Classroom Resources

Links checked 7-7-09

1. Autism and Instruction Methods That Work Best in School - instruction strategies that have been known to help children in the classroom.
2. Autism Teaching Tools - "a resource to help parents and professionals find specific tools and teaching tips for working with learners with autistic spectrum disorders" Select the topics from the right side of the page.
3. Effective strategies for teaching children with autism spectrum disorders - 10 classroom strategies for teachers assisting students with autism spectrum disorders.
4. An Introduction to the Discrete Trial - A teaching method for a number of the behaviorally-based interventions used in teaching children with autism.
5. Preparing the School for Your Child with Autism - Five things teachers need to know; how to prepare your classroom to assist students with autism spectrum disorders.
6. Six Principles Of Autistic Interaction - Autistic individuals, if allowed to interact with other autistic individuals, develop complex friendships that are based on social rules that are unique to autistic relationships.
7. Social Skills for Autism - Suggestions for classroom and home to help students learn hygiene and social skills.
8. Suggestions for IEP goals for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders - Many ideas to help create IEP goals for students with autism spectrum disorders.
9. Teaching children with autism appropriate play in unsupervised environments using a self-management treatment package. - A C Stahmer and L Schreibman; very interesting article discussing a self-management treatment package to teach 3 children with autism.
10. Teaching students with autism - This digest provides an overview of considerations for teaching students with autism.
11. Visual Supports - Creating Picture Exchange Symbols to encourage reading in every child, and pairing words in a system might help hasten acquisition of those printed words.
12. Visual Timetables - Here is an idea from a special education teacher, Nicole Mays, in Winder, GA.teaching a group of elementary school aged students who all have moderate to severe autism.