Ever had a student who memorized the order of an activity? I certainly have since it’s common with many students with ASD. Instead of learning to add the numbers, instead they memorize the answer. This is fine if they are doing a worksheet one time, but harder if you want to try to reuse file folder activities with them that…
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One of the best parts of my job is that I get to travel around to lots of schools, meet lots of teachers, and share their ideas with other schools and teachers who they may have never even met. As soon as I saw this idea I had to share it. A special education teacher, a speech pathologist, and general…
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Have you ever tried to figure out how to help students with special needs like autism participate meaningfully in PE? In my work with schools I have seen all varieties of PE for all different ages. Some schools have adapted PE for students with special needs and teachers who are specially trained to accommodate all different types of learners. Most…
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The last few posts I have focused on Structured Work Systems and how to design tasks for them. In the next few postsI thought I would share some additional examples of work tasks. The first is a set of file folders working on dressing to match the weather. Weather Kids is a task that can be used in several different…
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As discussed in an earlier post, work systems are important for students with special needs for a variety of reasons and the elements that are important in the system. In this post I want to focus on the elements that are important in the tasks we put in work systems. People don’t always realize that there are specific things you…
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