How Do I Teach This Kid?: Visual Work Tasks for Beginning Learners on the Autism Spectrum

How Do I Teach This Kid?: Visual Work Tasks for Beginning Learners on the Autism Spectrum

Henry, Kimberly A.

BookHigh SchoolSpecial Education Teacher

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First Runner-Up in the 2006 Writers Notes Book Awards, this book utilizes the strengths of children with ASD to help them develop new skills. Tasks are visually oriented, consistent; expectations are clear. Using easy-to-make task boxes children learn:motormatchingsortingreadingwritingand math skillsTasks include:pushing items through a small openings (children love the resistance it takes to push them through)matching simple, identical pictures or wordssorting objects by color, size, or shape.Ideas are plentiful, materials colorful, and children love the repetitive nature of the tasks, which help them learn to work independently! Sample data sheets are included.

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Using the visual strengths of children with ASD to help them build new skills, this award-recognized guide provides teachers with practical task box activities that are visually oriented, consistent, and clear in their expectations. Through motor matching, sorting, reading, writing, and math activities, it offers one of the most practical and effective approaches to skill-building for beginning learners on the autism spectrum.

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