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What do you do when a three-year-old with autism falls on the floor kicking and screaming?

How do you communicate with a child who looks away and flaps his hands?

Who can help if you suspect a child in your class has autism?

Preschool can be overwhelming for a child with autism. Autism affects how a child communicates, behaves, and relates to others. Teachers need to know what they can do to help children with autism reach their full potential.

Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder is a straightforward, easy-to-understand guide to working with children who have autism. It explains the major characteristics associated with autism and helps teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world. Each chapter offers specific strategies for teachers to use, including setting up a proactive preschool environment, helping children learn life skills, managing behavior, helping children with autism communicate, encouraging children with autism to play, helping them to get along with others, and working with families. Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder helps teachers connect with all children in meaningful ways, allowing children with autism to learn and grow.

Chapters Include:

Putting All the Pieces Together: Understanding This Puzzle Called AutismFrom Hand-Flapping to Obsession with Routines: The Way Children With Autism Relate to Their WorldPlanning for Success: Setting Up a Proactive Preschool Environment Learning Life SkillsMisbehavior or Missed Communication: Managing the Behaviors of Children With AutismSigns, Symbols, and Language: Helping a Child CommunicateInside Their Own World: Encouraging Children With Autism to PlayBuilding Social Skills: Getting Along With OthersLights! Camera! Action! Sensory Integration and AutismWe're All in This Together: Teaming Up With Families

Easy-to-implement strategies for teaching infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs. Placing children with special needs in environments that include typically developing peers has become commonplace as continuing research confirms that all children benefit and learn from each other as well as from their teachers.Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs is written for all teachers and directors who work with infants, toddlers, and twos, including special educators and educators working with typically developing children. This book specifically addresses the needs of children with developmental delays, as well as children at risk for developing special needs. Each chapter includes information about how infants, toddlers, and twos learn. The strategies and adaptations in each chapter are easy to use and apply to all children. Examples are presented for managing the physical environment and for teaching skills that will enhance the overall development of infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs.

Best-selling, award-winning authors Pam Schiller and Clarissa Willis have teamed up to create this collection of 100 literacy lessons, designed to introduce children ages 3-6 to a variety of literacy concepts and build important literacy skills. Each of these simple, fun lessons offers adaptations for children with special needs, including:

Visual impairmentsHearing impairmentsCognitive challengesMotor delaysSpeech/language delaysEmotional/behavior issues

The first page of each two-page lesson features a learning objective, a literacy activity, extension activities, a daily reflection, and vocabulary. The second page has adaptations specific to the literacy lesson for children with special needs.

A great grab-and-use book for preschool teachers!

"Invites teachers to apply appropriate strategies in classroom environments for young children with special needs, setting the stage for future school success!"—Toby Karten, Author, Inclusion Strategies That Work!"This book helps teachers better understand specific disabilities and intentional support mechanisms that encourage ALL children to learn and grow. It is a resource that I will use for years to come!"—Kim Hughes, Therapeutic Preschool TeacherProject Enlightenment, Wake County Public Schools, NCResearch-based techniques to help all children thrive in early childhood settings!More and more frequently, early childhood educators teach children with special needs, yet few have the necessary background knowledge and experiences to meet the challenge of teaching in an inclusive classroom.Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Young Children gives teachers targeted information, strategies, and activities to address the learning needs of all children, including those at risk. The author provides in-depth information on a variety of disabilities, including autism, vision and hearing loss, communication delays, and sensory integration disorders. Each chapter offers a glossary of terms, a list of suggested resources, and a brief summary of relevant research. Aligned with NAEYC and DEC standards, this engaging and comprehensive resource helps readers:Create appropriate inclusive environments and establish daily schedulesBuild relationships among peers with and without disabilities Work productively with families, special education teachers, and paraprofessionalsUnderstand Individualized Education Programs and Response to InterventionThis handbook gives preschool and kindergarten teachers the tools to support all young learners by building relationships and providing positive classroom experiences.

"Invites teachers to apply appropriate strategies in classroom environments for young children with special needs, setting the stage for future school success!"—Toby Karten, Author, Inclusion Strategies That Work!"This book helps teachers better understand specific disabilities and intentional support mechanisms that encourage ALL children to learn and grow. It is a resource that I will use for years to come!"—Kim Hughes, Therapeutic Preschool TeacherProject Enlightenment, Wake County Public Schools, NCResearch-based techniques to help all children thrive in early childhood settings!More and more frequently, early childhood educators teach children with special needs, yet few have the necessary background knowledge and experiences to meet the challenge of teaching in an inclusive classroom.Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Young Children gives teachers targeted information, strategies, and activities to address the learning needs of all children, including those at risk. The author provides in-depth information on a variety of disabilities, including autism, vision and hearing loss, communication delays, and sensory integration disorders. Each chapter offers a glossary of terms, a list of suggested resources, and a brief summary of relevant research. Aligned with NAEYC and DEC standards, this engaging and comprehensive resource helps readers:Create appropriate inclusive environments and establish daily schedulesBuild relationships among peers with and without disabilities Work productively with families, special education teachers, and paraprofessionalsUnderstand Individualized Education Programs and Response to InterventionThis handbook gives preschool and kindergarten teachers the tools to support all young learners by building relationships and providing positive classroom experiences.