Teaching your autistic child is an exhausting, unending task. Professional, one-on-one therapists, readily available and willing to make house calls are a luxury few families can afford. That is why Teach Town can be such a blessing.

Researchers are scrambling to devise programs to address the special needs of the autistic child. Teach Town is one of the few programs which has actually succeeded. This self- adjusting program introduces foundational skills using errorless teaching. Mastered skills are then interspersed with new skills to keep success rates high. One of the many unique features of Teach Town is that the child is allowed to choose his favorite visual and auditory rewards. However, parents have the ability to remove reinforcers that are inappropriate or too stressful for their child.

Grounded in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), TeachTown is based on Discrete Trial Training (DTT) and Pivotal Response Training (PRT). It targets receptive language by introducing vocabulary, complex language skills, questions and verbal directions. It teaches early academics including basic reading and math skills. It also trains a child to identify emotions by paying attention to important social features such as looking at the eyes and mouth.

TeachTown's program includes an initial skill assessment (completed by you) to place the child at an appropriate ability level. Don't worry if you are a bit uncertain about a particular skill level, as the program will automatically move your child forward or back depending on your child's actual performance. In TeachTown your child's performance is tracked automatically and data is displayed in multiple ways for you to follow his progress over time. If you are working with a therapist, she also will benefit from TeachTown's tracking and history of your child's progress.

TeachTown also includes activities that can be printed out to use to work on critical skills that cannot be targeted through the use of a computer. Each task includes a list of the materials needed a simple directions for the activity. What a wonderful way to include siblings or grandparents in your child's therapy

TeachTown grows with your child and new content is added gradually as the child is ready. This is a comprehensive curriculum for autistic children who are functioning in the 2-8 year old age range for language, cognitive and social skills.

Unlike traditional software, TeachTown: Basics is a subscription service and requires the use of the Internet for every session. Committed to growing with your child, TeachTown will provide you with continual updates to your program as well as technology enhancements like new curriculum, lessons, new interactive, animated rewards, and even off-computer learning exercises. With a cost that is lower than an hour of traditional ABA therapy, your child will have a month of unlimited access to a program with a documented success rate. And let's face it, when you home school an autistic child you long for a moment to collect your thoughts without jeopardizing the progress your child can and should be making. Using TeachTown will now allow you some downtime while your child improves in so many areas.

Additional information from the publisher:
TeachTown: Basics features a comprehensive, scientifically backed curriculum that teaches the child using on-computer lesssons and off-computer, naturalistic activities. Progress is graphed automatically and your entire team can share data and session notes over the TeachTown secure server.

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Motivating Software Program
The TeachTown program maximizes the child's motivation using:

• Grounded in Science of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), Education, Speech Pathology, and Clinical and Developmental Psychology
• Program based on Discrete Trial Training (DTT) and Pivotal Response Training (PRT)
• Comprehensive Curriculum for Developmental-Language Ages 2-8 years (Appropriate for any age that functions within this age range for language and/or cognitive skills)
• Receptive Language: Introduces hundreds of language concepts including basic vocabulary, prepositions, adjectives, and more complex language skills..
• Cognitive: Develops cognitive skills such as attention, memory, and categorization and teaches early academics including early reading and math.
• Social-Emotional: Teaches the child to attend to relevant social features such as paying attention to eyes, emotion identification, face processing, and being a good friend.
• Independence: Increases awareness of self and community by teaching the child more about their bodies, how to care for themselves, and about other people and things in the community.
• Off-Computer Generalization Activities: Enhances skills taught on the computer and provides ideas for generalizing skills to the child's natural environment. Activities do not require an expert to implement and are fun for the adult and child.

• Data Collection and Tracking: Child's performance is tracked automatically and data is displayed in multiple ways for adults to follow the child's progress over time.
• Communication System: Professionals and families can keep in touch and stay up to date on the child's progress using the TeachTown communication and session note system over our secured internet connection.