Teachers, parents, and community members can all find much valuable information on autismspeaks.org. Visitors to the site can find great links to resources. For educators, it provides teaching strategies to help students with autism.
Motivation is important. Keeping yourself motivated as a teacher and motivating your students with positive reinforcement strategies will help make your classroom enthusiastic about learning. Children with autism can be frustrated easily with negative feedback. Using assistive technology in the classroom will help your students with autism communicate their knowledge. They can use headphones with the technology, and that helps the student block out distractions in the environment. A Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) can help students with limited verbal communication skills express themselves. Using a set code of pictures for words and thoughts, the students can help make themselves understood. The autism genome database is revolutionary. By gathering genetic information worldwide, researchers have identified 18 new autism-linked genes, so far. This new database helps to better illustrate that autism affects the entire global community. I took the Light it Up Blue quiz on the website. I got 6 out of 6: I am a "Awesome Autism Advocate". The questions all pointed to the main idea: People with autism should be treated with dignity and respect. The website even has a link for parents to find autism-friendly events in their area. This gives the kids a place to go where the sensory input won't upset them, and it gives parents a way to gather with other parents who can appreciate what they are going through.
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