'Special Needs & Learning Disabilities' Series

Supporting Students with Autism in Mainstream School (Level 1)

Keywords: # understand ASD # what ASD person faces, eg deficiency in social communication & interaction, restricted & repetitive patterns of behaviour & interests, sensory issues, etc # strategies to support learning needs of ASD person # strategies to support social coping # strategies to support emotional coping, eg meltdown # use of social story # severity meter # comic strip conversations

Supporting Students with Autism in Mainstream School (Level 2)

Keywords: # review of intervention strategies taught in Level 1 # case formulation using ice-berg model # non-responsive students with ASD # students with rigid thinking & behaviour # students who avoid work and lash out easily # students who are pre-occupied, talking to himself and distracted # self-harm, suicide ideation # managing comorbidities # selective mutism # school refusal

Supporting Students with Dyslexia

Keywords: # learning disability types # taking an eclectic approach to teaching # best practice
the choice and use of intervention strategies, depending on the needs of the students # how to design intervention plans based on the presenting profile of different students # how to teach early/struggling readers # teach phonemic awareness and reading # strategies to improve reading comprehension and fluency # how to teach spelling and writing