Autism Spectrum Disorders
(Last Updated May 11, 2020)
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- Information and learning about Autism
- ASHA's Autism Practice Portal (http://www.asha.org/Practice-Portal/Clinical-Topics/Autism/)
- Free Autism Materials - fact sheets, resource kits, growth chart and more from the Center for Disease Control. (https://search.cdc.gov/search/?query=Free+Autism+Materials&sitelimit=&utf8=%E2%9C%93&affiliate=cdc-main)
- Strategies for Teaching Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (http://web.archive.org/web/20071118184748/http://members.aol.com/Room5/strat.html)
- Moving Toward Functional Social Competence - 29 page PDF, includes data collection recording forms. (https://nesc.k12.sd.us/resources/Moving%20Towards%20Functional%20Social%20Competence.pdf)
- Pragmatic issues
- Educate Autism (http://www.educateautism.com/) by Gavin Cosgrave has many free teaching aids for working with children with autism, including pictures of emotions.
- Do2Learn (www.do2learn.com/) has free worksheets for social/emotional skills (under "activities"), a very interesting Emotions Color Wheel with definitions and facial expressions. Explore several additional treasures including
- Facial expressions (www.do2learn.com/games/facialexpressions/face.htm)
- The Feelings Game (https://www.do2learn.com/games/feelingsgame/index.htm)
- Texas AutismCircuit has many free materials to download with explanation how to use, under the heading TOOLSExpression cards (www.senteacher.org/Worksheet/40/Prosopagnosia.xhtml) from SEN Teacher free printables (www.senteacher.org/Print/)
- Emotions dice (https://www.earlylearninghq.org.uk/class-management/sen/emotions-dice-editable-text/)
- Emotions - has 12 face pictures, 24 emotion cards, a crossword puzzle and a word search puzzle and ideas for using them.(http://web.archive.org/web/20070614040746/http://www.johnsesl.com/printables/emotions/emotions.pdf) free printables (www.senteacher.org/Print/)
- Make Beliefs Comix (www.makebeliefscomix.com/)
- Free Feeling Bingo Cards (https://dorkydoodles.com/blogs/the-blog/77917445-free-printable-bingo-game-about-feelings#content)
- Social Stories
- Anatomy of A Conversation: Social Scripts Suggested Conversational Messages (www.lburkhart.com/chat_ideas.htm) by Linda J. Burkhart and Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite
- Sample Sequenced Social Scripts (www.lburkhart.com/chat_scripts.htm) by Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite
- Strategies to reduce repetitive questions (https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/articles/long-and-short-term-strategies-for-reducing-specific-repetitive-questions.html)
- Free "Educational Videos for Students with Autism & Intellectual Disabilities (w/Boardmaker)" by Pat Noonan
- Using picture symbols
- Symbol World (www.symbolworld.org/index.htm) - a monthly magazine, stories, recipes, etc. for symbol readers
- Widgit Resources (www.widgit.com/resources/index.htm) - symbol-supported learning materials and symbol stories
- Picture Recipes (www.bry-backmanor.org/picturerecipes.html) from Bry-Back Manor (www.bry-backmanor.org/)
- Beyond Autism Pecs Pictures and Icons (http://trainland.tripod.com/pecs.htm)
- Over 500 free DVD pecs of children's favorite movies available on this commercial site that sells grocery and toy pecs (http://www.grocerypecs.com/dvd%20pecs.htm)
- Additional materials
- ABA Educational Resources (www.abaresources.com) provides many free downloads including Thematic Token Economy Boards
- Autism Games (www.autismgames.org)
- FANTASTIC GIFT of Activities and Templates from Simone Buckley of RampUpEdu who created these freely-available materials for assisting in providing materials for online services. Contains many social stories and so much more!!!
