In the spirit of the back-to-school season, we, Adventures with ABA in AS and Specially Designed for Special Minds, have decided to join forces and bring you a blog filled with ideas for your Autistic Support classroom in an ALL NEW 4K, 3D, IMAX EXPERIENCE!!!
....Well, we actually can't provide that for you yet, but maybe one day!
Just a quick refresher about who we are! Kortnie and I are both Autistic Support teachers. Currently Kortnie is teaching grades 3 - 5 and I am teaching grades 6 - 7. Together, our experiences combined encompass kids 2 years old - 16 years old with autism, cerebral palsy, ADHD, PTSD, ODD, intellectual disabilities, and typically developing children with problematic behavior, in addition to other diagnosis. Both Kortnie and myself are Licensed Behavior Specialists (LBS) and work as Behavior Specialist Consultants (BSCs) part-time. Additionally, Kortnie is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and I am currently studying for the exam! For more information regarding us feel free to contact us directly or check out the Meet the Teachers section!
We hope that you find our resources as well as our anecdotes, to be helpful at school, in the home, and/or in the community. In keeping with the back to school theme, we've revamped one of our most popular resources! Let us paint a picture: You're in your classroom, 8 kids with autism, 12 students of varying disabilities in Life Skills, or maybe 27 kids in your regular education Kindergarten classroom. It's August. It's hot. It's the first week of school and you're still getting to know your students and they're getting to know you. It's time to transition to lunch, your first 30 minutes, which ends up being more like 10 minutes, alone. You ask your students to line up and it's PURE CHAOS! Bumping. Yelling. Pushing. Shoving! That's where our most popular resource comes into play. The new and improved Puzzle Piece Line Up Visuals. We've both used these types of visuals for years. There are so many versatile ways to use them! If you students already know their numbers, start with that. If your students don't know numbers, but know colors, use colors! For students that are more advanced you could use ordinal numbers or prompt them to stand on the "one that equals 10+5", subtraction, multiplication, or division! Regardless of age and abilities, learning transitions can be hard for everyone, but with the Puzzle Piece Line Up Visuals transitions can be smooth and efficient.
You can find the original Line Up Visual here or enjoy one of the single color packs. If you're feeling fancy, though, we suggest you go for the bonus bundle. It has extra visuals for "teacher," "doors," "lights," and more that will be sure to impress! Plus, rainbows!
We hope you've had a relaxing summer and are as excited as we are to start the school year!
Happy Teaching!
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