedules Increase Engagement
Activity Schedules Decrease Problem Behavior
Activity Schedules Help Young People Learn to Learn
Activity Schedules Foster Independence
Activity Schedules Promote Skill Generalization
Activity Schedules Help Young People Use the Same Cues We Use
Chapter 13. Problem Solving
Appendix A. Prerequisite Skills Data Sheets (Samples)
Appendix B. Button-Activated Voice Recorders
Appendix C. Audio Card Readers
Appendix D. Schedule Following Data Sheets (Samples).
