First Runner-Up in the 2006 Writer’s Notes Book Awards!
This book utilizes the strengths of children with ASD to help them develop new skills. Tasks are visually oriented and consistent, and expectations are clear. Children learn motor, matching, sorting, reading, writing, and math skills using easy-to-make “task boxes.”
Tasks include pushing items through small openings (children love the “resistance” it takes to push them through), matching simple, identical pictures or words, sorting objects by color, size, or shape, and more!
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.
Price: $21.95
Pages: 200
Publisher: Future Horizons
Imprint: Future Horizons
Publication Date:
15 October 2010
Trim Size: 10.98 X 8.40 in
ISBN: 9781935274148
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
EDUCATION / Special Education / Developmental & Intellectual Disabilities, Teaching of students with different educational needs, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders, EDUCATION / Special Education / Communicative Disorders, EDUCATION / Special Education / Behavioral, Emotional & Social Disabilities, Autism & Asperger’s Syndrome, Teaching of students with social, emotional or behavioural difficulties
Kimberly A. Henry is a special educator with over twenty years experience working with students with autism and other developmental disorders. She received her master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. After beginning her teaching career as a general education teacher in middle school, she switched to special education. Kim taught special education at the middle school and preschool levels, and in an elementary specialized autism program.
Ms. Henry is the noted author of the "How Do I Teach This Kid?" series, through which she provides practical, easy-to-implement ideas for using visual strategies to teach children with autism or other developmental challenges. In addition to being a university adjunct instructor, Kim currently works as a teacher specialist, providing technical assistance and mentoring to teachers of children with autism from preschool through elementary grades.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Building Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Skills
ABC Book
Thematic ABC Book
ABC Action Chant
Fridge Phonics
Dr. Seuss and Friends
Magic Word Book
Dipthong Song
Building Vocabulary
My Picture Book
Environmental Print Book
Word Wall
Thematic Word Wall
Audio Card Reader
One Word Text
Picture Me Reading
Word Web
List Poem
Building Comprehension
Language Experience Story
Book Box
Simon Says
Book
Text Picture Match
Cover Picture Prediction
Picture Walk
Question Sticks
Question Cues
Use the Clues
Thinking in Pictures
Comment Stop
Feelings
It's Right There
Visual Organizers
Building Fluency
Read to Me
Echo Reading
Predictable Text
Pacing Board
Sentence Builders
Adapted Books
Additional Resources
References
