Looking at ASD DIfferently
Using the ASD WITH the student
The Solution is in the Problem
Preferred Activities:
- Embed preferred activities throughout the student's schedule to enhance student participation in the schedule
- Can help to manage obsessive behaviors
- Helps meet the internal drive of the student
- Preferred activities for work completion
How to use the ASD with the student, not against them
- Pairing/making associations
- Visual continuity
- Verbal Fascinations
- Preferred activities
- Sensory preoccupations
- Transitions issues
Not no, but where and when
- High Interests and repetitive patterns of behavior often serve a purpose for the student with ASD
- Help identify appropriate places and times to engage in that behavior
- Help shape more appropriate replacement behaviors for other times
- Teaching Not no, but where and when supports self-management and self-regulations strategies.
Think Beyond the Visual Schedule
- The visual strategies should bridge the barriers that are preventing the student with ASD from functioning independently within the general education setting
- Visual organzational strategies prevent the staff from making assumptions about what the students need or want
- Organization of an environment leads to independence
- Independence leads to less behavior
Visual Strategies Development Options
- Left/Right orientation
- Top/Bottom orientation
- Color-coded schedule to visually orient to the environment
- Pencil/paper skills to visually orient to the environment
- Preferred activities to associate student with schedule
Functions of Visual Strategies
- Use as a clock
- Use for organization
- Use for transition(s)
- Use for redirection
- Use to manage a crisis or a change in routine
- Use to create visual rules about a situation
- Structure for new or complex environments
- Organization for a complex task
*The visual strategies should bridge the barriers that are preventing the student with ASD from functioning independently within the general education setting*
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TEACHER CONSULTANTS FOR ASD AND SPECIAL EDUCATION
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