After an interesting 4th hour yesterday, I thought I would attempt my first post to see if there is any helpful hints out there.
I have a class this year where I have 5 high functioning autistic kids, alongside other students that need that need some extra tender, loving care.
I have had a couple of incidences now, where my autistic students start to get a little uneasy and then it can escalate into screaming or crying, etc. Yes, I have wonderful paras that are in here to help, but my concern turns into the fact that during lessons my students focus their attention on whats going on and we slowly start to lose that important time together. Then I spend the time trying to re-gain their attention and figure out where we left off.
I guess I just wonder if there are any helpful strategies or techniques that people have used in the past that would help not only me to learn how to work through whats going on, but also keeping my students engaged at the same time??
I do not quite understand but definitely love to attempt to offer strategies; your concern is about the "other" students paying attention to an Autism incident when they are supposed to be engaged in your lesson? What level of students do you teach?
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