You're Going to Love This Kid
Paula Kluth
Finally education professionals have a strategy-filled guidebook for including students with autism in both primary and secondary school classrooms. Alive with powerful first-person accounts that give readers insight into the experience of having autism, this book shows educators how to adapt their own classrooms to support student participation in classwork, school routines, social activities, and more. Paula Kluth combines relevant research with lessons learned from her teaching experience to give readers specific, creative ideas for:
· Understanding the attitudes, values, and actions that support inclusive schooling connecting, communicating, and collaborating effectively with families
· enhancing literacy by adapting reading materials, using visuals, and tapping in to student interests
· planning challenging, multidimensional lessons that encourage all students to participate and help students reach their individual goals
· supporting student behaviour in sensitive, positive ways
· fostering friendships and social relationships between students with and without autism
· adapting the physical environment for students with autism who may have heightened sensitivity to factors like temperature, sounds, and smells.
Filled with ready-to-use strategies and first-person stories from students with autism and their teachers, this fascinating and practical book gives educators new ways to understand students with autism — and help them participate in every aspect of classroom life.
Contents: Defining Autism; Understanding Inclusive Schooling; The Role of the Teacher: Attitudes, Values, and Actions that Support Inclusive Schooling; Connecting with Families; The Classroom Environment; Friendship, Social Relationships, and Belonging; Communication; Beyond Sight Words: Seeing Students with Autism as Literate; Rethinking Behavior: Positive Ways To Teach and Support; Inclusive Pedagogy: Planning Lessons in the Diverse Classroom; Teaching Strategies; Collaboration and Cooperation in the Inclusive School.
Published May 2003, 272 Pages, Paperback,
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