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In the Use Their Interest strategy, it’s important to incorporate your child’s passions and hobbies into the lessons you’re trying to teach. By working their interests into your teaching goals, you can make the learning process more engaging and enjoyable for your child.
Watch the below videos that illustrate this strategy and make sure to download the supporting PDF workbook.
Warm up question to ponder: Do you learn faster when it’s about things that you love? Are you able to focus longer when it concerns things you desire? Are you more successful when you’re interested?
Teach Using What They Love
An Interest Can Be A Behavior
Use What They Like
Search For The Spark
Teach Using What They Love
Watch Lynette takes advantage of what Chris loves to promote interaction and communication. Learn how you can incorporate your teachings with their interests.
An Interest Can Be A Behavior
As we explain the strategy of using one’s interest, watch this video to understand how an interest can also be a behavior of theirs.
Use What They Like
This video illustrates why it’s important to disregard all the disability myths you may have and instead focus on their interests. It’s by using what they like that a connection is created and maintained.
This video also shows the technique of “START and STOP THE FUN” that you can use to foster interaction and communication.
Search For The Spark
Watch how Lynette continually tries to find the thing he is interested in that will be the spark in his eyes.
Lesson Takeaways
- Incorporate what they love into what you’re trying to teach
- Work desires in while you add a teaching depending on your goals
- Respect space, discover your child once you forget about these myths
- Stopping and playing is the teaching tool: when you come to me, were connected and then things happen. Stop and start the fun as your rhythm to create this desired come to me situation so you can teach and bond and play
- Search for the spark that will enable more communication and openness to learn
- An interest can be a behavior: copy them
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