Adding Content to Your iPads

To Support Students WithAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

People with ASD

Communication Social SkillsBehaviour

People with ASD

All behaviour is communication

Apps for AAC

Supporting communication for people with little or no speechand complex communication needs

EVERYONE!

Effective use of iPad

SettingsRestrictions

Guided access

Visual tools

Benefits

RoutinesTransitions

ExpectationsClear steps

On taskConsistent language

There's an app for that!Visual Schedule PlannerChoiceworksStoryRobeCustom BoardsVisual routineWeek plannerKids calendar

Positive Behaviour Support

Functional Behaviour Analysis

Access or Avoid Attention

Access or Avoid an Item

Avoid a Task or Demand

Access or Avoid Sensory Input

There's an app for that!

First Then Visual ScheduleiEarnedThatToken BoardsTime timerSharing timerCalm counter

Social skills

Needs

Determine behaviour / skillPre teaching

Reinforcement and feedback Consistency

Review

Social Stories

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Teach a required social skill

Prepare someone for new events and experiences

Teach a positive behaviour

Teach a new skill

There’s an app for that!PictelloBook CreatorCreative Book BuilderPuppet PalsiMovieStrip DesignerPixnTell

Feelings

• Recognising and identifying feelings

• Expressing feelings

• Handling feelings of anger, anxiety, stress

Friendships

• Making friends

• Maintaining friendships

• Sharing, winning and losing

• Eye contact, body language, talking and listening.

Conversations

• Conversation rules

• Initiating, maintaining and ending conversations

• Topics

• Taking turns

Conflict Resolution

• Negotiation

• Problem solving

• Ways to resolve conflict

• Choices when faced with conflict

Classroom Behaviours

• Listening and attention, following directions

• Asking for help

• When you don't understand

• Interrupting

So What?What? What next?

What? What have I learnt?

So What?What? What next?

So What?

How will I use this in my

classroom/program?

12.30 -1.30

1.30 - 3.00

3.00 - 3.30

Lunch

iPads to support students with learning support needs in mainstream classrooms.

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