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Dr. Patrick McGreevy & Troy Fry

Essential for Living - A Special Edition For Children and Adults with Very Limited Skill Repertoires By Patrick McGreevy and Troy Fry When a child or adult has a moderate-to-severe disability, the usual roadmaps - developmental milestones, academic standards, "catching up to typical peers" — often stop being useful, and sometimes become discouraging. This special edition of Essential for Living offers a different guiding light: Quality of Life. Instead of chasing typical functioning, it helps you teach the everyday living skills that let a person participate safely, communicate their wants, and take part in family and community life. Grounded in B. F. Skinner's science of behavior and more than 55 years of hands-on practice, this manual is written for the whole team around a learner — parents, grandparents, and extended family, alongside the teachers, behavior analysts, and speech-language pathologists who support them. Plain-language sections guide families through the fundamentals, while the step-by-step teaching guides give professionals the detail they need to help skills last a lifetime. Inside, you'll find: A clear framework for choosing an effective, lasting method of speaking — from spoken words to 47 alternative methods (signs, gestures, picture selection, speech-generating devices, and more), with tools to confirm the method actually works. The Essential Eight (and Top 10) Skills every learner needs — making requests, waiting, accepting "no," following health-and-safety directions, daily living skills, tolerating difficult situations, transitioning, and expressing happiness. Eleven practical Parent and Teacher Guides that turn each skill into concrete, do-this-today teaching routines. A simple test for deciding whether any IEP or ISP goal is a real quality-of-life skill — with dozens of worked examples and non-examples. Strategies for reducing disruptive, aggressive, and self-injurious behavior by teaching the skills that replace it. Whether you're a parent stepping into the role of advocate and teacher, or a practitioner building an individualized support plan, this manual helps you put one foot in front of the other — and build a life defined by dignity, independence, and genuine quality of life. Also available in Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French, with Chinese, German, and Russian editions in preparation.

Dr. Mark Sundberg

The VB-MAPP Guide eBook is essential for conducting a detailed assessment and placement program designed for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. It lays out a structured framework that includes instructions for assessment, criteria for scoring, and charting instructions. This guide is not only a tool for assessment but also serves as a comprehensive manual for setting IEP goals and intervention programs. The utility of a single guide extends across multiple children, making it a versatile and cost-effective resource for educators and therapists.

Dr. Patrick McGreevy & Troy Fry

This electronic version of the Essential for Living: Professional Practitioner's Handbook, like its paper twin, provides information and guidance on this functional skills curriculum, assessment, and skill-tracking instrument for students with moderate-to-severe disabilities, including, but not limited to autism. It is especially useful for learners with limited communication repertoires, minimal daily living skills, or severe problem behavior. The handbook provides the necessary information about this useful assessment and curriculum. It should be accompanied by either a print version of an ARP (Assessment & Record of Progress Manual) or the EFL App if practitioners wish to conduct the assessment and use the curriculum with their learners.

Jamie Salter & Katie Croce

The Self & Match System is a user-friendly system designed to promote behavioral success by teaching self-monitoring. By teaching practical ways to engage in positive actions, our system helps individuals – whether they are students or clients – achieve behavioral, social, and academic success. Our evidence-based system of self-monitoring with an embedded accountability partner is used by educators, therapists, and parents in a variety of settings to enhance skills, foster positive change, boost independence, and uplift lives.

Dr. Mark Sundberg

"Teaching Language to Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disabilities" is the quintessential guide for educators, therapists, and parents dedicated to enhancing communication in children with language delays. Dr. Mark Sundberg combines decades of research and hands-on experience to present a comprehensive analysis of verbal behavior and best teaching practices.

Dr. Mark Sundberg

The VB-MAPP Guide eBook is essential for conducting a detailed assessment and placement program designed for children with autism and other developmental disabilities. It lays out a structured framework that includes instructions for assessment, criteria for scoring, and charting instructions. This guide is not only a tool for assessment but also serves as a comprehensive manual for setting IEP goals and intervention programs. The utility of a single guide extends across multiple children, making it a versatile and cost-effective resource for educators and therapists.

Dr. Barbara Esch

The EESA-R Guide , helps teach and includes echoic skills assessment, program planning guide, and materials resource. Throughout, a behavioral training approach is explained, so users can design fun (reinforcing) and effective speech-language programs for their learners.

Dr. Patrick McGreevy & Troy Fry

The "Essential for Living E-Book (Eng)" is a comprehensive guidebook for individuals who work with children and adults with disabilities. It offers practical and evidence-based strategies to promote functional communication, skill acquisition, and positive behavior change. The book includes detailed information on teaching strategies, data collection, and analysis, as well as numerous examples and case studies to help the reader apply the strategies to real-life situations. Whether you are a parent, teacher, or therapist, this book will provide you with the knowledge and tools you need to make a meaningful difference in the lives of individuals with disabilities.