danuk wrote:
Tuttle wrote:
This seems all sorts of wrong. Wrong environment, wrong teaching style, what are they learning?
The first time I brought up the group situation I was told that they were learning from each other by sitting in a group.
They learn to (from what I've been told):
Recognise the face on a photo and match it to the student.
Appropriately interact when giving the photo to the student.
Self awareness when sung to????
A few makaton (sign) letters for the first letter in a students name.
To make a snack choice using a small set of photo's.
Bang a drum maybe in cooperation with the music teacher.
Play with sand and water/ therapy/relax.
...or in my view sit quietly like an obedient dog and bark at the right moment, whilst not visibly showing any personal dislikes as this is classed as poor behaviour. This is one of the other problems I have. There is clear intelligence with the students but they are all low verbal, and they are all to some degree (and in my view rightly) not accepting the lesson.
I agree that the setup is like dog training. There seems to be naught in the way of true learning. Maths? Sciences? History? Language or Grammar classes? Are these even being taught?
A heavier use of the Pictograms with more wide selection would also be helpful. I use a customised setup on my Handy and on a computer which has a picture menu that I touch to bring up sub menus (I can relay to Maintenance any problem with a machine (the things I am not officially allowed to fix, but I know how) by tapping an image of the machine and navigating the sub menu, which also has pictures and text). Clickers are really nice for classroom participation and can have multi-choice, True-False, short response and extended response texting formats.
It should be more focused on the students' abilities and not keeping them entertained until the parents can get them. Art can be a good way to encourage communication, especially for nonverbal Autistics.
danuk wrote:
All I keep thinking is the quote "the problem with trying to force a square peg in a round hole is that you end up damaging the peg"
And sometimes the hole. I shall not get started n all the things I destroyed trying to learn about them.
05 Feb 2014, 3:23 am
