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Welcome Educators, Clinicians and Parents. Autism Classroom is a website designed to provide you with ideas, inspiration and resources for educating children with autism and related special needs. You work hard and want to teach your students well, but you might not know where to begin. If you have ever thought I can’t do this on my own, I don’t have the knowledge yet, getting all the materials together makes me physically and mentally tired…then this is the place for you.
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Here you will find foundation building courses for teachers new to autism that solve the problem of how to get started. Not sure how to teach certain skills? Not sure what skills to teach? Ditch the feelings of being unsure, unprepared or underprepared. Experience the relief and confidence of knowing exactly how to start setting up your classroom for students with autism using these Autism Classroom courses and guides.
Teach
Teaching social skills, play skills, language skills, imitation skills, and communication skills in your autism classroom is critial for your students. Building these areas helps to give your students skills they can use for life. Use the "social skills" or "strategies" menu option for details on these topics. Or, get the support you need to be more deliberate in teaching these skills to your students by clicking below.
Autism Classroom at Home
Tips for parents, families, or in-home service providers to help with instruction at home, designing the home environment, providing effective strategies at home and building skills in the home.
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If you are looking for a variety of supports for school teams and families, they may be here. Included are items to help your autism classroom or in-home instruction easier. There are student workbooks for social skills, language skills and writing, digital downloads of printable worksheets, journals, and “how to” books for teachers, paraprofessionals and parents.
Building social skills is a key component of both creating a great autism classroom and providing tools to help autistic students excel!
We've created a collection of resources with a special focus on social interaction, communication, language, play, and imitation to build and improve these essential social skills.
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