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Combining their years of experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum, the authors bring practical ideas and teaching methods for offering visual supports to students with autism spectrum disorders.
When a child with an autism spectrum disorder is also visually impaired, the effects on learning and behavior and complex and varied. Two exceptional educators condense their years of personal and professional experience into a one-of-a-kind handbook of effective ways to work with such students, including suggestions and approaches for assessment, instruction, and program planning; forms and tools for capturing vital information; information on assessment instruments, instructional materials, and web sites rich in important advice. Professionals and educators, as well as parents, will find critical guiding principles and valuable strategies.
Visual supports have been proven to be a highly effective way to communicate with, and teach, a student with an autism spectrum disorder or other learning difficulty. This book is packed with simple, effective tools to assist in the education of students with special education needs. They can be adapted to be used with young children and older learners with a range of educational needs, including nonverbal learners. Based on the author's years of teaching experience, the book covers how the classroom environment is laid out, how to use schedules and time planning aids, different education approaches and the teaching of social rules and appropriate behavior. All the visual supports are clearly explained alongside examples and photos showing them in use in the classroom. The supports are also included on the accompanying online downloadable content as blank templates. This will be a welcome resource of easy-to-use ideas for mainstream and special education teachers. Therapists, parents and anyone working with students with learning difficulties will also find many of the ideas useful.
Making Visual Supports Work is exploding with practical ideas for daily living with a child with Asperger Syndrome. It is an easy read that empowers parents to use everyday items to create simple, effective visual supports. A "must" for any parent who wants to have less conflict and more fun.
Visual supports are excellent tools for teaching academic, daily living, and self-help skills to people with autism. This reader-friendly and practical book shows teachers, parents, and service providers how to make low-tech visual supports, and offers strategies for using them. The new second edition includes expanded information about using visual supports with the youngest children, advice on fading supports, and updated photo examples of: activity schedules; calendars; charts; checklists & to-do lists; color coding; flip books; graphic organizers; mnemonics; nametags; photo boards; power cards; scripts; social stories; and video modeling.
Visual support aids can be highly effective tools for increasing levels of communication and independence in children with autism, who often have difficulty interpreting spoken language and non-verbal facial expressions. Fully illustrated with inspiring examples, Everyday Education provides a wealth of ideas for creating visual support aids for children on the autism spectrum. Photographs and clear, practical explanations describe how these tools can be arranged helpfully around the home for the child to use. The authors describe how visual support aids can be used in all kinds of everyday situations, from labelling - for example, sticking a picture of a dinner plate with a knife and fork to the chair in which the child sits at meal times - to putting together a pictorial activities schedule for the child to refer to. This fun and encouraging book will be a valuable source of ideas for parents of children with autism and professionals working with them.
Research indicates that 95% or more of children, including children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), think with a visual system: by making pictures, movies, and graphics in their minds. However, the vast majority of instruction in schools is provided using auditory - not visual - methods. This discrepancy between the way that most educators teach, and the way that children learn best, has led to a mismatch in our current school system. Despite the best intentions of educators to include individuals with learning differences, many children with autism are not making as much school progress as their neurotypical peers. Visual Thinking Strategies for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders aims to flip the script: by encouraging adults to think not about what they can provide to neurodiverse children, but instead on what these children's brains need to thrive. To make such a radical shift in perspective, national expert on autism Dr. Ellyn Arwood advocates for parents, educators, and caregivers of neurodiverse children to think using a visual learning system in order to see the world through the eyes of these young and exceptional individuals. Alongside speech-language pathologist Carole Kaulitz and behavioral-learning consultant Mabel Brown, Dr. Arwood demonstrates how Viconic Language Methods¿ can open new doors of learning for children who have struggled in schools or other clinical settings. Join these educational specialists as they usher in the newest movement of brain-based, strength-based visual learning.
Describes many types of visual supports and visual strategies that support informational, behavioral, and communication necessary in the education of students with autism spectrum disorders.
- Professionals can be trained in the program and its methods - Translates scientific knowledge so that practitioners and parents can easily understand the current state of knowledge - Offers strategies that can be tailored to an individual's unique developmental and functional level - Advises parents on how to become involved in all phases of intervention as collaborators, co-therapists, and advocates. - Details how the program can be introduced and adapted for individuals of all ages, from preschooler to adult
