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Surveys
We want to know what you think! We like to use surveys to discover more about the attitudes and opinions of our members. Please participate. It gives you an opportunity to share your experiences and express your beliefs to our community.
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Communicating to Autistic Children
I am an itinerant special ed teacher. One of my most recent experiences with visual strategies was making a breakfast mat for a child, diagnosed as having ADHD, whose breakfast behavior at Head Start, was disturbing the class. . . .
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Autism Experiences
My success story is about the many students I have worked with in my role as parent/educational advocate and the significant benefits they have obtained from building visual supports and strategies into their IEPs. On so many occasions when I am working with IEP teams there are lengthy discussions about the student's difficulty with . . .
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Using Visual Strategies to Communicate
I'll share several: 1. Several weeks ago as part of an assessment I was conducting for a student with autism, I interviewed the parents. In the course of the discussion, I described the use of a First-Then Board as it related to difficulties they were having with their son and I provided one for home use. Yesterday, at the IEP, the mother said that this visual support tool was working wonderfully and because it was such a simple tool, she wondered why . . .
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What they did using Visual Strategies
Visual strategies have been most successful for me when I first begin academic instruction in my students with ASD. I also use all types of visual prompts/cues with my older ASD students in a more age-appropriate manner. Sometimes my visual prompt is only with a colored dot or mark on their papers!! I am a visual learner and . . .
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Visual Strategies Stories and Experiences
As I conduct parent training sessions, I always come across parents that believe using visual supports will be a huge challenge that will probably not be successful. I always try to create visuals that are uncomplicated and reproducible as well as easy to use and understand. I have tried several things . . .
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Success Stories and Experiences with Austisic Children
I use visual strategies all the time with my students--schedules, reminders, organization, to help in anticipation of field trips or special events (concerts or guest speakers), to aid in transitions (I will be doing photo albums to aid in transition to next year's classrooms soon). My kindergarten teachers are . . .
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Autism Stories and Experiences
Here's one of my experiences... I had a major problem with a boy who did not want to wait for an adult to leave the room especially at lunch or at dismissal...I made a sign that read STOP! Students are not permitted to leave the room without . . .
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Parents and Teachers sharing sucessful Visual Strategies
We used small, colour, laminated pictures of a clock with students when it was almost time to finish an activity to let them know the end was coming, and also when one became frustrated and ready to end a session they got to take the picture and go to the next room and . . .
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Visual Strategies Experiences
Each year I take my class of students with moderate to severe Autism to our Oklahoma Special Olympics State Games on the campus of Oklahoma State Univeristy. We spend 2 nights and 3 days on campus participating. Each student or his/her coach carries with them a visual schedule of what is happening step by step for each day. Along with daily schedules down to brushing teeth, showering etc., we put in rain plans, cancellation plans and change of venue plans just in case. The visual schedules help my students . . .
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Using Visual Strategies with ASD Individuals: Success Stories (Part 1)
Do you have a success story or an experience story or some comments about your experience using visual strategies? Here's what they shared: We had a preschool child in whom we suspected Asperger's. He did not transition well so we used a digital camera and took pictures of each place he had to go with a time line. (he was obsessed with time and clocks) There were different schedules for each different daily schedule like the day he had speech, and the day he had music library or PE. . . .
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Using Visual Strategies with ASD Individuals: Success Stories (Part 2)
Do you have a success story or an experience story or some comments about your experience using visual strategies? Here's what they shared: Using visual strategies has been successful with all of my students with autism. Whether picture icons, written rules,schedules, etc. visual strategies do work. We had one 4 year old boy in preschool who tantrumed every morning and refused to get . . .
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Using Visual Strategies with ASD Individuals: Success Stories (Part 3)
Do you have a success story or an experience story or some comments about your experience using visual strategies? Here's what they shared: I used a powerpoint presentation of saying "Hi" to friends. This program was used as a script and video model for my students. The students loved it. It helped the student learn to initiate greeting. . . .
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Using Visual Strategies with ASD Individuals: Success Stories (Part 4)
Do you have a success story or an experience story or some comments about your experience using visual strategies? Here's what they shared: I had a good experience with a boy in grade eight, who is non verbal and severely autistic. Our class was going to the bowling alley and I was concerned about the boys anxiety level at the bowling alley. He had never initiated using the washroom with me and I was beginning to use picsyms to communicate with him, and to give him a way to communicate his . . .
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Using Visual Strategies with ASD Individuals: Success Stories (Part 6)
Do you have a success story or an experience story or some comments about your experience using visual strategies? Here's what they shared: For my students who are readers, I find a portable whiteboard to be a wonderful tool. I can communicate a step-by-step process when they are in crisis or confusion. One day, I had a brand-new assistant working in my classroom. One of my . . .
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