The Autism Project
RTLB services
Pasifika Fonofale Model
Strengthening relationships with parents/family is very important.
7 Core ideas of communication
Receptive communication - communication coming in.
Difficulties with auditory processing
Difficulties with comprehension e.g. attach meaning to words, difficulty interpreting faces etc.
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3. Joint attention - ability to coordinate attention between people and objects. Once you get joint attention you’re more likely to get compliance.
4. Symbol use - use conventional gestures and understanding and using the conventional meaning of words. Use objects in play. Make these to communicate with Sam especially.
5. Social pragmatic skills - speaking in socially appropriate ways. (difficulties with prosody - rate, rhythm, inflection and volume -intonation-)
6. Echollalia - the repetition of words or phrases spoken by someone else. Usually an imitation in order to communicate.
7. Unconventional behaviours - children who do not develop fluent communication skills may use inappropriate or unconventional behaviours such as aggression or self-injury as means of communication. What could I replace the wall for for Sam.
Communication Checklist
PECS
Social Stories
Fringes - top of the core board.
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Importance of Visuals - Andrea RTLB
They enhance predictability, facilitates transitions including time, and helps convey expectations.
Anxiety of not knowing is many times more than a neurotypical person.
No often means no i’m not ready yet. Visuals help with this.
There is an Autism culture - Their normal and gravitating towards others who are like them.
Don’t have an emotional response to all the labels in your classroom.
Is your class schedule eye level?
What would be better down the board or across the bottom
Individual schedules.
Visuals need to be accessible.
Stop interrupting, wait.
Level of symbolic functioning - 1 concrete, 2 photo, 3 pictorial
Photographs for routines.
Chunking - breaking a task down.
Step by step (for maths do…)
Example with student
CAOS (communication, attention, order, system) Framework and expanded curriculum and formulate goals.
Numicon
Colourful semantics-oral language focus moving into writing.
Individual schedule with a timer-importance of a timer.
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