STAR Program 2nd Edition

The STAR Program (Strategies for Teaching based on Autism Research) is a comprehensive, three level program based on Applied Behavioral Analysis, using Discrete Trial (DT), Pivotal Response (PRT), and Functional Routine (FR) training strategies. The program has been shown to help students with autism and other developmental disabilities master receptive, expressive, and spontaneous language; functional skills; pre-academic concepts; and play and social interaction concepts.

Benefits include:

• Applied Behavioral Analysis forms the instructional base of this comprehensive program.
• Educators, paraprofessionals, SLPs, and parents will find the STAR program easy to implement.
• Lessons plans can be easily tailored to meet the needs of individual students.
• Student Learning Profiles enable educators to plan lessons for each student and document progress for IFSPs and IEPs.
• The manipulatives and blackline masters enable educators to use their time teaching rather than gathering materials.
• The Program Manual describes how to implement the research-based teaching techniques of Discreet Trial Training, Pivotal Response Training, and Functional Routines.
• The program meets the needs of students at various developmental levels with the three levels of the STAR Program.

Now in the second edition, The STAR Program, has been improved and enhanced based on the latest research on the evidence-based practices, feedback from professionals’ implementation and training on the program, and the authors’ knowledge gained from experiences over the last ten years.

Level 1 Learning Goals

• understand basic language concepts
• Start to use verbal language to request desires
• Follow simple routines such as arrival to an activity area, departure from an activity area, circle time, or snack time
• Begin to participate in independent constructive play

Level 2 Learning Goals

• Follow 2-step commands
• Use multiple words to make requests
• Use simple verbs such as “sleeping, eating and crying”
• Learn the names of other children
• Play interactively
• Identify numbers, letters, and a few sight words
• Answer “wh” questions

Level 3 Learning Goals

• Expand vocabulary and phrase length
• Use prepositions and pronouns
• Read more functional sight words
• Write with dictation and from memory
• Read a simple story in a book
• Identify and use money
• Tell time and use this skill with their classroom schedule
• Add and subtract one digit numbers
• Follow more complex routines such as computer use, transitioning between locations and large group activities in and out of the classroom
• Participate in school routines such as music, PE, lunch, and recess
• Play interactively with peers

Complete Kits include:

• Program Manual
• Completely revised with a Getting Started chapter
• 288 pages, spiral 8.5” x 11”, ©2015
• Lesson Folders
• Improvements using DT and PRT strategies
• Inclusion of the task analysis for each functional routine on the lesson folder
• Lesson plans easily tailored to individual needs
• Blackline Master Book and CD
• Fidelity of Implementation Checklist
• Revised data form for PRT
• Reminder posters for staff to use when implementing strategies
• Forms for designing Classroom Schedules to implement the STAR Program
• Detailed instructions for completing the forms
• Student Learning Profiles
• Enable educators to plan lessons and document progress for IFSPs and IEPs
• New lesson targets
• Improvements for ease of use
• Cards
• Colorful flashcards and photo cards to support lesson objectives
• Manipulatives
• All the objects needed for lessons
• AND everything you need to implement the program with fidelity