Autism and Inclusive Classrooms

Additional Resources

There are many resources available to support individuals with ASD. Below are a few resources to share:

Websites

Supporting Students with Autism: 10 Ideas for Inclusive Classrooms

8 Academic Supports for Autistic Students | OARAcademic supports are never one-size-fits all. Teachers can best support autistic students when they have a range of strategies to choose from. As a general principle, interventions that provide predictability, support, and empowerment, while also reducing anxiety and building on strengths, are effective. When applied in the classroom, such interventions enable autistic students to best

Supporting Inclusive Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Part Iin the first of a two-part series, CILSE fellow Erin Richmond provides useful suggestions and resources for helping students with autism thrive emotionally, socially, and academically in the classroom setting with a focus on social and behavioral supports.

Supporting Inclusive Education for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder - Part IIPart Two of our Inclusion Guide features additional strategies for including children with autism in your classroom.

Understanding Behavior as Communication: A Teacher’s GuideUnderstanding that behavior is a form of communication can help teachers reframe what they’re seeing and not take student behavior personally.

Work Systems in the School Setting

Visual supports for autism: a step by step guide - Autism AwarenessPeople with ASD tend to learn best using visual supports like pictures or sign language rather than auditory input. Here is a guide to resources and best practices

Podcast and Videos

Uniquely Human: The PodcastListen to Uniquely Human: The Podcast on Spotify. Uniquely Human: the Podcast expands the conversation on autism and neurodiversity by amplifying the voices of autistic individuals and thought leaders in providing insightful, cutting-edge and practical information about the autistic experience. Hosted by Barry Prizant and Dave Finch.

The world needs all kinds of mindsTemple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works -- sharing her ability to "think in pictures," which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids.

www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/best-instructional-videos-autism-awareness.shtml

Books

Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms to Support Children with Challenging BehaviorsRebecca Moyes, a teacher, author, renowned lecturer, and mother of a child with Asperger's Syndrome, helps walk any regular education or special education teacher through the process of setting up a sensory-riendly classroom in this easy to use book. This is currently the only book that discusses the importance of data-driven strategies, and then helps teachers implement them! Sensory integration disorder often presents as a behavioral problem; thus, although it’s an internal state, it has to be addressed based on what observable behaviors are seen in the child.

Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Inclusive Classroom

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