Autism in the Classroom

• missed diagnosis
• 3 person activity (one writes, the other 2 have a conversation)
• Peers program

ASD Strategies and Programs

• Want to know
• PECS pictures from Boardmaker, Comiclife
• AT pics in Choiceworks app that students can interact with, with voice
• work stations
• creating independence
• practice procedure
• 4 questions
• show box activities
• for skills that have been mastered (to practice)
• another table to learn skills
• baskets and finish bin
• red card says 'check schedule'
• yellow card is 'activity'
• vary the tasks, number of baskets, number of tasks in each basket
• black 'task' - step instructions
• Proloquo2go
• ipad communication app
• icons to make word to communicate
• for independence
• PECS
• picture exchange comm system
• communicating with others e.g. point or say the word
• 6 phases of pecs
• app to send picture to another ipad
• sensory
• room
• sensory processing disorder (youtube, 10 mns)
• stickids
• at Aldershot elem
• STAR program
• requires training from SLP
• tasks - reward - task (don't talk too much)
• 70% activity success is an indication it has been acquired (good for IPP outcome)
• PEERS program
• http://www.semel.ucla.edu/peers
• FBA
• Functional beh Analysis
• beh startegies ( basis for PEBS)
• see dawn r
• Animals
• therapy dogs
• other animals
• sites
• autism helper
• TEACCH