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Continue reading →: Autism in Kindergarten Classroom
It has been 8 weeks since the new school year began. Everyone on campus works on the building once again in-person community, learning classroom procedures, and transitioning between places safely and independently. It is hard work and has been smooth.💕 One thing I noticed though…as many of our primary grade teachers…
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Continue reading →: Social Skills with Autism
Play is fun! I don’t think it’s always the case in my room. Some of my students seem to prfer playing sole. 😋 Social skills of autism is always one of the hot topics in education. Books, videos, curriculum guides… I have studied many resources to create an intervention model…
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Continue reading →: 5 Must-Read Autism Books for ParentsThese autism books for parents are invaluable resource for parents raising children with autism. They emphasizes the important e of empathy and acceptance.
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Continue reading →: Autism Resource for Parents
5 Must-Read Books for Parents and Educators 📙📕 1️⃣ Uniquely HumanThis book has shifted my mindset on teaching children with needs. Accepting who they come first- and then my job will be to recognize the need to teach necessary skills for them to lead healthy, happy, and meaningful lives. After…
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Continue reading →: 5 Halloween Read-Aloud
해마다 10월은 주제 중심 수업을 하기에 더없이 좋은 달 이다. 할로윈은 미국에서 대표적으로 챙기는 할리데이(?) 인데 그 덕에 학교는 한 달 내내 관련된 내용으로 수업 내용을 꽉꽉 채우고, 학생들은 신나하며 자기도 모르게 공부하고 있는 달이다. 할로윈과 관련해서 Bat, spider, cat, black, web, monser, goblin, pumpkin, orange, witch에 관한 활동을 많이…
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Continue reading →: Halloween Social Skills ActivitiesThe ideas are endless- in and out of my learning center. We get to read, write, play with numbers on the Halloween themed activity worksheets. Each class has been working on art activities as well. Students started this project by ripping a whole bunch of orange paper. Smaller the better…
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Continue reading →: Assessment of Special Education Students
In the beginning of a new school year 👩🏻🏫, it is all about getting to know the students and helping them settle in their classes. For those who just transitioned to a new school and case manager (for students with IEPs), assessment is another big task for the teachers to…
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Continue reading →: Assessment in Special Education: ABLLS-R
What assessment do you use in special education classroom? Another topic special educators can talk about for hours is assessment. What do we use to assess students in special education? Especially for those with significant delays in academics, language, and behavior? What’s ABLLS-R? ABLLS-R has been my go-to assessment and curriculum…
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Continue reading →: Samples of IEP Goals
IEP goals writing is not easy. Each student has to be look at individually and his/her IEPs have to build a path to serve his unique needs. There are many samples of IEP goals out there. In fact, there are some tricky cases when coming up academic goals for students…
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Continue reading →: Autism Distance Learning
Autism Distance Learning: Distance learning, also known as remote or online learning, became a prevalent mode of education during the COVID-19 pandemic. With the aim of minimizing the spread of the virus and ensuring the safety of students and educators, many schools and educational institutions shifted to remote learning as…
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Continue reading →: School Closure and Distance Learning
Year of 2020 was something. The school had shut down on 3/13/2020 and didn’t open until 9/28/2020. After all, most of my students were not equipped to the online teaching model- so I was the first teacher in our area back on campus since the school closure, as a public…
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Continue reading →: Monthly Themes in Special Education Classroom
I see many teachers in our district are equipped with some curriculum guides to follow when teaching core academics. But I love to see how teachers also bring some fun activities to motivate students in learning through read-aloud, art and craft, and songs, etc. For example, October is a great…
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Continue reading →: Toilet Training
Are you looking for some video and visual resources focusing on “toilet training” or teaching daily living skills involved in a bathroom. 1.Video Modeling The use of video to prime a child with autism for toileting is one of the effective way to approach. (Bainbridge, Nicole; Brenda Smith Myles, 1999)…
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Continue reading →: IISCA and function based treatments
What unique name for such clear and straightforward guidelines for the treatment programming for the behavior folks- The field is evolving with a group of amazing people whose hard work nurture the field of applied behavior analysis everyday. I first met IISCA and Dr. Hanely through BCBA’s continuing educaiton course,…
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Continue reading →: Sensory versus Behavior
Charles wanted to “run” across the field. He likes to bounce on the ball, jump on the trampoline, climb up and down the play structure. He may take off in the middle of the class. In fact, he runs so fast and there were times he created a big trouble…






