Combining their years of experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum, both here and around the world, authors Vera Bernard-Opitz and Anne Häußler bring teachers and other professionals practical ideas and teaching methods for offering visual supports to students with autism spectrum disorders and other visual learners. With hundreds of colorful illustrations and step-by-step directions, this book lays the foundation for how to structure teaching environments, as well as offers countless examples of activities for students, ranging from basic skills, to reading and math, to social behavior.
Fully illustrated with inspiring examples, this book provides a wealth of ideas for creating visual support aids for children on the autism spectrum.
Most of us use visual supports in our daily lives--for example, a shopping list, calendar, or a roadmap. Visual supports are particularly beneficial to people with autism because they help...
By writing narratives that celebrate achieved skills or other positive aspects of the individual 152 VISUAL SUPPORTS FOR VISUAL THINKERS Writing an effective narrative Guidelines for writing narratives.
Making Visual Supports Work is exploding with practical ideas for daily living with a child with Asperger Syndrome.
Describes many types of visual supports and visual strategies that support informational, behavioral, and communication necessary in the education of students with autism spectrum disorders.
Practical supports for school and home: contains interactions for students who experience autism and other moderate to severe communication disorders. A "how-to" book, designed to assist teachers, speech-language pathologists, and...
"Comic Strip Conversations are based on the belief that visualization and visual supports, found useful in structuring the learning of students with autism, may also improve their understanding and comprehension of conversation ... the use ...
In The TEACCH Approach to Autism Spectrum Disorders, the program’s founders and their colleagues explain its methods and philosophy based on an understanding and respect for "the culture of autism.
Visuals of all kinds (photographs, checklists, line drawings, cartoons, flowcharts, stick figures, etc.) are commonly used as supports for individuals on the autism spectrum who tend to think and learn visually.
This revised edition has been recreated in a lighter, brighter format. Most of the concepts that were presented in the original edition are the same in this revised version but different materials have been used for the featured tasks.