自闭症五大问题解决方案.pdf

www.KansasASD.com www.TASNBehaviorS MONTHLY VISUAL SUPPORT September 2013 Tips for Educators: Strategies for Teaching Children with Autism By: Peggy Lawrence, TASN - ATBS Technical Assistance Coordinator Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrate deficits in five areas including communication, socialization/social skills, restricted interests, sensory integration and behavior. These students will exhibit varying degrees of difficulties in each of these five areas. This makes students with ASD look different across student populations. In addition, students with ASD can exhibit core deficits of varying degrees and combinations in the following areas: • Difficulty with seeing and understanding the “big picture”; • Difficulty processing auditory information - understanding, retaining, and retrieving; • Difficulty generalizing skills - skills must be taught in context; • Difficulty with sequencing information or steps in a task; • Difficulty transitioning between different activities; • Atypical and/or uneven academic, social, or emotional development (e.g., high functioning in some academic areas, low functioning in others). Classroom Strategies and Interventions ★ Structure the format and presentation of ★ Structure the physical space in the classroom so the worksheets using highlighting of directions, student can clearly see where to find materials and can numbering the steps, using visual rubrics, identify what activities are to take place. modeling and completed examples. ★ Use consistent