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Update: Back to school, Mencap online community, SEN Magazine, Podcast
My article ‘Creating autism-inclusive classrooms’ has been published in the Sept – Oct 19 edition of SEN Magazine.
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Video: Exciting news! New name, website and podcast
I am so excited to announce some exciting news! I have changed the name of the consultancy service and website from ‘ASD Teacher’ to ‘Autism Spectrum Teacher’. The main reason is due to myself feeling disconnected with the term ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) because of the word disorder. The word Read more…
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GUEST POST: Successful parent and teacher relationships for children with autism
How successful parent and teacher relationships impact children with autism and how to ensure the relationship is effective, from a parent and teacher perspective. Parent Perspective Written by Harshita Patel, parent and author of ‘Autism in the City’ It’s Good to Talk! The moment a child with special Read more…
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Using Widgit symbols to support ASD teaching
I recently wrote an article for Widgit, all about ‘Using symbols to support ASD Teaching‘. Widgit is a symbol set containing more than 17,000 symbols. Widgit symbols are clear, simple, colourful and display a single concept in a concise way, aimed to be understood by all abilities. Read more…
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Teaching autistic children how to play the keyboard using colours
If a child can match colours, then they can learn to play a melody on the keyboard! I love teaching music, and teaching how to play the keyboard is really fun. I cannot think of a single child who I have taught, that didn’t enjoy touching and listening to Read more…
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Sensory equipment for children with autism
As a teacher, I have used a range of sensory equipment in the classroom to support individual sensory needs. An Occupational Therapist (OT) is the professional who can support you to assess the sensory needs of a child in order to direct you to appropriate equipment to meet their Read more…
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Emotional regulation: Teaching autistic children to recognise and respond to their emotion
Emotional regulation is a key area of development. Being able to regulate emotions means being able to effectively identify and respond to an emotional experience. For children with autism, understanding their emotion and knowing how to appropriately respond to help themselves regulate, can be very challenging. This therefore needs to be Read more…
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Why the choice of language you use to communicate with an autistic child is so important
Each child with a diagnosis of autism will have varying abilities with language and communication. If you know more than one child with autism, you will know that their communication and language abilities and features will be very different. It is important to understand the difference between expressive and Read more…
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Engaging winter activity resources for children with autism
You will have probably noticed that children with autism can find attending to and concentrating during activities that they are not particularly interested in, very challenging! With developmental delay in the areas of joint attention, language, communication and social skills being core features of the diagnostic criteria for Autistic Spectrum Read more…
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Help children with autism manage changes leading up to Christmas
The winter holiday/ Christmas season can be one of the most challenging times of the year for children with autism. There are all sorts of unpredictable changes to usual daily life in the lead up to Christmas and New Years Day such as: changes to the environment at home, school Read more…