The General Education Teacher's Guide to Autism: Essential Answers to Key Questions

Your guide to supporting the special needs of children on the autism spectrum

Find the answers to all your autism-related questions in The General Education Teacher’s Guide to Autism: Essential Answers to Key Questions. From this informative, dynamic resource, you will collect practical strategies to address the common challenges facing these neurodiverse students in an inclusive environment, while also learning to celebrate the unique strengths and perspectives these students bring to the classroom.

Educators will:

• Learn to ease the anxieties that are present among students on the autism spectrum
• Discover ways to address executive function challenges that can contribute to disorganisation, impulsivity and learning difficulties
• Collect practical strategies for easing sensory stress in the classroom
• Gather strategies for capturing engagement and helping students assimilate knowledge in meaningful ways
• Understand speech, language and socialisation patterns and gather strategies for facilitating effective interaction
• Learn to decode disruptive behaviours and respond to them in differentiated ways that yield lasting change
• Cultivate ways to develop a classroom community that celebrates and embraces all kinds of diversity
• Explore the perspectives of parents and guardians of students on the spectrum to facilitate powerful partnerships and optimise outcomes for students