Here is some advice on understanding, interacting with and playing with your child with autism, from my experience of being a teacher for children with autism and complex needs. Always show or model to the child what you want him/her to do, when you ask them to do something Read more…
Adem Cetindemar, an experienced teacher, discuss what emotional regulation means, the importance of teaching regulating strategies to autistic students and the impact this can have on learning and everyday life.
There are lots of effective strategies that can really help children with autism including environmental and sensory input changes, adapting our communication, consistency, organisation, emotional regulation development, enhancing social interaction skills, understanding behaviour, using transition supports, visually structuring lessons and tasks as well as ensuring learning is engaging and exciting. In this episode I discuss these themes and how we can implement these strategies to help our autistic students achieve and be successful.
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…
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…
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…
I love Christmas songs!! Here is a free interactive PowerPoint choice board that links straight to Christmas songs on YouTube. When the image is pressed, it opens the video on YouTube. This allows the child/ children to make a choice from a selection of songs. This can be great in a Read more…
Like any abstract theme, the concept of ‘like’ and ‘don’t like’ can sometimes be challenging for children with autism to understand. Therefore, it is important to ensure a child really understands what it means to ‘like’ something. A successful strategy is to model the language at the exact time the child Read more…
Here is a free interactive choice board that links straight to songs on YouTube. The songs are some of the favourites of primary aged children I have taught. These interactive choice boards are easy to make and amend in a program such as Microsoft PowerPoint by creating ‘hyperlinks’ to a Read more…
In order to be ready to learn, children must be regulated and have their physical, sensory and emotional needs met. Let’s face it, a child is not going to learn anything if they are, for example: Over stimulated Under stimulated Very tired/ hungry/ thirsty Needs the toilet If a Read more…