Autism Support Toolkit: Visual Schedules and Sensory Strategies
Behavior is communication, and this 50-page guide helps you understand what a child is telling you, whether through a meltdown, a shutdown or a quiet retreat. It gives teachers, paraprofessionals and parents shared language and shared tools, so support looks the same at school and at home.
What's Inside
- Foundations: plain-language explanation of autism, myths vs. facts, and a strengths spotlight
- Support strategies: visual supports, routines and transitions without battles, sensory needs and in-class sensory tools, communication scripts, friendship and peer support
- Meltdown, shutdown, or tantrum: how to tell the difference
- Academic and inclusion supports: executive function help, flexibility with change, writing and reading supports, inclusion in general education, and collaboration with paraprofessionals
- Printable toolkit: visual schedule templates, first-then boards, calm plans, break cards, communication support cards, an ABC data tracker, and a transition plan template
- Real classroom scenarios and differentiation ideas
How It Helps You
- Gives the whole team, including paraprofessionals and families, one consistent approach
- Provides ready visual schedules, first-then boards and break cards
- Helps you collect ABC data and plan transitions with ready templates
Ways to Use It
Use the visual tools and calm plans in the classroom, share strategies with paraprofessionals and families, and bring the ABC data tracker and transition plan to team meetings.
Who It's For
General education teachers, special education teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents.
Format
Digital download, 50 pages. Instant download.
Need more than one?
If you support students across several disability areas, the other magazine-style guides cover each one in the same practical format. The Special Education Magazines Bundle includes this resource and more in one download, and you save 54% compared to buying each item separately.
