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Lee A. W.

Lee A.

The assessment of communication skills is vital component of a comprehensive assessment for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A best practice communication assessment should provide information about the child’s...

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Gerry H. 15 hours ago • Edit • Thanks Lee. This is so true. These kids need to accurately assessed BEFORE well-intentioned OT's and SLP's start hacking away with various ... »
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Lee A. W.

Lee A.

Social-Pragmatice Skills and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

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As a group, higher functioning students with ASD tend to demonstrate strength in formal language, but a weakness is pragmatic and social skills. As a result, they often fail to qualify for speech-language services because they...

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Jason V.

Jason

Curriculum Based Assessment Checklists for Common Core

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Daven S.

Daven

Teaching flexible thinking through shapes and colours. The most basic cultivates the mind at...

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Teaching flexible thinking through shapes and colours For this part of the Flexible Thinking Series, I am going to suggest some methods we can use the concepts of shapes and colours to encourage flexible thinking. 1)...

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Waruguru M.

Waruguru

Teacher requires help

I teach high schoolers with hearing impairments. Recently, i have a student, 19, who is deaf and is losing his sight. (He was involved ...

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Ann Margaret R.

Ann Margaret

I work w a 21 year-old man who's mentally 3 and somewhat clumsy. We swim 3X week. Can you suggest other physical activities? He likes...

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Anne V. 4 days ago • Edit • I would reiterate what has been said earlier about ensuring activities are age appropriate - a bit of a fine balance in some situations, but ... »
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James G.

James

Looking for Real Job offers? There are many Online Teaching Job Openings Available Now in Every Major City - Apply Today!

Online Teaching jobs available all over the world. For more info visit http://egetajob.org/online-teaching-jobs/

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Teaching online can be very different from teaching in a traditional classroom. An Educator who accepts employment teaching online must be prepared to be technically...

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Susan S.

Susan

Anyone have tips for a new teacher starting out teaching a summer school (ESY) class for 4 high school students with autism? I am going...

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Lynne D. H. 4 days ago • Edit • One activity I once did at Variety Camp was hatch baby chicks (4H organizes this). My groups of autistic kids of all ages and ranging across ... »
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Lee A. W.

Lee A.

DSM-5 Changes for Autism: Final Call for Comments

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The American Psychiatric Association's (APA) new diagnostic criteria for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) for autism has been widely publicized. While final decisions are...

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Chrisanthy T. 5 days ago • Edit • Indeed as teachers we committed to see each student as unique in addressing hers or his strengths and challenges. However, following the ... »
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Sue I.

Sue

Autism Summer Camp

Children will utilize a variety of methodologies at camp to enhance their camp experience. They include but are not limited to: *Visual strategies: Schedules, topic boards, and visually cued instruction *Sensory Integration...

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Cheryl E. 9 days ago • Edit • If your child receives 12 month schooling, and you're able to drop your child off for program at 9:30 am and return to pick them up at 2:30, ... »
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