2. Organize and Provide
Structure
Students with ASD are visual vs. auditory learners.
Provide pictures and other visual cues across
environments.
Enhance understanding
Help organize and sequence
Help initiate activities
Help motivate
6. Concrete Thinking
Students with ASD tend to think concretely.
Often confused by social situations or conversations.
Lack understanding of ambiguous rules or rules that
don’t make sense.
Prefer familiarity (repetition, routine, consistency.
7. Interventions
Visual cues for rules and instructions.
Social Stories ™.
Learn by “doing” or role-play.
Error Correction – “Try again” with demonstration.
Highlighting appropriate behaviors and giving
social praise.
10. Details and Narrow
Interests
Students with ASD see the world in a more narrow
way and are more intensely focused on details and
narrow interests.
Hard to see the “big picture” which is necessary for
awareness of concepts, making connections,
generalizing and seeing things in context.
11. Interventions
Role play with analyzing what is “right and
wrong”.
Road Map.
Cause-and-Effect planned ignoring: “first get calm,
then I will talk with you”.
Use narrow interests to increase engagement.
12. Distractibility and Self
Regulation
Sensory stimulation can be disruptive to the
student.
Modify environments to decrease sensory
distractions or increase engagement.
Teach awareness and expression state of arousal.
13. Executive Functioning
Students with ASD have difficulty with cognitive
flexibility.
Cannot apply social rules flexibly.
Difficulty controlling impulses.
Difficulty with initiating activities, organizing and
sequencing tasks.
Provide structured routines and scaffold with
checklists.