Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
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Is it the autism or just bad behavior? It’s hard to know for sure, but if you struggle with autism and discipline, we’re sharing 13 practical tips to teach you how to discipline an autistic child at home and in the classroom.
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
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BUNDLE 1 (90 pages) BUNDLE 1: Behavior, right, wrong, good, bad choices, social, ABA, ADHD, autism (teacherspayteachers.com) BUNDLE 2 (90 pages) BUNDLE 2: Behavior, right, wrong, good, bad choices, social, ABA, ADHD, autism (teacherspayteachers.com) SUPER BUNDLE: 240 PAGES SUPER BUNDLE: Behavior, right, wrong, good, bad choices, social, ADHD, autism (teacherspayteachers.com) Behavior Management and Self Regulation Boost engagement with this fun, interactive resource about types of making good and bad choices. This is a great way to introduce behavior choices, both in the classroom and outside in all daily situations. Use this visual to teach your kids the difference between good choices and bad choices they can make. A really good and fun way to teach kids about kindness, behavior, danger, safety and so much more in a fun, engaging way! Behavior management activities Let’s start with the bad news: Teachers can’t actually control their students’ behavior. That’s because the only behavior a person can control is his or her own. And when teachers try to directly restrict what students say or do, they’re usually left feeling frustrated and helpless. The good news? Teachers can apply some evidence-based strategies to help students take charge of their own behavior and learn how to interact with their environment in a positive way. In dealing with young children, you will inevitably have situations where you will need to provide some discipline for a misstep in behaviour. We all want our kids to be respected and well-liked by others. A perfectly mannered child (or adult for that matter) is probably a mythical creature. It's human to make mistakes while interacting with others, and it's important to use those times as teachable moments for children. It helps to always keep in mind that children are learners. They are learning how to control their emotions, act in different situations, and manage their behaviour. If you can think of each situation as a learning opportunity, you may find success. Behavior is a form of communication. For kids with ADHD, poor behavior usually blossoms from a skill deficit. A child who’s unable to express his frustration verbally may instead throw his pencil across the room; a child who feels socially ostracized may respond by pushing a classmate on the playground. The only way to prevent these undesirable outcomes is for teachers to identify the root causes of bad behavior — and set up systems that promote greater self-awareness and self-control. This resource has been teacher-tested and approved, works great for large or small groups, at learning centers, as a content assessment tool. This is also excellent for kids with autism, ADHD or other special needs. Once you have purchased this resource don't forget to come back and leave feedback to help you gain some TpT credits! The credits build up and then you can use them off future purchases - from any seller on TpT! If you want to keep up to date with my sales, new resources, freebies and so much more click the green ★ next to my store name! BEAUTIFUL COLOURING PAGES Your students will LOVE these engaging picture scenes, and you will love the versatility of using them to address your students’ speech and language goals! This is great for mixed groups, substitute lesson plans, language sampling, progress monitoring, storytelling, and articulation carryover! Colour is not only exciting for a child, but it also helps with their learning. That Magical Moment Your Preschooler Starts Coloring Inside the Lines is fantastic and you should never forget. This simple skill shows that your child's cognitive capabilities are growing in fundamental ways. It seems to happen overnight: Your child goes off to preschool, a master of scribbling. Then, she hands you a piece of artwork that shows she’s tried to color inside the lines for the first time. It’s a big moment — and you deserve to do your proud parent dance as you tape that page to the fridge. That switch in coloring skills is a milestone for children because it shows that their motor skills and cognitive skills are developing. It’s one of many developmental milestones children tend to reach between three to five years of age, but experts advise against explicitly asking children to color within the lines, which could make the activity feel tedious. If your preschooler is still scribbling, not to worry! Every child develops specific skills at different times. If she can’t color inside the lines once she enters first grade, talk to her teacher and pediatrician to determine if a vision test or other assessment is needed. 1. Helps Develop Hand-Strength One of the biggest reasons coloring is important is because it helps develop hand strength. As adults, we’ve been writing, typing, and doing fine motor skills for decades which means we take our hand strength for granted. Toddlers and preschoolers, however, are just beginning to build those muscles. Hand strength is important for all hand-related fine motor skills, especially handwriting. Writing takes strength and dexterity, and coloring helps exercise these muscles. Hand strength will also support your child’s proper pencil grip. 2. Offers Practice for Pencil Grip A crayon is likely one of the first writing instruments your child will hold. By practicing with crayons, your child is fine-tuning their proper pencil grip. Pencil grip is part hand strength and part practice. Coloring allows for both! Most improper hand grips are caused when a child develops poor grip habits before their hands are strong enough to support the proper grip. 3. Stimulates Creativity Giving a child the opportunity to color helps stimulate the creative centers in their mind. Colors, shapes, interpretations, and imagined stories are all present when a child is coloring. Even if your child draws the same picture over and over, they’re still engaging the creative centers in the brain that process colors and shapes. 4. Encourages Self-Expression When children have the opportunity to color, they engage their independence and self-expression. What colors should they choose? What should they draw? What will it look like? Will it be big or small? Will it have lots of colors or just one color? Will the faces be smiling or frowning? Chances are, the answers to their questions are either consciously or subconsciously expressing themselves or their emotions. Drawing is a chance for your child to work through his or her emotions and to express themselves in a safe environment. Children may not always have the words to say exactly how they feel, but coloring will let your child express himself without needing the vocabulary to do so. 5. Improves Fine Motor Coordination In early childhood, children are still developing the fine motor coordination skills that will eventually support their daily activities. Typing, writing, cooking, household chores, turning pages of a book, using tools, doing their hair — pretty much everything requires motor skills. When your child colors, he or she is developing their fine motor coordination. Other coloring-related activities that help develop fine motor coordination include dot-to-dot pictures, tracing, coloring inside the lines of coloring pages, playing tic-tac-toe, and copying a picture onto a blank sheet of paper. 6. Helps Develop Focus Coloring is also a great focus-building exercise. Focus is an important skill for children to learn, not only for their academic careers but for their professional careers as well. Focus is what helps us see through any task from start to finish. You’ll notice as your child’s focus develops that his or her drawings become more intricate, taking more time to complete. This resource has been teacher-tested and approved,
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Stop Light This may look familiar. I talked about using this in my transportation post for final consonant deletion. I love multi-purpose therapy tools! I use this for a visual reminder for my students (mostly my preschool and kindergarten kids). I print out their names, add velcro and the goal is to stay on green the whole time. If they move to yellow then they can still earn their way back up to green, but if they get on red that means no sticker and I report back to their teacher/parents. Usually just getting on yellow puts them in check and they are ready to work after just that warning. You can also use terms like green choices (good choices) or red choices (bad choices). Thought Pails My friend Angela uses this with her groups and it does wonders. Blue or Purple sticks means she's having "good" thoughts about the student. Red or yellow sticks mean she's having "weird" thoughts about the student and they need to fix the issue. These visual reminders really seem to help. Token Boards I found this great resource along with many other visuals off elearning.autism.net. Some kids need a constant visual reminder of what they are working towards. These token boards are great with that. I will often use them with my younger kids working on articulation that just don't have the attention to task that is required to complete the drill practice. Here is another great visual from Live Speak Love I'm a big believer in positive reinforcement. When I see a student sitting quietly and doing what they are asked to do I try and make sure I tell them, " I like that Johnny is sitting with his hands in his lap." This usually encourages the other students to do what's being asked as well. What do you all do to promote making good choices? Leave a comment below so everyone can see!
I question my methods often, as I think all good educators should. So, if you have a minute please read this LONG post and leave some honest feedback and advice on what works for YOU. Last year was a tough one (behaviorally) in my classroom. I felt I had more defiance, anger and "issues" come up than I ever have before. Actually it seems every year gets a little tougher. I've taught for 14 years and in the last 2 years I've had to chase down runaway kids, been spit at, screamed at, scratched and had to have many, many, many talks about why it is not ok to hurt others. So, I'm spending my summer trying to prepare myself for next year. If the pattern holds I need to be ready. I want my kinders to have a great year. . .it's their first and I need to be at my best for them and their parents who might be sending their first (or last) child through kindergarten. They deserve a stress free environment, right? I'll share with you what I've done for years and then ask my question. I've always had a "Behavior Management" system. Whether it's been "move your card" or "move your picture" or "move your clip." The overall idea was always the same: 1. You make a bad choice 2. You lose 5-10 minutes of _____ (free time, recess, computer time, etc) 3. Think about the "choice" that put you in this "time out" 4. When "time out" is over we'll discuss what choices where made and what you could do differently next time And I can honestly say that, out of a class of 24 last year, there were 12 kids who had to repeat this process over and over and over and over. Sigh. Here's my chart from last year. Also, I think it's important to understand that the consequences part of my classroom management is not all I do. We have a "Pond of Choice" for conflict resolution. (Love this by the way! If you want to know more click the picture to go to the website.) We talk about above the line/below the line behavior (Top 20 Training: Great training and I love this too and use it alot!) I've read Ruby Payne's book A Framework for Understanding Poverty. I understand the need to teach "those are your home rules" and "these are your school rules" Great book by the way! We read stories about appropriate behavior. We talk about what appropriate vs. inappropriate behavior looks like, how it affects everyone, what we can do to build a better community, and on and on and on. Love Julia Cook. . . she is FaNtAsTiC! We talk about Warm Fuzzies/Cold Prickles and try to fill our Warm Fuzzy jar for a class reward. We read Have You Filled a Bucket Today? We role play, practice "redos", I sing my songs, chant my chants, do my little dance, weave my magic over their beautiful 5 and 6 year old minds and still: **Bobby finds it ok to scratch Sally and draw blood because she touched his pencil** **Billy thinks it's ok to yell at me because his shoe is untied** **Susie runs out of the building and tries to hide because she doesn't want to go to music** **Jenny screeches (yes, screeches!) at the class that life is not fair and she hates us all.** Well, you get the point. Even after hours, days, weeks, months spent working on positive productive behavior kids still make bad choices, mistakes, errors, learning opportunities. . . whatever you want to call them. And isn't it our job, as their teacher, to help them learn from their choices? So, finally, here's where my question comes in: The BEHAVIOR CHART Some say they are not necessary and only "embarass" the kids. Some say "keep it" and lots are even using this more positive version I've seen all over pinterest and blogs: What do you think? I can see both points of view. I really can. I don't want to embarrass the kids but I do want them to stop and think about their behavior because how else are they going to learn from it? I believe (even if it is controversial) that kids need consequences for hurtful/inappropriate behavior (that might be a post for another day!) Do you "keep track" of inappropriate behavior? If so, how? If not, what do you do?
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A blog for Preschool, Special Education and Autism for Behavior Management, Classroom ideas and Resources
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A blog for Preschool, Special Education and Autism for Behavior Management, Classroom ideas and Resources
