April is Autism Awareness month and I use this opportunity each year to further the knowledge and understanding of my school community. Like many special education classrooms, my class of students with autism is in a general education school setting. My students share the environment with their general education peers. When I started working here, […]
We still have a few more days left in April to continue to promote autism awareness and improve empathy and understanding. I mean of course we are promoting these year round but April you can really get some bang for your buck – people for some reason feel an extra incentive to listen and you […]
Reflecting back to past Aprils leaves me with some positive and some negative thoughts. Each year I do the Autism Speaks Walk as well as do some autism awareness activities throughout my school. It is great to see how year after year autism awareness gains momentum and voice. The walk has been larger than ever, […]
April is Autism Awareness month and I use this opportunity each year to further the knowledge and understanding of my school community. Like many special education classrooms, my class of students with autism is in a general education school setting. My students share the environment with their general education peers. When I started working here, […]
My principal asked the autism team to present at today’s staff development meeting. The administration included autism academic instruction and inclusion as part of the school year’s initiatives – very exciting to be included! The main point we tried to make in our presentation today was that our kids do learn academic skills. I swear […]