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✅ Teacher assistants crucial: Vital support for students with special needs.
✅ Independence is key: Work towards student self-reliance in tasks.
✅ Teach coping strategies: Help students manage frustration and anxiety.
✅ Timing matters: Schedule support when students are most engaged.
✅ Avoid fostering helplessness: Encourage students to attempt tasks first.
✅ Use visual aids: Employ highlighters and traffic light strategy.
✅ Build relationships: Develop rapport through shared interests with students.

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✅ Teacher Assistant Appreciation Week: Recognizing valuable support in education.
✅ Self-care crucial: Assistants encouraged to celebrate daily achievements.
✅ Anxiety management: Strategies for students anxious about making mistakes.
✅ Independence promotion: Gradually fade direct support for student growth.
✅ Behavior solutions: Book recommendations for addressing challenging behaviors.
✅ Collaboration challenges: Addressing teacher-assistant relationship difficulties.
✅ Consistent support: Benefits of maintaining the same assistant for students.

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✅ Ruth's school celebrates 60 years of innovation.
✅ Focus on student independence and community access.
✅ Implemented authentic pedestrian crossing for safety training.
✅ Created mini Woolworths for practical shopping skills.
✅ Introduced immersive classroom for interactive learning.
✅ Gym installed for physical health and community integration.
✅ School dog aids in therapy and comfort for students.

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✅ Kids with autism often drink whole bottles at once.
✅ Many kids with autism toilet time, not toilet train.
✅ Specialist schools monitor drinking, eating, and toileting.
✅ Mainstream schools need inclusive policies for sensory needs.
✅ Increased drinks at school require more toilet breaks.
✅ Sensory issues often cause school toilet avoidance.
✅ Grazing snacks can help with concentration and regulation.

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✅ The Friendship Pyramid – Understanding Phases of Friendships
✅ 20 Fun Social-Emotional Activities for Every Classroom
✅ Conversation Skills: From Start to Finish
✅ Exploring appropriate ways to interrupt and respond to interruptions
✅ Importance of teaching Winning and Losing
✅ The Hidden Language of Social Cues: Nonverbal Communication
✅ How & Why to Create a display of students’ facial expressions for different emotions
✅ Helping children know when to “dob” ie “when to tell” and “not to tell” a teacher

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✅ Creating personalized playground plans with students is crucial.
✅ Template for playground plans provided.
✅ Template for Stop, Think, Do activities provided.
✅ Understanding “Dobbing” and when to tell is important.
✅ Eliza shares how social prep reduces anxiety.
✅ Brainstorming and posters for social knowledge help.
✅ Implementing playground clubs and calm areas is beneficial.

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✅ Open communication with picture books aids ADHD understanding.
✅ Explain ADHD early to help children understand themselves.
✅ ADHD presents unique challenges for girls and women.
✅ Support girls with ADHD using classroom strategies.
✅ Collaborate with girls on individualized support plans.
✅ Prioritize mental health for students with ADHD.
✅ Bella shares her experience managing ADHD and how her diagnosis changed her HSC exam process.

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✅ Neurodiverse students need tailored accommodations and adjustments.
✅ Effective rewards motivate neurodiverse students.
✅ Tokens are visual, kinesthetic, and consistent rewards.
✅ Downloadable tips for using token systems.
✅ Caution with praise and rewards for PDA, ODD.
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✅ Token reward systems reinforce positive behaviour.

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✅ Understanding Meltdown Phases: Recognizes the stages from buildup to crisis.
✅ Calming Strategies: Offers methods to reduce anxiety and stress.
✅ Importance of Silence: Emphasizes giving space for self-regulation.
✅ Communication Alternatives: Advises against using "No" to prevent escalations.
✅ Seizure Comparison: Treats meltdowns with similar caution and care.
✅ Post-Meltdown Actions: Discusses reflection and preventive strategies.
✅ Recognizing Signs: Stresses the importance of knowing individual triggers.

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✅ Starting with the end in mind
✅ The 50/50 Learning & Behaviour Plan
✅ Modelling behaviour and demonstrating Plan B’s
✅ Encouraging independence with timers, visuals and schedules
✅ Using 3 Rs – rewards, repetition and routines

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✅ Diagnosis / Identifying Signs of Autism
✅ Tips for Toileting
✅ Creating Communication Enriched Environments (non-verbal children)
✅ Different Ways of Teaching
✅ Why and How to Use Visuals
✅ Being a Supportive Communication Partner
✅ Use Rewards and Special Interests to Motivate and Engage in Learning
✅ 11 Common Signs of Sensory Processing Disorder or Difficulties
✅ Using Sensory Tools to Improve Learning & Behaviour

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✅ Sequence Mastery: Order and routine enhance learning.
✅ Recipe Writing: Develops structured observation and writing skills.
✅ Social Cooking: Teaching others fosters communal bonds.
✅ Sensory Desensitization: Cooking valuable without eating.
✅ Motor Skills Development: Enhances stirring, flipping abilities.
✅ Backward Chaining Importance: Essential for skill acquisition.
✅ Cooking Tips: Simplified tools and techniques provided.

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✅ Handwriting struggles can lead to educational disengagement.
✅ Typing isn't always a viable alternative to handwriting.
✅ Occupational therapists can assist with handwriting strategies.
✅ Eye fatigue can impact handwriting focus and quality.
✅ Different handwriting approaches suit different student needs.
✅ Handwriting and typing require distinct skill sets.
✅ Encouraging practice improves handwriting, but perfection isn't guaranteed.

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✅ Understanding Screen Addiction: Reduces screen time from 16 to 1 hour.
✅ Types of Screen Addiction: Gaming, internet, group chats, and creative escape.
✅ Ownership Importance: Kids acknowledge problem to start fixing it.
✅ Alternative Activities: Promotes learning, exercise, and healthy routines.
✅ Collaborative Solutions: Use CPS for managing screen time.
✅ Routine and Diet: Essential for managing screen addiction.
✅ Teamwork in Recovery: Involves family, friends, and professionals.

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✅ Neurodiversity celebrates neurological differences instead of disabilities or disorders.
✅ Ask individuals about their preferred terminology for their condition.
✅ Learn about neurodiversity through movies, TV shows, and online.
✅ Make learning fun by accommodating different learning styles.
✅ Avoid overstimulation by limiting choices and verbal instructions.
✅ Be clear, concise, and concrete when communicating.
✅ Understand sensory processing difficulties are part of neurodiversity.

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✅ PDA: Unique autism spectrum type.
✅ PDA vs ODD: Distinct differences.
✅ Misunderstood Nature: PDA children struggle with demands.
✅ Relationship Building: Share experiences, no hierarchies.
✅ Teaching Strategy Shift: Traditional methods may fail.
✅ Avoid Power Struggles: Offer choices, focus on consequences.
✅ Flexibility Key: Regularly change strategies, maintain engagement.

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✅ Time Blindness Defined: Inability to perceive time accurately.
✅ Behavior Indicators: Procrastination, lateness, or anxiety.
✅ Making Time Visible: Use visual and accessible time aids.
✅ Managing Anxiety: Equip with time management tools.
✅ Routines Matter: Establish routines to sense time's passage.
✅ Success Equation: Now, next, later plus schedule equals success.
✅ Support Like Colorblindness: Make time support as accessible.

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✅ Teacher's Role: Highlight, don't diagnose issues.
✅ 8 Steps Discussed: Detailed process for diagnosis conversation.
✅ Red Flags: Identify potential diagnosis indicators.
✅ Diagnosis Importance: Benefits of getting a diagnosis explained.
✅ Tone of Caring: First impressions are critical in meetings. 
✅ Share Positives: Begin with the child's achievements. 
✅ Collaborative Approach: Value families' insights and opinions.

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✅ Act as a student-world translator.
✅ Encourage student relationship bonds.
✅ Be a consistent presence.
✅ Enhance, not replace, teaching.
✅ Collaborate with teachers.
✅ Contribute creative learning ideas.
✅ Facilitate peer connections.

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✅ What is Executive Functioning: Described as the brain's "Air Traffic Control" for organizing, prioritizing, and regulating emotions.
✅ Impacts on Learning: Impaired Executive Function significantly affects students with autism, impacting their ability to learn and engage in busy environments.
✅ Emotional Control: Techniques include using sensory tools, emotion cards, and social scripts for improving behaviour and emotional regulation.
✅ Impulse Control: Redirection, prewarning about rules, and the use of social scripts to manage impulsivity.
✅ Planning & Prioritizing: Utilizing visual supports, individual planning sessions, and breaking tasks into smaller steps to enhance organization and goal achievement.
✅ Organizing: Implementing systems for organization, minimizing clutter, and using visual reminders for keeping track of items and information.
✅ Task Initiation: Partnering with peers, simplifying instructions, and employing strategies like the Traffic Light Strategy to help start tasks.
✅ Flexibility: Using timers, routines, and prewarnings to assist with transitions and changes in activities or plans.
✅ Working Memory: Incorporating visuals, modelling tasks, co-active participation, and simplifying instructions to support memory and task completion.

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✅ ASD Criteria in DSM-5: Defines autism diagnostic requirements.
✅ Early Signs Vital: Symptoms must manifest in early childhood.
✅ Severity Levels Classified: Autism categorized into three severity levels.
✅ Comprehensive Assessment Essential: Evaluates communication, behavior, and sensory sensitivities.
✅ Co-occurring Conditions Frequent: Often accompanies ADHD, anxiety, OCD.
✅ Diagnostic Tools and Judgment: ADOS-2, ADI-R, and clinical insight.
✅ Girls' Diagnosis Often Missed: Masking leads to underdiagnosis in girls.

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✅ Structure Classroom for Behaviour Management: Optimize layout to minimize disruptions.
✅ Quick Classroom Adjustments: Implement strategic student positioning.
✅ Maximize Support Time: Efficient use of teaching assistants and resources.
✅ Leverage Student Strengths: Utilize strengths to mitigate stress.
✅ Social and Emotional Support: Enhance social and emotional well-being.
✅ Identify Disengagement Causes: Recognize reasons behind behavior issues.
✅ Effective POWER Strategies: Apply impactful techniques for classroom success.

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✅ The 13 Most Important Strategies
✅ Bonus 5 Proactive/Prevent Strategies Often Missed
✅ How To Support Motor Skills Development in A Busy Classroom (& Why it matters!)
✅ Key Elements for your Individual Education Plans (IEPs)
✅ Anxiety Management = Time Management – Top Tips
✅ Special Bonus – Key To Get the Best out of Students with ADHD
✅ 21 Surprising Ways Timers can get support Students engage & Succeed
✅ Pit Falls & Common Mistakes Made using Timers
✅ How and Why to Use Visual in Classroom Preparation for Different Learning Styles
✅ Interoception – the impact and what Educators can do about it
✅ Solutions/Ideas to Sensory Processing Disorder or Difficulties in the Classroom
✅ 9 Essential Strategies for Homework
✅ 6 Key Strategies for Quick Results in Secondary School

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✅ Diagnosing is challenging, especially for explaining to friends.
✅ Focus on specific book sections for tailored explanations.
✅ Girls may struggle to articulate their diagnosis to others.
✅ Diagnosis understanding varies with age and insight level.
✅ Peer-specific language helps girls explain their diagnosis.
✅ Teachers must be discreet and supportive when helping girls.
✅ Understanding the girls' behavior patterns is essential for support.

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✅ Why use repetition
✅ How to us repetition across all ages and stages
✅ Why use routines
✅ Key routines to support engagement
✅ Why repetition and routines will save you time
✅ Quick tips and strategies to implement this week

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✅ Sue Larkey books (pg 2)
✅ Visual Supports (pg 5)
✅ Social Skills (pg 6)
✅ Understanding Behaviour (pg 8)
✅ Anxiety & Mental Health (pg 9)
✅ Early Years (page 10)
✅ Helping Children Manage their Emotions (pg 11)
✅ Teaching Children about Autism Spectrum (page 12)
✅ DHD- Organising & Planning (page 13)
✅ Teen Years & Beyond (pg 15)
✅ Puberty & Sex Education (page 16)
✅ Sensory Books (pg 17)
✅ Sensory Tools (pg 18)
✅ Workshops (pg 19)

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✅ Effective Classroom Behaviour Management
✅ Anchor Points for High-Needs Children
✅ Roadmaps as Daily Guides
✅ Springboards for Skill Building
✅ Regular Check-Ins and Regulation Breaks
✅ Whole-School Consistent Language and Expectations
✅ Personalized Plans for Each Child
✅ Check Engine for Optional Support

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✅ Simple Phrases for Classroom Management A set of simple phrases to manage classroom dynamics effectively.
✅ Restorative Teaching Emphasizing self-management and relationship restoration in teaching using practical strategies for student engagement.
✅ Promoting Student Self-Regulation Strategies to develop self-regulation in students.
✅ Developing a Strong Teacher-Student Connection: Building trust and connection as a foundation for effective teaching.
✅ Incorporating Love Languages in the Classroom: Using love languages to create a sense of connection and understanding.
✅ Understanding and Utilizing the Safety Stool Concept: A tool to assess and address student needs based on neuroscience principles.
✅ Preparation for Transition and Change: Strategies to help students cope with changes and transitions.

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✅ NDIS supports children with disabilities, including financial assistance.
✅ Focuses on six functional domains: learning, socialization, communication, self-care.
✅ Preparation and understanding are key in NDIS navigation.
✅ Set realistic, child-specific short and long-term goals.
✅ Educators vital in supporting children's NDIS applications.
✅ Teachers assess, develop IEPs, and provide documentation.
✅ Understand options: NDIA managed, plan managed, self-managed.

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✅ Leverage Intense Interests for Career Planning
✅ Embrace Neurodivergent Passions as Strengths
✅ Encourage Entrepreneurial Skills in Autistic Students
✅ Utilize Volunteering as a Stepping Stone to Employment
✅ Promote Self-Knowledge and Positive Identity in Autistic Youth
✅ Understand and Respect Autistic Communication Styles
✅ Acknowledge the Exhaustion from ‘Masking’ in Neurodivergent Students

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✅ Leverage Intense Interests for Career Planning
✅ Embrace Neurodivergent Passions as Strengths
✅ Encourage Entrepreneurial Skills in Autistic Students
✅ Utilize Volunteering as a Stepping Stone to Employment
✅ Promote Self-Knowledge and Positive Identity in Autistic Youth
✅ Understand and Respect Autistic Communication Styles
✅ Acknowledge the Exhaustion from ‘Masking’ in Neurodivergent Students

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✅ What made the biggest difference (link to my book)
✅ What advice she would give other parents
✅ Why it was so important to get her twins out of nappies
✅ How different the twins were in what worked
✅ Importance of preschool and friends in helping with toileting

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✅ What worked and didn’t work
✅ Who needs to know about the diagnosis
✅ Why people need to know
✅ How much should I share?
✅ Top Tips for Disclosing Diagnosis
✅ Why you shouldn’t hide your child’s diagnosis from them
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✅ Understand Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA): It’s a unique autism type that requires a different approach.
✅ The differences between PDA and ODD.
✅ PDA is often misunderstood – these children want to do well but struggle with demands.
✅ Build relationships through sharing experiences and following their interests. No hierarchies.
✅ Re-evaluate teaching strategies: Traditional autism strategies may not work for PDA students.
✅ Avoid power struggles by giving choices and focusing on natural consequences.
✅ Help manage meltdowns.
✅ Always offer a fresh start after difficulties.
✅ Make requests carefully – share demands and use clear choice language.
✅ Provide structure but allow autonomy within it. Be flexible day-to-day.
✅ For toileting, use subtle language about your own toileting and make it into a game.
✅ Strategies wear out quickly with PDA so keep mixing them up.
✅ Have confidence you can do it – small changes make a big difference!

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✅ Encouraging Participation: Temple's approach increases engagement.
✅ Real Choices Matter: Offer children genuine options.
✅ Avoid Surprises: Forewarn to reduce anxiety.
✅ Gradual Exposure: Introduce new activities slowly.
✅ Embrace Failure: Teach kids it's okay to fail.
✅ Consistent Support: Provide a loving push.
✅ Break Tasks Down: Simplify and tackle step-by-step.

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✅ Discuss differences during diverse holiday celebrations.
✅ Tips for neurodiverse children during stressful holiday events.
✅ Newsletter includes 14 tips for an inclusive holiday season.
✅ Activities to understand individuality, like the "different fish" display.
✅ Use cooking to teach and celebrate cultural diversity.
✅ Gift ideas for autistic children, focusing on sensory-friendly options.
✅ Strategies for creating calming spaces at school and home.

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✅ Use Timers: Implement timers to manage time and encourage students to observe clocks
✅ Visuals and Signing: Utilize visual aids and signing for enhanced communication.
✅ Pre-warning for Changes: Always inform students beforehand about upcoming changes.
✅ Structured Scheduling: Develop a schedule that includes vital information for the student.
✅ Routine Consistency: Maintain consistent routines and set clear expectations.
✅ Sensory Awareness: Be cognisant of sensory triggers and adjust the environment accordingly.
✅ Control and Understanding: Use schedules to provide a sense of control and understanding of upcoming activities.

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ Tips for transitions: preschool to secondary and more.
✅ Solutions for absent on-site school visits.
✅ Key strategies for teachers, assistants, families.
✅ Sensory challenges in new 2024 classroom settings.
✅ "I’m Going to School": Visual prep for new students.
✅ Overcome social challenges with Anna Tullemans & Rhonda Dixon's book
✅ Teach Assistants Big Red Book: Ideas for classroom setup, transitions.

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✅ Collaborate on a detailed transition plan with all stakeholders.
✅ Utilize cheat sheets for essential child-specific information.
✅ Foster self-advocacy skills in the child.
✅ Be mindful of sensory sensitivities.
✅ Provide time warnings before activity shifts.
✅ Limit key information to a single, concise document.
✅ Use comprehensive programs to address varied transition needs.

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✅ Transitions can induce anxiety in children with autism.
✅ Change may involve teacher, room, or student cohort shifts.
✅ Autism makes any transition, big or small, stressful.
✅ New classroom settings likened to "foreign countries" for autistic kids.
✅ Language and behavioral cues differ between old and new settings.
✅ Effective planning can mitigate transition-induced stress and behavior.
✅ Transition strategies help reduce anxiety and improve adaptation.

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ Learning and emotional coping in children.
✅ Yearly trends in emotional regulation and behaviour. 
✅ Age and behaviour, focusing on seven-year-olds. 
✅ Emotional status and anxious tendencies in children.
✅ Diverse experiences and behaviours in kids.
✅ Emotional and academic aspects in a school setting.
✅ Executive functioning and course-related issues in kids.

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ Activities and exercises for self-awareness and self-control
✅ The importance of a consistent program in teaching emotional regulation
✅ Whole class activities on emotional regulation
✅ How to individualise activities for unique children
✅ How to use visuals
✅ Importance of a positive environment
✅ The Red Beast Picture Book is suitable for 5-9 years & The Red Beast Workbook 5-10 years

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✅ Guest Author Lauren Bruckner shares top tips for empowering children through mindfulness autism spectrum by using her picture book to help children 4+ years and up understand and regulate their emotions
✅ Create a classroom display using the templates provided
✅ Teach children to “zap” feelings away using their “Boss of Emotions Wand”
✅ Lauren Bruckner: Occupational Therapist, Author and Emotional Literacy Advocate
✅ Creating Magical Superpowers: Teaching Children Self-regulation”
✅ Embracing Big Emotions: Ensuring Kids Know It’s Okay to Feel”

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ Introduction to AI Assistants: Brief overview of ChatGPT and other AI tools, explaining their functionality and operation.
✅ AI-Driven Accommodations: Discussion on how AI can create accommodations, especially for executive functioning challenges, and other potential accommodations AI can generate.
✅ Lesson Adaptation: Highlighting the innovative approach of adapting a planets lesson using Minecraft as an example.
✅ Simplifying Concepts: Emphasis on AI's capability to break down complex topics, illustrated by the example of summarizing an accounting document.
✅ Anxiety Reduction with AI: Explanation of how AI can offer multiple resource choices to alleviate anxiety.
✅ AI Tips for Supporting Neurodiverse Students: A rundown of top 10 tips, from providing clear prompts to exploring tools like BARD for updated information.
✅ Andrew's Insight: Quoting Andrew's perspective that AI assistants act as a highly intelligent personal assistant, aiding in generating ideas, content, and resources.

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ When to Start Transition
✅ How Long should you do Transition
✅ Must Do for successful Transition
✅ Ideal to Do as part of Planning
✅ Extra Ideas to support Transition
✅ What do to if Transition wasn’t Successful
✅ Plus information on Vaping, Catching the Bus and more

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ Strategies Behind Temple Grandin’s Successful Life.
✅ Reasons To Use Visuals to Communicate.
✅ Use Visuals to Increase Engagement.
✅ Use Special Interests to Motivate Students.
✅ Essential Tip to Keep a Student On Task.
✅ Subtle Signs of Anxiety in Students.
✅ Harness Preventative Breaks for Better Outcomes.

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ Understand Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA): It’s a unique autism type that requires a different approach.
✅ The differences between PDA and ODD.
✅ PDA is often misunderstood – these children want to do well but struggle with demands.
✅ Build relationships through sharing experiences and following their interests. No hierarchies.
✅ Re-evaluate teaching strategies: Traditional autism strategies may not work for PDA students.
✅ Avoid power struggles by giving choices and focusing on natural consequences.
✅ Help manage meltdowns.
✅ Always offer a fresh start after difficulties.
✅ Make requests carefully – share demands and use clear choice language.
✅ Provide structure but allow autonomy within it. Be flexible day-to-day.
✅ For toileting, use subtle language about your own toileting and make it into a game.
✅ Strategies wear out quickly with PDA so keep mixing them up.
✅ Have confidence you can do it – small changes make a big difference!

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ How to help students who don’t like making mistakes
✅ How to help students who don’t like to lose a game
✅ How to ensure you are not “helping” too much when supporting a student
✅ How to help an absconder?
✅ How to help students who “shutdown”
✅ How to accommodate a student who is stamping his feet as a stim?
✅ How to assist a student with dysgraphia, with no technology at all
✅ How to work with teachers and be collaborative?
✅ How to help staff and students understand PDA?
✅ How to support non-verbal children communicate?

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ Traditional vs Special Needs Strategies
✅ Golden Rules of Autism Support
✅ Alternative Approaches
✅ Theory of Mind Consideration
✅ Positive Alternatives to Consequences
✅ Structured Guidance for Various Challenges
✅ Holistic Focus on Teaching Replacement Behaviors

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In this episode, we will discuss:

✅ What Role do Sensory Solutions have in De-escalating Behaviour & Increasing Participation?
✅ Benefits of a Simple Sensory Programme in your Classroom
✅ What is SPD?
✅ How to Identify Students who could have SPD
✅ Checklist to Identify Underlying Sensory Causes of Behaviour
✅ The MOST Overlooked Sensory Tools & How to use
✅ Quickfire Solutions to Implement this Week

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