How to Calm Down

This is a great visual for children who have Autism. It teaches them the process to help calm themselves down. We need to teach them that it's okay to get upset or mad, but we must guide our anger in an appropriate matter. 

Super Flex

If you work with children who have Autism I highly recommend using super flex. Super flex is a superhero social thinking curriculum. It's a fun and motivating way to teach children social skills. 

Tattling or Reporting

Children who have Autism don't know how to differentiate between tattling or reporting. So here is a work system to help them distinguish the difference between the two. We want children to report incidents not tattle not on their friends. 

"Wh" Questions

Intervention/ work system to help children who have Autism ask "wh" questions. 

Yoga Pretzels

These easy yoga cards are great for children who need to slow their bodies down or if they need to take a sensory break. The cards show you how to do the pose in 4 easy steps.

BINGO

I really enjoy using this work system because it makes it fun for the children. This system is used for mainstreaming a child with Autism or ADHD.  I use this on a child who has trouble controlling his body, following directions and listening to teachers. Every child has different needs so you can modify this work system to make it work for you. The key to change those key behaviors is to catch the child doing whats on the bingo and mark it with a dry ease marker. Just like bingo if the child gets five in a row they earn free choice for five minutes.

What? Why? How? =

This work system is used to mainstream a child with Autism in a regular education classroom. (What) you write what the subject is that you want the child to be doing. (Why) in most cases I write expected because the children I teach know whats expected and whats unexpected. Sometimes, I may write " It makes your teachers happy." (How) I write how you need to be doing the task. With a quiet mouth, do work, eyes on teacher, and 2nd grade hands. (=) This means the child gets a reward if they complete the task that I' m asking them to do. In this case the reward is 5 mins of Angry Birds on the Ipad.