Special Education

Articulation:

  • Read with your child focusing on their target sounds

  • Find items at home, outside, etc. that have their target sound

  • Play board games/card games (have child name the picture, practice asking for each item with good speech sounds, etc)

  • Make a list of words containing target sounds

  • Engage your child in conversation about their favorite movie, book, hobbies, etc.

Language:

  • Read with your child

    • Focus on vocabulary your child may not know

    • Retell the story

    • Have your child describe items in the story

    • Have your child identify nouns, adjectives, verbs from the story

    • Ask them questions about the story

  • Play games targeting:

    • Following directions

    • Vocabulary

    • Turn taking

  • Engage your child in conversation

    • Ask them questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why)

    • Practice turn taking in the conversation

  • Pretend play (request items, name items, etc.)

  • Go on walks and talk about nature

For our older students:

  • Ask “How” questions (How do you brush your teeth?)

  • Ask how objects are alike/different. (airplane-bird, sun- banana)

  • Synonyms/Antonyms

  • Engage in reading books

    • Have your student predict what will happen next

    • Have them describe the setting, characters, etc.

    • Answer questions related to story

  • Play games

    • Practice turn taking, conversational skills, requesting items, etc.

Fluency: (Stuttering)

  • Encourage your child to practice their stuttering strategies

  • Read a book and have your child retell the story

  • Have your child recall events from the day

AUTISM SUPPORTS:

Social Skills

https://do2learn.com/organizationtools/SocialSkillsToolbox/index.htm

Visual Supports

http://www.autismcircuit.net/tools

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Activities

Scholastic Learn at Home

SUPPORTS FOR STUDENTS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS:

Free Audio Books

Free eBooks

Learning Ally

BookShare

UDL Toolkit for Audiobooks

UDL Toolkit Text-to-Speech for Writing

Literacy Tools

Writing Tools

Math Tools