Skills® empowers teachers and schools to create and implement comprehensive, customized teaching plans for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). An easy-to-use online program, Skills® improves learning outcomes, maximizes budgets, and provides measurable progress for proper placement and continued funding.
Based on decades of research, Skills® identifies every skill a child needs across the entire range of human functioning, from infancy through adolescence.
With the unique Skills® approach, teachers and schools can:
Improve learning outcomes
Ensure compliance
Maximize school funding
Facilitate proper class placement
Increase efficiency
Skills® is intuitive and comprehensive, making it easy to administer effective research-based
teaching plans to a diverse group of students with a wide range of special needs.
Answer a series of questions to identify the student's skill level across all areas of development.
Based on the assessment, Skills® automatically generates an individualized pool of activities. Add your desired activities to the teaching plan by checking the boxes.
Implement your plan and measure its effectiveness with extensive progress-tracking reports and graphs.
The unique set of Skills® curricula addresses eight distinct areas of human functioning:
Goal-oriented behavior and
self-management, such as memory, attention, planning, self-awareness, flexibility, and problem solving
Perspective-taking skills or "Theory of Mind" (i.e., the ability to understand the mental states of oneself and others)
Social interactions and relationship building, as well as social language skills and self-esteem
Language arts and math skills, so a child can independently participate in assignments at school
The ability to communicate effectively and understand others
The visual, oral, and motor skills a child needs to communicate effectively, participate in play and daily living activities, and succeed academically
Various forms of play, including interactive, independent, pretend, and computer play
The ability to engage independently in daily living activities, from dressing and toileting to setting the table
The Skills® story can be traced back more than three decades, when the Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) was established in 1990 based on UCLA’s Dr. Lovaas's findings. Two decades later, CARD researchers created Skills®, integrating more than 30 years of scientific study with the latest online technology.
The Skills® BIP Builder is the ultimate tool for efficiently designing effective behavior intervention plans for challenging behavior. Proven and safe, the Skills® BIP Builder uses evidence-based practices and emphasizes least-intrusive procedures.
With the Skills® BIP Builder, teachers can:
Skills® LogBook is the most intuitive state-of-the-art mobile application for efficient and accurate real-time data collection in the classroom.
The Skills® curriculum is based on applied behavior analysis (ABA). Widely regarded as the most effective treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder, ABA is the only treatment shown to produce significant, long-term improvement. In developing an ABA treatment plan, a clinician analyzes the relationship between a given behavior and the child's environment (the causes of the behavior) and then systematically applies a series of targeted interventions. Through this process, ABA reduces maladaptive behaviors, increases wanted behaviors, and improves the child's functioning.
The strategies in the Skills® curriculum are grounded on over 40 years of research on the use of ABA-based procedures for teaching skills to individuals with autism. The Skills® assessment has been shown to have excellent validity (Persicke et al., 2014) and the language subscale to have excellent reliability (Dixon, Tarbox, Najdowski, Wilke, & Granpeesheh, 2011).
"Skills® has been such an asset to the Mamaroneck School District. Teachers and staff have commented on several occasions how Skills® has contributed
positively to their students' progress and class functioning as a whole. Its comprehensive assessment has given teachers direction in planning for their students' individual needs, and its design has
created greater consistency amongst team members and more effective monitoring of progress. Skills® can greatly benefit any type of learner in any type of educational setting."
– Frank L., MS, School District Behavior Specialist, New York
Our personalized sessions help teachers take full advantage of the
Skills® program and maximize its effectiveness in the classroom.
Consultations include:
