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Successful Social Skills for Individuals with ASD
Students with autism or Asperger's Syndrome or related learning needs can have significant challenges in developing appropriate social skills. This department is filled with ideas to help teach appropriate skills for participating in social environments.
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Caity meets Facebook
Marianne Bryant
Caity has had a Facebook page for at least 3 years now and before that she had a "My Space". At first I was deathly afraid of the idea. I had visions of her sneaking out of the house to meet a "friend" in the middle of the night at the corner. She wasn't allowed to get . . .
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Autism: Facilitating friendship--or more--with the opposite sex
Laura Shumaker
I've grown tired of telling my son Matthew, who is 23 and has autism, that he'll meet a nice girl someday. I've decided to help him, and started by asking myself three questions: 1) What is the biggest obstacle that prevents Matthew from meeting girls? 2) What is the best way to help him with his socially awkward behavior so that he doesn't scare girls away? 3) Once he meets a girl who agrees to hang out with him, how do I provide supervision? . . .
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Caity Meets Her Countdown Visual
Marianne Bryant
I'm sure you will all know what I am talking about when I re-tell this next story. Your child finally gets invited to a birthday party and then you begin to get nervous. There is this little tiny part of you that almost wishes it hadn't happened because of all the anxiety that you, the mom, will go through. I used to always worry about how Caity would . . .
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Do You See What I Mean?
Paula Kluth
Many learners with disability labels are visual learners and are best able to understand and remember content when they can see it represented in some way; in other words, they need to "see what we mean." Visual and spatial learners often think in terms of pictures and learn best from things that can be seen including diagrams, checklists, charts, and graphic organizers; movies; illustrated books; curriculum-related objects (e.g., dioramas, math counters, models); and . . .
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Throwing Rocks
Aileen Hecht
I tried very hard to be friends with the kids in my neighborhood, four of which were my cousins, and four or so others living within a hundred yards as well. I really only followed them around (mostly the girls), observing, mimicking, assimilating, trying to learn to be like them so that I could not only be their friends but to make friends at school as well. They weren't necessarily popular but as far as neighborhood cliques go, I very much found the breaks from solitude appealing and somewhat more comforting than those provided by the classmates at school considering that half of the neighborhood playmates were family. Family is an entirely different entity than the classmates who were . . .
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It's Worth a Try!
Kerri Stocks
Here I am giving different strategies for you to use if you feel different feelings and emotions through out your day. A lot of times they may work, but sometimes they . . .
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When They Stare
Kerri Stocks
Some days it can feel like everyone is staring at you. Whether it is when you walk into a classroom and the kids look straight at you, or . . .
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Copying
Kerri Stocks
Sometimes when we feel we are not good enough, we watch other people or other children and think that if we were . . .
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Creating All-Inclusive Extracurricular Activities Can Aid Children with Autism
Mara Sapon-Shevin & Paula Kluth
In many schools, extra-curricular activities are part of a competitive ideology that separates and sorts students. Participation in extra-curricular activities is seen as the "right" or privilege of high achieving students, as a ticket to a better college, and as a way of preparing students for participation in competitive, societal forms of a particular activity. Thus, being on the football team is seen as a way of training a few excellent athletes who may go on to play professional football; being in the school play or chorus is a way of providing high level theatrical and musical experiences for students who excel in that area who then might pursue these activities in institutions of higher learning or as community members. . . .
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Mistakes! Ooops!
Kerri Stocks
A mistake is something that is incorrect. A mistake can be an error of judgment. Mistakes can happen anytime and anywhere but . . .
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Autism plays role in drama workshop
Marcia Manna
was Reid Moriarty's first time attending the Positive Action Community Theatre. The tousle-haired teen reluctantly followed his mother into the bare room with a wall of mirrors, where a . . .
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