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| What people tell us about our Social Skills Teaching Program |
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We started with  when they only had about two DVDs available. Since then, they have added many new products including the About Me and You series and the Look! Listen! I can do it! series. These two programs are available in a curriculum bundle which, I recommend to any parent that does not have an at home program in place. It is also a great tool to bring to your district IEP meeting, when requesting services such ABA. Many schools still do not know what an appropriate program for autism looks like. The curriculum bundle can definitely help with that. |
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| - Autism In Autumn.Com |
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We have been using a video modeling tool, with our students for about 6 years. We have found video modeling an effective teaching strategy for children with autism, speech and language delays and developmental delays. The teachers use this very comprehensive video to model language, motor skills, life skills, self-help skills, academic skills, functional skills and social skills. The teachers find the videos integrate with supports of other interventions including ABA, VB and Speech, Occupational and Physical therapy. One of our teachers saw the value of the videos and she aligned the skills in the video with the behavioral programs from the book, "Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism." We use the book in setting up programs for our 1:1 and workstations.
has received endorsements from the National Autism Association, Talk About Curing Autism and the publisher of ABLLS-R, James Partington, to name a few.
We use it and love it! Every teacher in our site uses the video. I did a workshop on how to use the video as a tool for instruction. |
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| - Anita Katz, NY City Schools, PS 75Q224 |
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| After watching the first video just a few times, my non-verbal daughter began saying 'hi' to the children on TV! These videos offer a new way of learning. Incorporating ABA and Verbal Behavior techniques, videos are motivating, educational and fun to watch! |
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| - Wendy Fournier, President, National Autism Association (NAA) |
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| We've been watching videos with our twin ASD boys for 2 years now. We even make our own [videos] with family members and friends. I [have] never liked the video recorder [before]. It is now my best friend and [accompanies me] on every outing, be it exciting or routine. The children learn so much this way, it's hard to quantify, but it's definitely measurable. We love Mary Beth! |
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| - Mary Coasby, Evanston, IL |
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| My daughter Hayley loves these videos. She has all of them. She now initiates playing a game of Duck, Duck, Goose with her peers. She loves to play Simon Says. At first it was real repetitive and hard to deter her away from the sequence, but now she tolerates changing the pattern. She has gained a lot of knowledge from them, and she has been able to expand her language and anwer questions that are presented on the video. She does script alot from the videos, however, I am very thankful and pleased she is talking and using language. She is able to draw all the pictures on her own from the drawing scenes. I am thankful to MaryBeth for all her hard work in developing these videos. But above all, I am thankful to God for the marvelous things He is doing in Hayley. |
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| - Lisa Barcklow, January 12, 2007 |
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I have twin boys with PDD-NOS who are two. In the last month or so, [one of my sons] has bloomed with words and phrases from your videos. I have been shocked before, but nothing compared to seeing him [PLAY] 'Simon Say's' last weekend while quietly watching [Mary Beth] and the children on video. [My other son] gets so excited when I put on the video - he says, blocks, ball, and many other words at appropriate times while watching [the videos]. Both boys are truly blossoming with vocabulary from your videos.
I am also very involved in the DAN! Protocol and I don't know exactly what is working, nor do I care. I know that my boys are both getting better and I owe a great deal to your tenacity in making these videos available to the public. Thank you from the bottom of my desperate heart. |
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| - Claudia Linsely, New Jersey |
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| Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! The first video was great! The second is fantastic. My daughter began saying everything the children on the video were saying right away. Thanks again for helping [her] talk and understand more." |
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| - Roxanne Faneli, Whitestone, New York |
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| I have just ordered Volume 2. I knew that when my son brought me his juice this past week and told me that, "Mary Beth said I can have that juice (pointing to the orange punch) not this one (pointing to his cup)" that it was time to order the next video. Socialization is our last boundary and we are finished with autism. God is so good. May he bless you for the welcoming us into your life and letting our children watch your children interact! Thanks! |
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| - Leanne Pitts, North Carolina |
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| I am from Australia. My five year old Autistic son and 2.5 year old love volume 1 and 2.What my children enjoy the most are the children interacting. It confirms my opinion that children learn from children. This especially applies to my older son and his need to copy others. In adult life we often speak too fast and our speech becomes a blur to children. The DVDs has an adult (and older children) speaking slowly and clearly. Please develop more DVD's especially ones that teach table manners and kindness and thought for others. |
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| - Sandra F. |
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| Well, you've done it once again. I ordered the School Days DVD a few weeks ago and my children both love it. I took it on an airplane ride and I don't think either one of them looked up from the DVD player the whole time we were on the airplane. As soon as it was over, they asked to watch it again. Thank you again for all your hard work and dedication. I tell everyone I can about your videos and the success I've had with them. |
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| - Susan Levine, West Orange, New Jersey |
