CAN4GCA START Coaches Newsletter
January 2017
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all of our START Coaches. Hoping you and your families had a wonderful and restful Holiday Season!
Here's to a great 2017!
Early Childhood and Autism Spectrum Disorder Teaching Tips
Some of the top researchers in the country offer helpful tips and concepts to help you work with young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The tips are based on concepts of learning and development that can be worked into everyday routines. Each tip describes a concept, why the concept is important, and a step-by-step description of how to work these simple concepts into everyday routines. The concepts include:
• Engaging Children in Play
• Using Children’s Interests in Activities
• Promoting Child Participation with a Shared Agenda
• Using Visual Cues to Make Choices
• Playing Together with Objects: Practicing Joint Attention
• Learning Words During Joint Attention
• Book Sharing
• Uncovering Learning Potential
• Peer-Mediated Support: Teaching Children to Play with Each Other
• Predictable Spaces
• Predictable Routines
• Distracting and Redirecting Children to Engage in Appropriate Behavior
Although these tips were developed to help children with ASD, they can help all children grow and learn.
To learn more please go to the following link: www.acf.hhs.gov
This information is provided by the Early Childhood Development Office and Administration for Children and Families.
The Considerate Classroom
One: Strategies for Reading Aloud for Non-Verbal Students and Children with Special Needs
Two: Supporting Transitions with "Ready, Not ready".
Three: Lego Work Tasks for Early Building Play
You can connect to the Considerate Classroom Homepage here by clicking the link.
Enjoy!
MARK YOUR CALENDAR - CAN4GCA COACHES TRAINING
More information to come.
START Annual Conference
May 1, 2017
Statewide START Trainings
February 9 and 10, 2017
ASD Teacher Consultant Contact Information
Amy Chorley
Barb Olszewski