Brief Report: Using Behavioral Skills Training to Teach Skateboarding Skills to a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Erickson et al. (2016) used Behavioral Skills Training to teach skateboarding to one child with autism.

They broke the sport into small parts: pushing off, balancing, turning.

A multiple-baseline design showed each skill only rose after its own training began.

The child learned every skateboarding step and kept the skills in new places.

He even copied an untrained trick on his own.

BST made a hard, physical leisure skill doable for a kid with ASD.

Bord et al. (2017) ran a near-copy study with rollerblading and ice-skating.

Both papers show BST turns tricky movement skills into reachable goals for autistic kids.

Tucker et al. (2021) moved the same package into a pool and taught water safety to three boys.

Together these studies stretch BST from play to life-saving skills without losing its punch.

You already use BST for language or social targets. This paper says you can aim it at fun, athletic skills too. Next time a family wants their child to join peers at the skate park, you have a road map: model, practice, give feedback, and watch the board roll.