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.
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…
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…
Imagine a typical classroom, what can you see and hear? It may be very noisy, have lots of furniture and equipment crammed into small spaces, perhaps a bit of clutter and bright and colourful displays on every available wall space! This can often be very overwhelming and distracting for Read more…