AYM has utilized the ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis) Curriculum developed by Adrienne Robek, Ph.D, BCBA-D referenced in the “Tools For Professionals” from Autism Speaks. “Dr. Robeks Autism ABA Curriculum encompasses more than 170 educational programs, divided into 12 categories. Each category aims to develop a specific set of skills by applying distinct methodologies. Each program has been tested in actual therapy environments, and its effectiveness has been thoroughly established.”
Accelerating Young Minds has aligned 150+ of its e-Learning activities to 9 out of the 12 categories in the curriculum. The AYM multimodal approach often aligns with a number of categories with a single activity. For this reason, you will see some activities duplicated within different categories.
1 to 1 Correspondence
AYM Kickstart
Counting Animals.
*Meaningful Memory & Number Sense
AYM Level-1
The child identifies numbers & counts objects in pictures.
*Number Sense
Child guesses number of Objects in the picture.
*Estimating & Number Sense
Child adds by using images.
*Conceptual understanding
Capital Letter Identification
AYM Level-1
Teaches Upper case letters.
*Speech Sound Discrimination & Visual Matching
Initial Consonant Sounds
AYM Level-1
Teaches consonant sounds.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
Teaches consonant sounds in words-beginning and ending.
*Visual Matching & Speech Sound Discrimination
Sight Words
AYM Level-1
Both activities teach sight words.
*Reading & Visual-Auditory Learning
AYM Level-2
The student must select correctly spelled sight words from a matrix.
The child selects the correctly spelled sight words and then uses them in a sentence.
Tracing Numbers
AYM Level-1
Teaches numbers 1-10 through tracing and identification.
*Conceptual understanding
Tracing Lowercase Letters
AYM Level-1
Teaches alphabet a-m through tracing and identification.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
Teaches alphabet n-z through tracing and identification.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
Letter Sounds
AYM Kickstart
Making words with letter sounds.
*Word fluency & Speech Sound Discrimination
Learning letter sounds.
*Word fluency Phonetic, Coding Speech & Sound Discrimination
The child learns letter sounds as they find animals.
*Deductive Reasoning & Naming Facility
Children learn letter sounds as they find objects.
*Deductive Reasoning & Naming Facility
AYM Level-1
Short and Long Vowel Use.
*Speech Sound Discrimination & Visual-Auditory Learning
Three Letter Words
AYM Kick Start
The child learns letter sounds as they find animals.
*Deductive Reasoning & Naming Facility
Children learn letter sounds as they find objects.
*Deductive Reasoning & Naming Facility
AYM Level-1
Making stated words by choosing letters; 3 & 4 letter words.
*Sound Blending
Learning letter sounds.
*Word fluency Phonetic Coding Speech & Sound Discrimination
Telling Time
AYM Kick Start
The child chooses if things happen during the day or during the night.
*Conceptual understanding & Meaningful Memory
AYM Level-1
The child learns about morning, afternoon and evenings as they relate to things done at those times of day or night.
AYM Level-2
The child answers questions about what time the analog clock shows and makes the time on an analog clock that is asked for.
Number Identification
AYM Kick Start
The child learns the numbers 1-5. The child learns the numbers 6-10.
*Chinking Memory
The child learns the numbers 11-15.
*Chinking Memory
Lowercase Letter Identification
AYM Kickstart
The child sings the Alphabet Song while clicking letters.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
Learning the letters a-m.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
Learning the letters n-z.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
Child helps the train move forward by selecting letters of their choice.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
The child selects the letter requested.
*Meaningful Memory
Coloring alphabet letters a-m.
*Chinking Memory & Speech Sound Discrimination
Coloring alphabet letters n-z.
*Chinking Memory & Speech Sound Discrimination Number Identification
Word Groups
AYM Kick Start
Making words with letter sounds.
*Word fluency & Speech Sound Discrimination
AYM Level-1
Teaches Blends.
*Sound Blending & Listening Comprehension
Teaches Blends.
*Listening Comprehension & Sound Blending
Teaches word families using word completion.
*Sound Blending & Incomplete words
AYM Level-2
The child uses diphthongs to complete words.
Child finishes words that belong in word
families.
Child finishes words that belong in word
families.
Action words are taught and used in sentences.
Activity Schedule
AYM Level-1
The student learns about calendars, must name the days of the week and the months of a year, answer questions about the seasons.
*Sequential Reasoning Temporal tracking
Story Time
AYM Level-1
The child hears a story about animals then finds the adult & baby names for them.
*Naming Facility & Memory for names
The child is shown pictures & told a story, the child then selects pictures of things seen (not said).
*Semantic Reasoning & Visual Spatial Skills
Taking Objects from Others
AYM Level-1
Questions about Attitudes and Behavior are asked.
Tracking Items
AYM Kick Start
The child sings along to a song about cheeseburgers.
*Listening Comprehension & Temporal Tracking
The child sings along to a song about friends.
*Listening Comprehension & Temporal Tracking
Short Vowel Use.
*Listening Comprehension & Temporal Tracking
Long Vowel Use.
*Listening Comprehension & Temporal Tracking
The student learns about calendars, must name the days of the week and the months of a year, answer questions about the seasons.
*Sequential Reasoning Temporal tracking
Waiting
AYM Levels 1-3
All activities assist children with waiting as the child must wait to hear the instructions before he can play each activity.
Visual Discrimination
AYM Kick Start
Learning Uppercase letters A-Z.
*Visual Matching & Chinking Memory
Child finds letters on balloons.
*Visual Matching
Matching words.
*Visual Matching & Flexibility of Closure
Child fishes for matching shapes.
*Symbolic classifications & Conceptual understanding
Completing puzzles.
*Spatial Relations & Visual Closure
AYM Level-1
Completing Puzzles of real-world objects.
*Inductive Reasoning, Visual-Spatial & Skills Imagery
Teaches Uppercase letters.
*Speech Sound Discrimination & Visual Matching
The child chooses a picture that matches a picture that is being sketched.
*Visual Closure, Visualization & Imagery
Matching a silhouette with an image.
*Flexibility of Closure, Visual Information processing & Visual Matching
AYM Level-2
The child places the correct vowel on pictures and sorts the vowels into the correct category.
Child finds the group of coins that add up to the amount shown.
Note: All AYM activities require fine motor skills to be exercised by requiring the child to either use the mouse to play all our activities on a computer or their finger, on a touch screen device.
Coloring Shapes and Coloring
AYM Kick Start
The child can color 2 pictures of their choice.
*Procedural Knowledge
Coloring alphabet letters a-m.
*Chinking Memory & Speech Sound Discrimination
Coloring alphabet letters n-z.
*Chinking Memory & Speech Sound Discrimination
The child completes color by numbers/letters.
*Number Sense & Visual Closure
AYM Level-1
Matching colors to paint a picture.
*Visual Memory
Crossing Midline
AYM Level-2
Child matches words to their description or definition through crossing midline.
Painting
AYM Kick Start
The child can color 2 pictures of their choice.
*Procedural Knowledge
Animal ID
AYM Level Kick Start
The child learns letter sounds as they find animals.
*Deductive Reasoning & Naming Facility
AYM Level-1
A sound is played & child clicks the matching animal, they also hear the letter sound.
*Memory for Sound Patterns & Sound Localization
The child hears a story about animals then finds the adult & baby names for them.
*Naming Facility & Memory for names
Child matches eyes to animal & then identifies the new picture in a set.
*Inductive Reasoning & Visual Closure
AYM Level-2
The child identifies animals hidden in nature.
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
Auditory Color Identification
AYM Level Kick Start
The child selects items that are the same color.
*Semantic Reasoning & Symbolic classifications
The child can color 2 pictures of their choice.
*Procedural Knowledge
Auditory ID
AYM Level Kick Start
The child discovers the rhyming word for the item pictured.
*Phonetic Coding
Choosing the rhyming words
*Meaningful Memory & Speech Sound Discrimination
AYM Level-1
A sound is played & child clicks the matching animal, they also hear the letter sound.
*Memory for Sound Patterns & Sound Localization
Identifying sounds of Animals, tools, bubbles, instruments etc.
*Memory for Sound Patterns & Hearing and Speech Threshold Factors
The child plays a version of Go-Fish with phonics.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
Teaches Rhyming words.
*Phonetic Coding & Meaningful Memory
Rhyming words.
*Meaningful Memory & Phonetic Coding
AYM Level-2
The child identifies rhyming word pictures from a set of 6.
The child hears a sound and must identify what word represents that sound.
Body Part Identification on others
AYM Level Kick Start
Child finds parts of the body and identifies what that part does.
*Symbolic classifications & Science subjects
Body Part Identification
AYM Level Kick Start
Child finds parts of the body and identifies what that part does.
*Symbolic classifications & Science subjects
Color Identification
AYM Level Kick Start
The child selects items that are the same color.
*Semantic Reasoning & Symbolic classifications
AYM Level-1
Matching colors to paint a picture.
*Visual Memory
Community Helpers
AYM Level Kick Start
The child answers questions on stranger safety.
*Sequential Reasoning & Procedural Knowledge
Emotion ID
AYM Level Kick Start
The child identifies the best answer from social/ emotional questions.
*Attitudes and Behavior & Semantic Reasoning
AYM Level-2
The child answers questions about morals and behaviors and hears the consequence of each choice.
Questions about Attitudes and Behavior are asked.
Child answers questions based on behavior and morals.
Identification by Function
AYM Level Kick Start
The child identifies position.
*Naming Facility & Spatial Relations
The child identifies different locations in their world, from home to outer space.
*Meaningful Memory & Science Subjects
AYM Level-1
Cover, pages, words in a book & identification of signs in the environment.
*Temporal tracking & Listening Comprehension
AYM Level-2
The child answers questions about instruments after learning all about them.
Items are presented and the child must identify the material of which the item is made.
Prepositions
AYM Level-2
The child sees an image and is asked to use a preposition to identify the placement of specific items.
Responding to Name
AYM Level Kick Start
Child traces his or her name.
*Procedural Knowledge
Reinforcer Identification
AYM Levels-Kick Start- Level-2
All of the AYM activities offer reinforcers/praise/encouragement as they play each activity.
Identification of Actions
AYM Level-2
Questions about Attitudes and Behavior are asked.
Identification of Objects when Described
AYM Level-1
The child selects items that have specific attributes.
*Semantic Reasoning & Chinking memory
AYM Level-2
The child is given clues and asked to identify the object.
Imaginative Play
AYM Level Kick Start
The child identifies the best answer from social/ emotional questions.
*Attitudes and Behavior & Semantic Reasoning
AYM Level-2
The child answers questions about how they feel about themselves and others.
The child answers questions about morals and behaviors and hears the consequence of each choice.
Matching Sounds
AYM Level-1
The child hears a sound and must identify what the word that represents that sound.
My or Your
AYM Level-2
Questions about Attitudes and Behavior are asked.
Object Identification
AYM Level Kick Start
Children learn letter sounds as they find objects.
*Deductive Reasoning & Naming Facility
One Step Instructions
All AYM activities provide one-step instructions when the question is asked for them to answer.
Opposites
AYM Level Kick Start
Discovering opposites.
*Analogical Reasoning & Picture Recognition
AYM Level-2
Child deciphers between living and non-living items.
Pointing to Pictures in Books
AYM Level-1
Cover, pages, words in a book & identification of signs in the environment.
*Temporal tracking & Listening Comprehension
Two Step Instructions
All AYM activities provide two-step (or more) instructions
Shape Identification
AYM Level-1
The child chooses a picture that matches a dollar bill origami.
*Imagery & Visual Matching
Child extends patterns of pictures and identifies shapes in real-world images.
*Geometry & Visualization
Picture Identification
AYM Level Kick Start
The child learns letter sounds as they find pictures of animals.
*Deductive Reasoning & Naming Facility
Children learn letter sounds as they find pictures of objects.
*Deductive Reasoning & Naming Facility
AYM Level-1
The child selects a moving picture when a word is called out.
*Naming Facility & Memory for Names
AYM Level-2
The child identifies animals hidden in nature.
Categories
AYM Kick Start
The child puts a picture into given categories: air, land, and water.
*Symbolic classifications & Meaningful Memory
AYM Level-1
The child selects items that fit into specific categories.
*Naming Facility
Child categorizes facts that are part of a given fact family.
*Conceptual understanding
Child categorizes items (near/far) etc.
*Symbolic classification,s Visual Spatial Memory & Meaningful Memory
AYM Level-2
Nouns with their pictures are classified into their Categories.
The child quickly chooses images that fit in a given category.
The student chooses the correct image based on a category.
Child categorizes words into a themed picture.
Child classifies words into categories.
Child finds shapes that fit into specific categories tasked for. E.g. find all the shapes that have 4 sides.
Sequencing
AYM Level Kick Start
Children Learn to type letters.
*Free Recall & Visual Sequential Ability
Follow the numbers 1 -15 to get to the end of the maze.
*Flexibility of Closure & Visual Sequential Ability
The child answers questions on stranger safety.
*Sequential Reasoning & Procedural Knowledge
AYM Level-1
Long Vowel Use & Short Vowel Use.
*Speech Sound Discrimination & Sequential Reasoning
Identify how many syllables a stated word has.
*Sequential Reasoning & Word fluency
Children use letters to spell 3, 4, letter words (letters are shown on lines).
*Visual Sequential Ability & Incomplete words
Tests speed of words read.
*Sequential Reasoning & Reading
Child matches pictures from our history to photos of that item in modern times.
*Sequential Reasoning
Child orders pictures from order specified in stories.
*Free Recall Visual & Sequential Ability
Child extends more complicated patterns.
*Sequential Reasoning, Imagery & Inductive Reasoning
The student learns about calendars, must name the days of the week and the months of a year, answer questions about the seasons.
*Sequential Reasoning Temporal tracking
AYM Level-2
Child types missing numbers into the grid.
Matching Colors
AYM Kick Start
The child selects items that are the same color.
*Semantic Reasoning & Symbolic classifications
AYM Level-1
Matching colors to paint a picture.
*Visual Memory
Matching Identical Objects
AYM Kick Start
The child learns about coins. Matches identical coins.
*Symbolic classifications & Conceptual understanding
Matching identical words.
*Visual Matching & Flexibility of Closure
Counting and matching identical Animals.
*Meaningful Memory & Number Sense
AYM Level-1
The child chooses a picture that matches the identical picture that is being sketched.
*Visual Closure, Visualization & Imagery
Matching to Sample
AYM Level-1
The child must match sketches and drawings to real life photos.
*Semantic Reasoning & Visual Matching
The child chooses a picture that matches the identical picture that is being sketched.
*Visual Closure, Visualization & Imagery
Child extends patterns of pictures and identifies shapes in real-world images.
*Geometry & Visualization
Child extends more complicated patterns.
*Sequential Reasoning, Imagery & Inductive Reasoning
Matching Picture to Object
AYM Level-1
The child chooses a picture that matches a dollar bill origami.
*Imagery & Visual Matching
Child extends patterns of pictures and identifies shapes in real-world images.
*Geometry & Visualization
The child chooses a picture that matches the identical picture that is being sketched.
*Visual Closure, Visualization & Imagery
The child must match sketches and drawings to real life photos.
*Semantic Reasoning & Visual Matching
Patterns
AYM Level Kick Start
Child finishes patterns with apples.
*Inductive Reasoning & Flexibility of Closure
Child extends simple patterns.
*Inductive Reasoning & Spatial visualization
Child finishes the rhythmic pattern using given instruments.
*Hearing and Speech Threshold Factors
AYM Level-1
Child extends more complicated patterns.
*Sequential Reasoning, Imagery & Inductive Reasoning
Child extends patterns of pictures and identifies shapes in real-world images.
*Geometry & Visualization
Matching Pictures
AYM Level-1
Child extends patterns of pictures and identifies shapes in real-world images.
*Geometry & Visualization
The child must match sketches and drawings to real life photos.
*Semantic Reasoning & Visual Matching
Matching Shapes
AYM Kick Start
Child fishes for matching shapes.
*Symbolic classifications & Conceptual understanding
AYM Level-1
Child extends patterns of pictures and identifies shapes in real-world images.
*Geometry & Visualization
Matching Object to Picture
AYM Level-1
The child chooses a picture that matches a dollar bill origami.
*Imagery & Visual Matching
Child extends patterns of pictures and identifies shapes in real-world images.
*Geometry & Visualization
The child chooses a picture that matches the identical picture that is being sketched.
*Visual Closure, Visualization & Imagery
The child must match sketches and drawings to real life photos.
*Semantic Reasoning & Visual Matching
Sorting
AYM Level Kick Start
The child learns about coins and sorts our the identical coins that match.
*Symbolic classifications & Conceptual understanding
The child selects and sorts the items that are the same color.
*Semantic Reasoning & Symbolic classifications
Child finds and sorts the object in the group that does not belong.
*Analogical Reasoning & Symbolic classifications
The child chooses and sorts things that happen during the day or during the night.
*Conceptual understanding & Meaningful Memory
The child chooses and sorts the correct weather choice based on the given picture.
*Symbolic classifications & Meaningful Memory
The child identifies and sorts pictures that belong in each season.
*Memory for Names & Symbolic classifications
Child sorts picture into given categories: air, land, and water.
*Symbolic classifications & Meaningful Memory
AYM Level-1
Child connects dots A-Z, then Alphabetizes letters & pictures.
*Speech Sound Discrimination & Semantic Reasoning
Child sorts pictures/words into the correct location.
*Deductive Reasoning, Chinking memory & Picture Recognition
The child identifies and sorts odd and even numbers.
*Number Sense & Weights and measures
Six pictures are shown and the student is asked to choose the two pictures that go together.
AYM Level-2
Child matches and sorts opposite items.
The child places the correct vowel on pictures and sorts the vowels into the correct category.
Note: All activities give child instructions with an example of what the activity will require of them to participate, therefore, asking the child to imitate the example given as they play each activity.
Coloring Shapes & Coloring
AYM Level-1
Child copies block patterns shown on screen.
*Symbolic classifications & Spatial visualization
Motor imitation of fixed and moving positions
AYM Level-1
Teaches long vowel sounds. Presents and then asks the child to sign each vowel letter.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
Yes or No
AYM Level Kick Start
Child answers Yes, No, Maybe so questions about how they view certain things.
*Attitudes and Behavior & Visual-Auditory Learning
AYM Level-1
Child answers Yes or No questions about things they like or don’t like.
*Listening Comprehension
AYM Level-2
Child answers Yes, No, Maybe So questions about how they feel about learning.
Animal Sounds
AYM Level-1
A sound is played & child clicks the matching animal, they also hear the letter sound.
*Memory for Sound Patterns & Sound Localization
Calendar Skills
The student learns about calendars, must name the days of the week and the months of a year, answer questions about the seasons.
*Sequential Reasoning Temporal tracking
AYM Level-2
Children learn about the months of the year and are asked questions about each month.
Labeling Categories
AYM Level-1
The child selects items that fit into specific categories.
*Naming Facility
Child categorizes items (near/far) etc.
*Symbolic classifications Visual Spatial Memory & Meaningful Memory
AYM Level-2
Nouns with their pictures are classified into their Categories.
Child categorizes words into a themed picture.
Child classifies words into categories.
Function of Objects
AYM Level-Kick Start
The child chooses between two pictures, one being a need and one being a want.
AYM Level-1
Identifying sounds of Animals, tools, bubbles, instruments etc.
*Memory for Sound Patterns & Hearing and Speech Threshold Factors
Kids are asked various questions regarding Left hand from Right.
*Spatial Relations, Visual Spatial Skills & Semantic Reasoning
Cover, pages, words in a book & identification of signs in the environment.
*Temporal tracking & Listening Comprehension
AYM Level-2
The child is given clues and asked to identify the object.
I See
AYM Level-1
The child is shown pictures & told a story, the child then selects pictures of things seen (not said).
*Semantic Reasoning & Visual Spatial Skills
AYM Level-2
The child identifies animals hidden in nature.
The child sees a picture for a short time and then answers 3 questions about the image.
Why Questions
AYM Level-1
The child is shown pictures & told a story, child then selects pictures of things seen (not said)
AYM Level-2
The child is given clues and asked to identify the object.
The child is asked questions and must decide what is happening what has happened.
What Doesn’t Belong
AYM Level Kick Start
Child finds the object in the group that does not belong.
* Analogical Reasoning & Symbolic classifications
Social Questions
AYM Level Kick Start
The child identifies the best answer from social/ emotional questions.
*Attitudes and Behavior & Semantic Reasoning
Function of Body Parts
AYM Level Kick Start
Child finds parts of the body and identifies what that part does.
*Symbolic classifications & Science subjects
Eliciting Adjectives
AYM Level-2
The child uses adjectives to describe items in images, they also use images to describe words.
I Don’t Know
AYM Level-1
The child decides whether a phrase or situation is true or make-believe.
*Analogical Reasoning & Symbolic classification
AYM Level-2
Questions about Attitudes and Behavior are asked.
Songs
AYM Level Kick Start
The child sings the Alphabet Song while clicking letters.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
The child sings along to a song about cheeseburgers.
*Listening Comprehension & Temporal Tracking
The child sings along to a song about friends.
*Visual-Auditory Learning & Temporal Tracking
AYM Level-2
The child sings the alphabet song and clicks letters.
*Speech Sound Discrimination
A fun song about friends plays and then the child must answer questions about the song.
*Associative Memory & Visual-Auditory Learning
A fun song about cheeseburgers plays and then the child must answer questions about the song.
*Associative Memory & Visual-Auditory Learning
I Spy
AYM Level-2
The child identifies animals hidden in nature.
Intraverbals Through Questions
AYM Level Kick Start
The child is asked a series of questions about how they view certain things.
*Attitudes and Behavior & Visual-Auditory Learning
AYM Level-1
The child answers questions about things they like or don’t like.
*Listening Comprehension
The child answers questions about their opinions.
*Sequential Reasoning
AYM Level-2
The child answers questions about how they feel about themselves and others.
Labeling Body Parts
AYM Level Kick Start
Child finds parts of the body and identifies what that part does.
*Symbolic classifications & Science subjects
Labeling Objects when Described
AYM Level-1
Cover, pages, words in a book & identification of signs in the environment.
*Temporal tracking & Listening Comprehension
Labeling Capital Letters
AYM Level-1
Teaches Upper case letters.
*Speech Sound Discrimination & Visual Matching
Blending Consonants
AYM Level-1
Teaches Blends.
*Sound Blending & Listening Comprehension
Teaches Blends.
*Sound Blending & Listening Comprehension
AYM Level-2
The child must select words with specific blends to take their cars to the gas station.
The child completes words and sentences with correct r-controlled vowel blends.
Labeling Pictures
AYM Kick Start, AYM Level-1, and AYM Level-2
Multiple activities through AYM require labeling of pictures
Labeling Action Pictures
AYM Level Kick Start
The child chooses correct weather choice based on the given picture.
*Symbolic classifications & Meaningful Memory
Child finds parts of the body and identifies what that part does.
*Symbolic classifications & Science subjects
Labeling Lowercase Letters
The child identifies lower case letters.
* Speech Sound Discrimination & Visual Memory
Color Labeling
AYM Level-1
The child identifies the color in the picture.
*Semantic Reasoning, Visual Information processing & Geometry
Describing Objects
AYM Level-2
The child uses adjectives to describe items in images, they also use images to describe words.
Pointing
AYM Level Kick Start
All Kickstart activities are available on hand-held devices which will prompt children to point throughout each activity
Labeling Numbers
AYM Level Kick Start
Selecting Numbers 1-10.
*Meaningful Memory & Conceptual understanding
Labeling Animals
AYM Level-1
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Memory for Words
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Memory for Words
The child hears a story about animals then finds the adult & baby names for them.
*Naming Facility& Memory for names
AYM Level-2
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
Object Labeling
AYM Level-1
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Memory for Words
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Memory for Words
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Visual-Auditory & Learning Memory for Words
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Memory for Words
AYM Level-2
Items are presented and the child must identify and label the material of which the item is made.
Child answers questions and labels items and things about the world they live in.
Student places correct singular or plural words on pictures.
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Memory for Words
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Memory for Words
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Memory for Words
The child chooses the correct word for the picture shown.
*Memory for Words