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Problem Solving

Structured Teaching Model

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• See the world through the autism lens

• Understand • Your Student’s

autism

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The Iceberg Analogy

What we see may be caused by what we cannot see.

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What is Under the Waterline

Problem Behaviors

Anxiety

Frustration

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Lack of understanding

Lack of predictability

Lack of structure

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Understand Autism

• What is the reason for the behavior– Difficulties Communication – Difficulties Sensory– Difficulties Organizational Difficulties– Difficulties Need for Sameness– Difficulties Social Difficulties– Difficulty with Skill Mastery

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Issues to consider

Sensory IssuesRigidityNeed for samenessUnderstandingStructurePredictability

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TEACCH Interventions

Teach Emotional Regulation by: •Physical Structure•Visual cues/schedules•Sensory Strategies•First then Strategies•Understanding the Autism•?????

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Does the student understand expectations:

– What am I doing, where am I going?– How much, how long, how to?– When am I finished– What happens next?

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Is it Visual

• Picture• Demonstration• Manipulate• Writing• Gesture• Highlight

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What is in it for Me

• Reinforcement– Tangible– Tokens– Social

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What is in it for Me

• Reinforcement

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Strategies to Help1. Be Flexible and Offer Choices

2. Calm place/Develop routines when upset

3. Wait Card/Place to do things

4. If the child is upset stop talking and use nonverbal means to communicate.

5. Prepare ahead of time for transitions and changes

6. Make the beginnings and endings very clear

7. Make EXERCIZE part of the daily routine

8. Visual cues and schedules

9. Use child’s interest to motivate

10.Turn down lights and, keep noise to a minimum

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14Ruth Fuller and Sue McCarther

Autism Behavior

PROBLEM:Adapted from form developed by Ruth Fuller and Sue McCarter TEACCH, North Carolina.

How autism could effect this behavior:

•Communication

•Reciprocal Social Interaction

•Repetitive Behavior

•Sensory Issues

•Motor Planning

Elements from structured teaching that could help: