ASAP Manuals
- ASAP Manual I – Assessment and Intervention – Provides an overview of ASAP, the assessments used to determine a child’s skills and goals, and an explanation of the interventions.
- ASAP Manual II – Intervention Activities and Other Resources – Provides suggested activities and supplemental resources for working on ASAP goals at school.
- ASAP Manual III – Parent Handbook – Parent handbook, designed to help parents understand the intervention and support it at home.
Description: This occurs when another person points to a distant object to request that object and the child looks at the distant object. Distant is defined as being out of reach. Responding to another person’s point by looking at a distant object shows that the child is beginning to understand that pointing can reference objects that are farther away and s/he is beginning to follow points as a line of sight. Also, the child is furthering his/her understanding that pointing is a form of communication.
The hierarchies of social communication visually represent the order in which these skills develop, and the corresponding ASAP goals and objectives to help children build each level of communication and play.
When one person purposefully coordinates his or her focus of attention with that of another person, we refer to the behavior as “joint attention.” Joint attention involves two people paying attention to the same thing, intentionally and for social reasons. Imagine, for example, that a teacher points to her desk and says to a child, “Look at that big apple.” The child looks at the place the teacher has pointed and sees the apple. In this situation, the teacher and the child have engaged in joint attention—that is, they shared attention to the apple on purpose.