Hands-on teaching methods and projects for individuals with ASD

Want to Increase Reading?

When Liz had a classroom, she had a folder on the
classroom door with a riddle or joke of the day. The question was on the front and the flap
needed to be lifted to find out the answer or punch line. Later, the shop teacher made a more permanent
fixture where the text could be slid in under the plexiglass!

Kids used it and checked back the next day, even if
it was out of their way. It worked!

There’s a wonderful selection of G-rated jokes,
riddles, and knock-knocks at www.kidsjokes.co.uk
as well as many other sites.

The kidsjokes site is really great for kids with ASD
since it makes them work through the language that makes it funny and also has
some jokes listed by ‘special interest.’

This can have a home application, too. A folded sheet of notepaper on the
refrigerator door can be to go-to spot to read just a little more every day.

Helping students with ASD do math problems

Many students with ASD struggle with executive function
issues as well as problems with graphomotor skills when they are doing academic
work. 

Sometimes, putting math problems on graph paper helps
clarify and organize the work for them so they can focus on the concepts.

We spent time and money creating different sizes of graph
paper to individualize this, but there is a website where you can make them for
free. They have lots of other resources on the site, too.

Thanks, Incompetech!

Look at www.incompetech.com

For our Broome County New York Friends

For an excellent booklet on all the services for persons
with developmental disabilities and their families we recommend you download a
copy of a booklet that was prepared by the Persons with Developmental
Disabilities subcommittee of the Broome County Community Services Board.
This booklet was produced with the help of a Broome Community College intern.
It is very well done and easy to use. We send our congratulations.

Go to: www.gobroomecounty.com/mh/mrdd
and then click on booklet entitled: Broome County’s Guide to Services for
Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Their Families .


This task helps students match descriptive sentences with the images they describe

This is an activity we made for a young teen whose special interest is the Shrek movies and characters.

 This student’s program is moving more toward pre-voc and life skills, but we need to keep his reading skills growing. The task requires that he reads all the sentence strips and then selects the four that match the pictures on the right. The sentences are complex enough that he has to read each one and not just scan for key words.

 This was simple to format and put together and has the motivation of a special interest built in. The themes and sentences can be varied easily.