School training module one, autism defined and overview
School training module eight, sensory in the classroom
1. The Basics of Autism
Spectrum Disorders
Training Series
Regional Autism Advisory Council of
Southwest Ohio (RAAC-SWO)
RAAC Training Committee 2011
2. Training Series Modules
Module One: Autism Defined, Autism Prevalence
and Primary Characteristics
Module Two: Physical Characteristics of Autism
Module Three: Cognition and Learning in Autism
Module Four: Getting the Student Ready to Learn
Module Five: Structuring the Classroom
Environment
Module Six: Using Reinforcement in the Classroom
3. Training Series Modules
Module Seven: Autism and Sensory Differences
Module Eight: Sensory in the Classroom
Module Nine: Communication and Autism
Module Ten: Communication in the Classroom
Module Eleven: Behavior Challenges and Autism
Module Twelve: Understanding Behavior in
Students with Autism
4. Training Series Modules
Module Thirteen: Social Skills in the School
Environment
Module Fourteen: Functional Behavior Assessment
Module Fifteen: Working Together as a Team
Module Sixteen: Autism and Leisure Skills to
Teach
Module Seventeen: Special Issues of Adolescence
Module Eighteen: Safety and Autism
Module Nineteen: Special Issues: High School,
Transition, and Job Readiness
5. Training Series Modules
Module Twenty: Asperger Syndrome: Managing and
Organizing the Environment
Module Twenty-One: Asperger Syndrome:
Addressing Social Skills
6. Addressing Sensory Needs in
the Classroom Environment
Occupational Therapist on the team will create an
individualized “sensory diet” for each student that
needs one.
Sensory diet is made up of activities that will help the
student be ready to learn during the school day.
Activities in the sensory diet are things that should
occur everyday and should be implemented through
out the school day.
Sensory diet is a proactive approach, which means it
helps to prevent problem behavior related to sensory
needs and ensures the student’s body is ready to learn.
7. Big Idea
Sensory activities can and should
occur in all environments of the
school including the classroom,
hallway, lunch room, specials,
playground, and bus.
8. Sensory Diet Activities
There are four types of activities that may be a part of a student’s
sensory diet.
1. Core Muscle Strength
Helps improve posture, or how a student sits at their desk or table
in the classroom environment.
2. Crossing Midline (when a person is asked to take their right hand and
reach across to their left side to do something, or vise versa, asked to
take their left hand and reach across to their right side to do
something)
Helps with reading, writing, and math concepts.
3. Heavy Work
Helps a student calm down and re-focus.
4. Calming
Helps a student transition to the next activity.
11. Heavy Work Activities
Wall pushes
Chair push-ups
Yoga
Exercise bands
Jumping- on floor, mini-tramp
Pushing/pulling- give them a job “delivering”
something
