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Strategies for Working with Students with Autism
By Meaghan Montrose
The term Autism is really a very generic term that covers a spectrum or range of disorders. In general, the disorder affects a person’s social interaction and communication skills. Because of the varying degrees of the disorder, no two people diagnosed with Autism are exactly alike and therefore any strategies that work for one child may not have the same success on another.
Bearing this in mind, there are several strategies that can be useful when communicating with or teaching a student with Autism. The Successful Teaching Blog has provided many of these strategies in two posts on the topics of Autism and inclusion teaching.
The first post, Teaching Students with Autism, provides a list of 22 tips for working with Autistic students. One of the suggestions is to avoid using idioms like “open your ears”. Students with Autism tend to take each word literally and a statement like this leaves them confused and frustrated. The tips provided in this post are helpful for parents, teachers, and tutors.
The second post, Inclusion Ideas and Resources, is geared more towards teachers, but the information provided can be useful for parents as well in order to stay informed and active in their child’s schooling. This post provides suggestions on how to set up and modify lessons so that they will be successful in the inclusion setting. There are also website references of successful inclusion models.
Topics: Parenting, Study Skills and Learning Strategies | 2 Comments »
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Great special ed resources. Many of those are just good strategies for the mainstream classroom as well.
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Thanks for sharing this! I am truly honored!