What do you do when a three-year-old with autism falls on the floor kicking and screaming?
How do you communicate with a child who looks away and flaps his hands?
Who can help if you suspect a child in your class has autism?
Preschool can be overwhelming for a child with autism. Autism affects how a child communicates, behaves, and relates to others. Teachers need to know what they can do to help children with autism reach their full potential.
Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder is a straightforward, easy-to-understand guide to working with children who have autism. It explains the major characteristics associated with autism and helps teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world. Each chapter offers specific strategies for teachers to use, including setting up a proactive preschool environment, helping children learn life skills, managing behavior, helping children with autism communicate, encouraging children with autism to play, helping them to get along with others, and working with families. Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder helps teachers connect with all children in meaningful ways, allowing children with autism to learn and grow.
Chapters Include:
<ul>
<li>Putting All the Pieces Together: Understanding This Puzzle Called Autism </li>
<li>From Hand-Flapping to Obsession with Routines: The Way Children With Autism Relate to Their World </li>
<li>Planning for Success: Setting Up a Proactive Preschool Environment Learning Life Skills </li>
<li>Misbehavior or Missed Communication: Managing the Behaviors of Children With Autism </li>
<li>Signs, Symbols, and Language: Helping a Child Communicate </li>
<li>Inside Their Own World: Encouraging Children With Autism to Play </li>
<li>Building Social Skills: Getting Along With Others </li>
<li>Lights! Camera! Action! Sensory Integration and Autism </li>
<li>We're All in This Together: Teaming Up With Families </li>
</ul>

Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Parenting & Relationships

Willis, Clarissa

Parenting

Gryphon House

Easy-to-implement strategies for teaching infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs. Placing children with special needs in environments that include typically developing peers has become commonplace as continuing research confirms that all children benefit and learn from each other as well as from their teachers.Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs is written for all teachers and directors who work with infants, toddlers, and twos, including special educators and educators working with typically developing children. This book specifically addresses the needs of children with developmental delays, as well as children at risk for developing special needs. Each chapter includes information about how infants, toddlers, and twos learn. The strategies and adaptations in each chapter are easy to use and apply to all children. Examples are presented for managing the physical environment and for teaching skills that will enhance the overall development of infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs.

Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs

There are no words to describe the changes in the lives of families when they learn that a child they love has been diagnosed with autism. This book was written for those families. It explains autism in simple terms, discusses the major characteristics associated with autism, and offers simple strategies for helping children with autism function in their homes, at school, and in the community.

My Child Has Autism: What Parents Need to Know

Best-selling, award-winning authors Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis have teamed up to create this collection of 100 literacy lessons, designed to introduce children ages 3-6 to a variety of literacy concepts and build important literacy skills. Each of these simple, fun lessons offers adaptations for children with special needs, including:
<ul>
<li>Visual impairments </li>
<li>Hearing impairments </li>
<li>Cognitive challenges </li>
<li>Motor delays </li>
<li>Speech/language delays </li>
<li>Emotional/behavior issues </li>
</ul>
The first page of each two-page lesson features a learning objective, a literacy activity, extension activities, a daily reflection, and vocabulary. The second page has adaptations specific to the literacy lesson for children with special needs.
A great grab-and-use book for preschool teachers!

Inclusive Literacy Lessons for Early Childhood

Education & Teaching

Schiller, Pam

Schools & Teaching

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Young Children: What to Do on Monday Morning

This book provides information on common disabilities and practical strategies for creating inclusive environments and building student relationships.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Corwin

This book provides information on common disabilities and practical strategies for creating inclusive environments and building student relationships.

There are no words to describe how families feel when they learn that their child has been diagnosed with autism. This book was written for those families. It explains autism in simple terms, discusses the major characteristics associated with autism, and offers simple strategies for helping children with autism function in their homes, at school, and in the community. With the help of this book, families will begin to understand the puzzle called autism. It provides strategies for families to help their child: Learn to be independent; Build social skills; Succeed in school; Communicate with others While there is no cure for autism, there is hope. My Child Has Autism provides strategies that draw on the author's years of experience working with children with autism and their families, as a teacher, speech pathologist, early interventionist, and consultant. My Child Has Autism

My Child Has Autism: What Parents Need to Know: Easyread Large Edition

Safety & First Aid

ReadHowYouWant

Critter Crew to the Rescue

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Young Dragons

Critter Invasion (Critter Crew)

Nightmares can be scary.\nCorban has nightmares and the worst one is about creepy, crawly, slimy CRITTERS invading his house. He talks to his mom, his teacher, and even his best friend Jax and their advice only makes the nightmares worse. It is only when he learns to use his mind tools' that he is able to overcome his fears and get rid of the critters once and for all.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Lee Press

Product Description Nightmares can be scary.Corban has nightmares and the worst one is about creepy, crawly, slimy CRITTERS invading his house. He talks to his mom, his teacher, and even his best friend Jax and their advice only makes the nightmares worse. It is only when he learns to use his mind tools' that he is able to overcome his fears and get rid of the critters once and for all. From the Author Nightmares can really be scary. This is a fun book about some cute critters that invade a little boy's nightmares. More importantly, it helps young children face their fears and conquer them using tools they already have deep inside. The back matter contains some tips for parents and children about how to handle anxiety and get rid of Critters once and for all. About the Author Clarissa Willis has a PhD in Early Childhood Special Education and has written 19 teacher resource books and worked on major curriculum projects. She is an internationally known speaker in the field of early childhood education and inclusion of children with special needs. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern Indiana. Currently, she is working on the next Critter book in the series. Her passion is helping teachers create inclusive environments for all children. She lives in Southern Indiana with her dog, Mr. Ebenezer.Dylan Hale has been creating works of art since he was four years old. His passion for all things artistic has led him down some interesting career paths, including cake decorator, muralist, designing advisor, teacher, and most recently, an illustrator with Oghma Creative Media. A native of Bentonville, Arkansas, Dylan's heart lies in the classroom with his students. Graduating with his MFA in Art Education from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Dylan jumped headfirst into the teaching world. In Bentonville, he currently teaches graphic design to high schoolers and general art to 5th graders.

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Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs

My Child Has Autism: What Parents Need to Know

Inclusive Literacy Lessons for Early Childhood

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Young Children: What to Do on Monday Morning

Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Young Children: What to Do on Monday Morning

My Child Has Autism: What Parents Need to Know: Easyread Large Edition

Critter Crew to the Rescue

Critter Invasion (Critter Crew)

Critter Invasion (Critter Crew)