"This practical guide details evidence-based strategies for implementing the Pyramid Model from the creators of the Pyramid Model. It is written for classroom teachers who are novice users of the model to help them understand the principles and use the practices. Unpacking the Pyramid Model is the definitive resource to help teachers improve their classroom practices to support social emotional competence and prevent challenging behavior"--

This book presents an updated description of The Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). It begins with a discussion of the "big picture," or the authors view on the importance of laying the foundation for communication training by systematically structuring the learning environment (be it in the home, community or school). This approach, The Pyramid Approach to Education, embraces the principals of broad-spectrum applied behavior analysis and emphasizes the development of functional communication skills, independent of communication modality. The Pyramid Approach is one of the few approaches that encourages creativity and innovation on the teacher's part through databased decision making.

Students thrive when educators commit to proactively meeting their behavioral as well as academic needs. This book will help teachers and school leaders transform the research on behavior, response to intervention, and professional learning communities into practical strategies they can use to create a school culture and classroom climates in which learning is primed to occur.

The Pyramid of Learning describes the hierarchy of the growth and development from infancy to age 12. It explains the physiological (body) and neuropsychological (brain) connection as it relates to learning. The child who has not achieved the developmental physiological milestones on the Pyramid of Learning is the child who needs to go back and do so. This child will lag behind regardless of the effort put forth to succeed. This work is best done early with ages, 5 to 7, to avoid the frustration and difficulties a child with developmental lags will inevitably endure in school. However, all ages can and will benefit from developmental motor work once any weak blocks have been identified and a meaningful motor skill program is developed to strengthen and integrate those blocks.

Presents an integrative approach to teaching people across the autism spectrum, and within any learning environment. The authors combine their acumen and experience to further clarify and refine for readers a wide array of strategies necessary to create effective lessons.