If you have any tips you have come across working with autistic students, please share. Comprehension always seems to be the toughest part for them.
Also if you have any resources or tips on helping the classroom teacher embrace the students special needs, please share that too!
A few of my thoughts/tips
I attended an Autism workshop in Houston at the Sped conference in May and found this helpful resource:
"The New Social Story Book" by Carol Gray. It has pre-made social stories with an index of skills. There is a CD that goes with it where you can down load and change the story to insert the students name, school or more personal issue the student needs to face. You can also add picture if you would like. I am starting to use this to cover simple things like: what to do when the teacher helps other students, How to complete an assignment in class to stay on task, etc. More along the lines of how to function within their schedule.
I also found a way where my 4th grade student could read the revising/editing type questions and retype the sentence correctly in word, then choose the answer choice on what they fixed. This student who would not engage with the questions by just bubbling and guess her answers now got only 1 out of 8 wrong. Also used Word to have them type the sentence as is so they can see where the auto spelling and grammar "suggestions" are to teach them a different way to see the errors that need to be fixed. The turn the edit mode off in Word and let them try a few on their own.
Please share other thoughts if you have them!
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