Episode 328 - Water Safety Skills

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode on our website to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at [email protected] for further assistance. So, we already covered safety skills on land. But what about safety in the water? Drowning is one of the most common causes of death in children and those numbers increase significantly for autistic children. In this episode we review the research on how to teach water safety skills. Would you believe, a lot of them include teaching how to swim? That plus other skills that every child should learn and the most effective ways to teach them. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Martin, C. & Dillenberger, K. (2019).  Behavioural Water Safety and Autism: a Systematic Review of Interventions. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 6, 356-366. doi: 10.1007/s40489-019-00166-x Levy, K. M., Ainsleigh, S. A., & Hunsinger-Harris, M. L. (2017). Let's go under! Teaching Water Safety Skills using a behavioral treatment package. Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 52, 186-193. doi: 10.1177/215416471705200208 Tucker, M. & Ingvarsson, E. (2021). Teaching water safety skills to children with autism spectrum disorders. Behavioral Interventions, 36, 535-549. doi: 10.1002/bin.1791