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Dice that Go Up to Numbers Less than Six
Print, cut, and fold this pair of large die. Intended for an Autistic or special needs class, these dice include numbers 1-3 and won't add up to more than 6. This is a great way to engage a child socially as well as academically.
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Calm Down Visual Cards
Associating a concept with a visual cue or reminder can be a highly effective learning tool for some Autistic or special needs pupils. This template includes images that are associated with specific techniques for calming down. The card...
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Playing "Pin the Tail on the Donkey": A Social Story
What is "Pin the Tail on the Donkey?" It's a game people play at parties. Prepare your Autistic pupil to play along by reading this social story. Each page contains rules of the game and what to expect. Playing games is a great way to...
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Train Skip Counting: Count by 2s
Skip counting builds number sense and prepares learners for multiplication. Intended for use with Autistic children, but appropriate for anyone, this worksheet provides a way to practice counting by 2s. There are 6 trains, the child...
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High Frequency Words: Flash Cards
Twenty high frequency words for you to print, cut, and use. These are all very simple words intended for early readers, special needs, or Autistic pupils. Flash cards are a great way to get special needs kids ready to read. Four blank...
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Behavior tracking sheet
Here is a template for tracking and recording an expected behavior. For use with an Autistic pupil working on verbal communication skills, this sheet provides a way to track the number of times and prompts needed for the him to ask for...
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Travis the Train Visits the City in the Spring
Being in a large city may be a lot for a special needs or Autistic student to handle. Prepare them with community integration skills. This social story tells what Travis the Train sees on his visit to the city. Discuss what your pupil...
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ABC Data Sheet Version 2
I have filled out quite a few of these in my day! This ABC (antecedent, behavior, consequence) sheet is intended to collect comprehensible data to help determine the function of a particular behavior. This is a vital tool for assessing...
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Color Word Cards
Because many Autistic children learn to read through pattern recognition or memorization, flash cards can be really helpful. Eight color words can be printed and laminated to create color word flash cards. Each word is printed in black...
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Game template
Playing games can be a fun way to learn social engagement skills. This is nothing more that a 11 block game template, but it can be used with special needs or Autistic children to foster social skills. They will need to follow...
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Rainy Vocabulary
Phonics doesn't always work for everybody. Use this series of rainy day vocabulary words and images to increase your special needs students' sight word vocabulary. Intended for Autistic learners, but useful for any sight reader.
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Special Education Plan
Special needs students practice completing everyday tasks such as organizing a day plan, reading a clock and completing simple math problems. They define the proper learning techniques for their disorder and utilize props in learning...
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21st Century Social Skills
Explore communication techniques by using the latest video technology. In this special education lesson, students create a video discussing their own social goals for the future. Students utilize Flip Video cameras to document their...
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Yes We Can! Students with Autism & Down-Syndrome on the Drums!
To learn about various topics and improve their social skills, learners with special needs play along with music on drums and other sound objects. Teachers take digital pictures of the learners participation and use them to make bulletin...
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Data Collection Sheet: Gross Motor Imitation
Just starting out and in need of a data collection sheet? Nearly every skills set established in an IEP needs to be documented to show progress toward skill mastery. This resource will help you track your student on their way to motor...
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Centers for Increasing Learning Capability and Engagement for Students with Autism
Learners increase capacity for learning. For this engagement lesson, autistic students complete computer modules to assist them with increasing learning capability in all subject areas.
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Video Social Studies
Students write a social story. For this social story lesson, students write a social story which addresses a specified social skill or behavior. They write the story following the format that is given at an Internet link. They read the...
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World Autism Awareness Day
In this World Autism Awareness Day worksheet, students read or listen to a passage, then match phrases, fill in the blanks, choose correct words, unscramble words and sentences, write discussion questions and conduct a survey.
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Autism Spectrum Disorders: The New Rainbow
Students conduct research into the area of Autism Spectrum Disorders. They use the internet and a variety of resources in order to obtain information. Students use the information to take part in a writing project of authoring a new...
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Video Self Modeling to Teach Students with Autism Appropriate LIFE SKILLS
Use a video on self-modeling to practice life skills as part of an Autism activity. Students complete modeling activities and use a video activity to practice the life skills.
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Wheel of Fortune for Students with Multiple Disabilities
Students play Wheel of Fortune. In this Wheel of Fortune activity, students with disabilities play an online version of the game to earn rewards and small prizes. Students must solve math problems correctly in order to win.
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A is for Autism
Young scholars view a film that dicuss the unusual behaviour of the protagonist and narrator of the novel 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.' They discuss how Christopher has Asperger's Syndrome. Students discuss how...