This document provides strategies and resources for students with autism spectrum condition. It lists apps, curriculum, websites and tools that can help with transitions, toilet training, and developing quality of life indicators. It also identifies strengths and challenges of students with autism. The document discusses creating a safe space for crisis situations and redirecting behaviors. It recommends behavioral approaches like video modeling, visual schedules, and reward systems.

2. Strategies for the Students with an
Autism Spectrum Condition
James Ball, Ed.D., B.C.B.A.-D.
Immediate Past Executive Chair
National Board
The Autism Society
President/Chief Executive Officer
JB Autism Consulting

3. Resources
◦ The Autism Society (www.autism-society.org)
◦ Autism Aspergers Digest (www.autismdigest.com)
◦ Future Horizons (www.fhautism.com)
◦ GRASP (www.grasp.org)

4. Apps
◦ See Me Go Potty
◦ Autismate/Oneder
◦ Model Me Kids
◦ Touch Math
◦ PDF Editor/Notability/Snap Type
◦ Class Dojo
◦ Remind – App for all call
◦ You Tube Kids

5. Curriculum
◦ Edmark
◦ Reading Milestones
◦ Touch Math
◦ Unique Learning
◦ Foldable's
◦ DTT/Task Analyzed Curriculum
◦ Skill Streaming

6. Web Sites
◦ Vanderbilt University Sex Ed for autism
◦ http://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/healthybodies/files/HealthyBodies-Boys-web.pdf
◦ http://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/healthybodies/files/HealthyBodies-Girls-web.pdf

7. Transitions
◦ Transition Objects
◦ Object Schedules
◦ Actual Pictures
◦ Generic Pictures
◦ Mayer Johnson Pictures
◦ Written Word
◦ Computer Aided Devices

8. Toilet Training
◦ Data
◦ Schedule
◦ Motivation
◦ Prompting
◦ Troubleshoot

9. Quality of Life Indicators
◦ Water Safety
-National Autism Association
◦ Toilet Training
-Early Intervention: Real Life Questions; Real Life Answers
◦ Ability to Follow Adult Direction Consistently
-One Step Directives
◦ Ability to Follow Picture Sequences
-Scheduling

10. Strengths
◦ Rule Driven
◦ Great Memorizers
◦ Learn through Repetition
◦ Overall “want” to Please
◦ Attention to Detail

11. Challenges
• Organizational Skills
• Anxiety
• Social Skills vs. Social Competence
• Sensory Issues
• Impulsivity
• “Theory of Mind”
• Literal Understanding
• Motivation
• Executive Functioning

12. Crisis Situations
◦ Create a Safe Place
◦ Direct the individual there every time the behavior occurs
◦ Keep redirecting the individual to that area until calm
◦ Define the area
◦ Try to catch the behavior before it’s “out of control”

13. Strategies
◦ Create the “safe place”
◦ Redirect non-verbally or through a functional task (i.e., bathroom,
drink/walk)
◦ Give appropriate “choices”

14. Behavioral Approaches
◦ Video Modeling
◦ “First”/”Then”
◦ Time Out Ribbon
◦ Social Narrative/Power Cards/Comic Strips
◦ Token/Point Systems
◦ Checklists
◦ Visuals/Drawings
◦ Motivational Systems
◦ Choice Making
◦ Rule Driven Systems
◦ Choice Boards
◦ Backward/Forward Chaining

15. www.jbautismconsulting.com