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This document provides great comprehension questions for parents to ask during reading time with their child. As this handout explains to parents, "These questions will help children make pictures in their minds of the story/text and will give them the opportunity to make a personal connection to that story/text. As children become skilled in answering these questions and making personal connections, reading and writing and speaking their thoughts will become important to them. And what fun f

This parent questionnaire guides parents to prepare for their child's IEP meeting. A list of questions stimulates reflection and goal-oriented thinking in order to promote parent involvement and assist parents through the IEP process.

As an instructional autism special education teacher, I facilitate a parent support group at my school for parents raising children with special needs. The group is designed to support and encourage parents and caregivers through collaboration, education, and resources. We cover many different topics, one of which is helping parents to understand the complex Individualized Education Plan (IEP) process. This power point presentation provides information and resources as it engages parents in le

As an instructional autism special education teacher, I facilitate a parent support group at my school for parents raising children with special needs. The group is designed to support and encourage parents and caregivers through collaboration, education, and resources. We cover many different topics, one of which is helping parents to understand sensory integration differences in children with autism. This power point presentation provides information and resources as it actively engages paren

This product is a great way to organize and remember your students' IEP goals. The first page is a table that allows the teacher to indicate each student's goal area, IEP goal, and time in which each goal will be targeted. The second page provides an "at-a-glance" review of each student's IEP objectives and section to record data. These documents help me to organize, record, and maintain critical IEP data and progress monitoring.

As an instructional autism special education teacher, I facilitate a parent support group at my school for parents raising children with special needs. The group is designed to support and encourage parents and caregivers through collaboration, education, and resources. We cover many different topics, one of which is behavior. This power point presentation provides information and resources as it engages parents in learning about behavior and autism. The presentation is parent- friendly and easy

As an instructional autism special education teacher, I facilitate a parent support group at my school for parents raising children with special needs. The group is designed to support and encourage parents and caregivers through collaboration, education, and resources. We cover many different topics, one of which is communication. This power point presentation provides information and resources as it engages parents in learning about ways to increase language and communication at home through

This collaboration log is specifically useful for special education teachers. I created this as an easy-to-use system to record my collaboration notes for committee, staff, teacher, and grade-level meetings as well as communication with parents and service providers. I print and keep blank pages of this document in a binder to organize my collaboration. Each page contains a section to indicate the person who you communicated with, the date of collaboration, method of communication (meeting, phon

As an early childhood special education teacher, I believe it is critical to partner with parents in order to maximize each child's learning and development. As I begin my planning for the new school year, I use this Parental Description Form to gain valuable information and insights on each student. By asking parents to complete and return this form (either at our Open House or within the first week of school), I am able to make more informed decisions about planning, instruction, grouping, e

Written in short simple segments, this social story teaches classroom expectations in a clear and concise manner with the assistance of visuals. The story uses positive language to teach target behaviors of using quiet hands, quiet voice, listening, being a good friend, etc. This document is editable so you can add or change rules as works best for your classroom. Hope it helps!

This activity is meant to accompany the book Finding the Birthday Cake by Elizabeth Wagele, which discusses beginning career exploration topics with objectives such as: -Acquiring skills to investigate world of work in relation to knowledge of self -Employing strategies to achieve future success and satisfaction -Understanding relationship between personal qualities, education, and the world of work -Increasing awareness of different occupations This activity guides students to review

As an early childhood instructional autism teacher, I am constantly looking for ways to help parents reinforce what their child is learning at school. Many of my students have an IEP math goal to match number and quantity. This documents provides an easy-to-read, easy-to-implement hands-on method of how parents can work on this goal with their child at home using concrete materials. Step-by- step directions are clear and manageable for the parent; the activity is adaptable for use with a variety

This list includes a variety of excellent books about autism - support and resources for parents, teaching and parenting strategies, strengths of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and hints on how to help children with Autism develop new skills. I highly recommend these books to my student's parents! It's a good handout resource for parents or anyone interested in learning more about autism. This document is editable so you can add or delete books as you need.