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Using Visual Supports for Autistic Children
This resource was created as a supplement for the Language Builder: ARIS® Academic Readiness Intervention System's complete early autism curriculum, Lesson #79 Following a Schedule. Download free images of classroom visual schedules to use in your classroom and learn more about
Kenna McEvoy
Nov 5, 2022 · 7 min read
Emotions & Social Skills Helping Your Autistic* Child Develop Emotional Intelligence
Children with autism are often lacking in the area of emotional intelligence. The good news is that scientists now better understand the biological reasons behind why autistic individuals face challenges in this area. By understanding the science, and understanding that emotiona
Katie Vena
Jul 30, 2022 · 7 min read
Autism Resources How to Use Video Modeling and Video Self-Modeling to Help Your Autistic Child
Have you ever wondered how we learn new skills–or how most children seem to pick up on the natural progression of getting a haircut, going to the dentist, or brushing their teeth? While many children grasp the typical flow of these activities and automatically learn from watchin
Kenna McEvoy
Jul 2, 2022 · 6 min read
Using Scripted Stories to Teach Children With Autism
Research-Based Practices for Using Scripted Stories for Learning with 6 Sample Stories
Chloe Fay
Feb 27, 2022 · 10 min read
Life Skills & Transitions 3 Visual Recipes for the Aspiring Chef: Visual Recipes Are a Great Way to Teach Cooking and Baking to Your Autistic Child
For autistic children, cooking and baking can be a creative and joyous pastime. Many children are eager to help their parents prepare meals, but some may not be ready to prepare complex recipes using the oven or stovetop. The recipes provided below are intended for autistic chil
Sara DeFronzo
Dec 16, 2021 · 3 min read
The ARIS Lessons: An Insider Look
A Special Ed Teacher and New Stages Learning Staffer Takes a Peek Under the Hood of Our New ARIS Early Autism Curriculum I’m not a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), but I know “just enough to be dangerous.”
Frankie Kietzman, Ed.S.
Dec 5, 2021 · 5 min read
ARIS & Curriculum 10 Best Books to Teach Autistic Students How to Use Money
This resource was created as a supplement for the Language Builder: ARIS® Academic Readiness Intervention System complete early autism curriculum, Lesson #198, Matching Money, Lesson #199, Matching Individual Currency to Numeric Values, Lesson #200, Receptive Money, Lesson #201,
Angela Pickering
Nov 7, 2021 · 5 min read
ARIS & Curriculum The 20 Best Addition Books for Autistic Students Using Counter Objects
This resource was created as a supplement for the Language Builder: ARIS® Academic Readiness Intervention System complete early autism curriculum, Lesson #182, Adding Using Counter Objects. Download a free copy of the lesson and learn more about ARIS here . Addition can be a com
Tatiana Tortora
Oct 31, 2021 · 6 min read
ARIS & Curriculum The 20 Best Books to Teach Subtraction to Autistic Children Using Counter Objects
This resource was created as a supplement for the Language Builder: ARIS® Academic Readiness Intervention System complete early autism curriculum, Lesson #183, Subtracting Using Counter Objects. Download a free copy of the lesson and learn more about ARIS here . Subtraction is a
Tatiana Tortora
Oct 29, 2021 · 6 min read
Best Apps for Autistic Children
Certain apps are targeted to meet the needs and support autistic individuals. Children in this generation have grown up with iPads and tablets. They’re able to navigate the devices and often have favorite apps. Many families and schools will use apps to supplement learning. Chil
Tatiana Tortora
Oct 17, 2021 · 8 min read
10 Spectacular Virtual Field Trips for Autistic Students
Field trips create enriching experiences that support instruction. Students habitually love field trips, and they get excited about hands-on learning. Teachers love field trips because they engage students in learning, allow for real-life connections, support cultural education,
Tatiana Tortora
Oct 3, 2021 · 6 min read
Classroom Strategies Teaching Multi-Step Skills Through Task Analysis for Autistic Students
Life is filled with constant multi-step directions and processes. That’s why a common elementary project is to have students write exact directions to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Their peers are then told to only do exactly what the directions say. As you might imag
Frankie Kietzman, Ed.S.
Oct 3, 2021 · 6 min read
How To Use Shaping to Teach Autistic Children New Behaviors at Home
As children become older and begin to develop new skills, it can be overwhelming for caregivers and parents to teach more complex behaviors, such as developing new language, making requests, cleaning their room, or completing homework. When caring for a child diagnosed as autist
Marianne Coppola
Jul 18, 2021 · 5 min read
Opening My ARIS Autism Curriculum Kit for the First time
Christmas came early this year!
Frankie Kietzman, Ed.S.
Jul 1, 2021 · 5 min read
Strategies for Teaching Autistic Children Letters
Autistic children can experience delays and challenges in learning letters, letter recognition, and writing letters. Writing and reading are powerful communication skills. Before your child begins to learn to read or write, they must first learn to recognize and identify letters
Chloe Fay
Apr 9, 2021 · 6 min read
10 Fun Activities Using Patterns to Teach Early Math Skills for Autistic Children
Red, Blue, Red, Blue: Using Patterns to Teach Early Math Skills Teaching autistic children various patterns is a key foundational skill that will support their later math development. The following activities utilize Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) strategies to provide an eng
Madeline Burroughs
Mar 14, 2021 · 6 min read
ARIS & Curriculum Best Games, Stories, Rhymes and Songs to Support Early Math Skills for Autistic Students
This resource was created as a supplement for the ARIS® Academic Readiness Intervention System (ARIS) complete early autism curriculum, Lesson #168, Recited Counting 1-10, Lesson #173, Receptive Numbers 1-10, Lesson #174, Expressive Numbers 1-10, Lesson #175, Receptive Numbers 1
Madeline Burroughs
Dec 20, 2020 · 14 min read
About Autism Arts and Crafts for Autism Awareness
Arts and crafts projects can increase autism awareness and benefit your autistic child at the same time! Why do we need to increase autism awareness?
Chloe Fay
Dec 20, 2020 · 6 min read
Classroom Strategies Tell Me a Story: How to Teach Narrative and Comprehension Strategies to Autistic Children
In K-12 education, no one disputes that developing reading skills is fundamental. Research suggests that early literacy instruction for students with and without disabilities is essential for future literacy development. 3 Teachers across the world are constantly utilizing vario
Madeline Burroughs
Jun 28, 2020 · 5 min read
ARIS & Curriculum Teacher Tips: Using Expressive Labeling to Teach Autistic Children Language Skills
This resource was created as a supplement for the ARIS® Academic Readiness Intervention System Language Builder complete early autism curriculum, Lesson #33, Expressive Labeling in Books. Download a free copy of the lesson and learn more about the ARIS curriculum . For autistic
Madeline Burroughs
May 12, 2020 · 6 min read
ARIS & Curriculum Teacher Tips: Using Receptive Labeling to Teach Autistic Children Language Skills
This resource was created as a supplement for the ARIS® Academic Readiness Intervention System Language Bui lder complete early autism curriculum, Lesson #23, Receptive Learning in Books. Download a free copy of the lesson and learn more about the ARIS curriculum. Beginning at a
Madeline Burroughs
May 4, 2020 · 5 min read
Language & Communication Teaching Parts of Speech to Autistic Children: Prepositions, Opposites, Pronouns and Verb Tense
Autistic children frequently have delayed language development. For autistic children who have developed language, understanding or using parts of speech correctly may be difficult. While many children develop language skills incidentally, parts of speech such as prepositions, o
Chloe Fay
May 3, 2020 · 8 min read
Emotions & Social Skills 4 Activities and 3 Tips to Help Support Emotional Awareness for Your Autistic Child
Recognizing and understanding emotions is a key part of development. Emotional awareness allows individuals to identify what they are feeling and why. This is a critical step towards building emotional intelligence, a key life skill. Being able to identify our emotions and under
Madeline Burroughs
Apr 20, 2020 · 5 min read
Life Skills & Transitions Teaching Autistic Children to Follow Simple Directions
Teaching autistic children to follow simple directions is an important skill for them to learn. The ability to follow simple directions allows opportunities for your child to gain independence, regulation skills, communication skills, productivity in daily routine tasks, and pra
Chloe Fay
Apr 19, 2020 · 4 min read
ABA & Therapy A New Curriculum for All Children with Autism
The new Language Builder: ARIS (Academic Readiness Intervention System) was developed to provide a curriculum to any teacher or parent interested in helping a child with autism develop to their full potential. ARIS was designed so that even school districts that cannot afford to
Leslie Stebbins, M.Ed. M.L.I.S.
Apr 2, 2020 · 4 min read
A New Curriculum for Autism: ARIS
Teachers, parents and Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) have been asking for an “all in one” autism education curriculum for years. Language Builder: ARIS (Academic Readiness Intervention System) is now available to support teachers and parents helping children with autism lea
Leslie Stebbins, M.Ed. M.L.I.S.
Mar 22, 2020 · 3 min read
ARIS & Curriculum A New Homeschool Curriculum for Autistic Children: ARIS
Homeschooling is not always easy, but it can provide many benefits for children with autism. In the first two years of the pandemic, researchers found that home environments were frequently advantageous for autistic children because they reduced the amount of social and sensory
Arianna Riccio
Mar 22, 2020 · 6 min read
ABA & Therapy How ARIS Supports Social Emotional Learning and Whole Child Development for Students with Autism
Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and the whole child approach have huge implications for child development and successful learning for all children of all ages, but SEL and whole child are especially critical for teaching children with autism. SEL is defined by the Collaborative
Madeline Burroughs
Dec 8, 2019 · 4 min read
The “Why” and the “What” Behind Language Builder: Academic Readiness Intervention System (ARIS)
ARIS was created with access and implementation in mind: intended to make the principles of ABA easily accessible and easy to implement for educators working with children with autism who may not have formal ABA training. Recent research has highlighted the lack of evidence-base
Madeline Burroughs
Oct 20, 2019 · 4 min read
ARIS & Curriculum Mastering Matching 3D - 2D Lesson Plan
Lesson Overview In this lesson, the child will learn how to match 3D objects to 2D picture cards of the same object. Download Lesson Plan : Skills Practiced 3D - 2D Matching Receptive Language Materials Language Builder 3D - 2D Animal Matching Kit People This lesson is best suit
Sophia Chung
Mar 3, 2018 · 2 min read
ARIS & Curriculum The Research Effectiveness of the Language Builder® Academic Readiness Intervention System (ARIS)
The Academic Readiness Intervention System (ARISTM) is a new comprehensive early autism education curriculum based on the Language Builder® Picture Cards created over twenty years ago by STAGES® Learning and widely used in classrooms and therapeutic settings.
John Richards, Ph.D., Leslie Stebbins, M.Ed., MLIS and Angela Nelson, J.D.; M.Ed.
May 5, 2017 · 23 min read
ABA & Therapy New Tools to Help Your Child Sleep
Research [i] confirms what many parents of children with autism already know: children with autism have a higher incidence of sleep challenges, and the more severe the autism symptoms the more severe the sleep challenges. Research, [ii] as well as common sense, also tells us tha
Leslie Stebbins, M.Ed. M.L.I.S.
Nov 18, 2015 · 6 min read
ARIS & Curriculum Flash Cards vs. iPad Apps: Which is Best?
All over the news, we see stories about kids with autism and their iPads. Rookie reporters tout the devices as The Next Big Thing, even going so far as to refer to them as cures. I’m sure we would all agree that the touch screen tablets are amazing, for little and big kids alike
Hayley Vininsky, M.S., BCBA
Aug 30, 2014 · 2 min read
Language & Communication Part 4 of 4: Labeling and Requesting
Additional Activities to Develop Sentence Skills Labeling and Requesting are the most basic of all full sentence activities, and provide a basis for your student to understand that communication requires more than single word utterances. The following list of activities offers j
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 29, 2014 · 5 min read
Language & Communication Part 1 of 4: Encouraging Emerging Language and Receptive Vocabulary
Emerging Language and Building Vocabulary Language development varies from child to child, and there are wide ranges of expected “normal” language development in young children. If you have specific concerns about the pace of your child’s language development, you should definit
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 18, 2014 · 4 min read
ARIS & Curriculum Part 3 of 4: From Basic Vocabulary to Building Sentences
The most popular use of the Language Builder Picture Card Series is to build vocabulary. The realistic and current photos help students to learn the name of various nouns, occupations, and emotions. In the beginning, this task can be very repetitive and basic, focusing only on l
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 18, 2014 · 3 min read
Life Skills & Transitions How to Modify Chores for your Child with Autism
When you have a child with autism or other special needs, chores are often overlooked or parents don’t consider it a possibility for their child. Just as modifications are needed in the classroom, small modification or supports can be developed to not only make chores a possibil
Lindsey Dunn, Ed.M.
Apr 18, 2014 · 4 min read
Classroom Strategies Importance of Categorization
Learning to categorize items is a basic task for young children. Close your eyes for a moment and picture a typical pre-school classroom: children are sorting little plastic bears, red bears in one tub, blue in another, and green in a third; another group of children arranges pi
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 17, 2014 · 2 min read
Classroom Strategies Community Helpers and Occupation Flash Cards for Autism
There are so many people our children need to interact with on a weekly basis – teachers, doctors, bus drivers, dentists, janitors, crossing guards, store clerks, mail carriers…. Meeting new people can be difficult for any child, but children with autism often have a particularl
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 16, 2014 · 2 min read
ARIS & Curriculum Basic Matching Activities
Why Matching Activities for Children with Autism? Note: These activities are excerpted from the Language Builder® ARIS Full Autism Curriculum developed by Stages Learning Materials. What does matching teach a child? How can this be a step toward developing language? Matching ski
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 15, 2014 · 7 min read
ARIS & Curriculum Using Picture Flashcards for Language Development for Autistic* Children
Flashcards with real photo images are an essential tool for children with autism to aid them in learning language skills. A common challenge for children and adults with autism is their ability to communicate. Therapists recommend Picture Flash Cards as one of the best tools to
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 15, 2014 · 3 min read
Classroom Strategies Why Real Photo Games in Early Childhood Education?
A growing trend in Early Childhood Education is the focus on using materials with real photo images rather than illustrations. Teaching ideologies such as Montessori have long understood the importance of focusing on fact rather than fiction in the materials used for teaching yo
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 14, 2014 · 2 min read
Classroom Strategies Classroom Bingo
Classroom Bingo is a fun teaching tool for use at home or in the classroom. With Stages’ Picture Recognition Bingo kids won’t even know that they’re learning as they listen intently to match the beautiful photographs on their player’s card with the corresponding words spoken by
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 14, 2014 · 3 min read
Language & Communication Why Real Photos? What about Cartoons?
Iconicity refers to the degree of resemblance between a picture and the object that it depicts. A cartoon image, for example, would have a low degree of iconicity, while a photograph would have a higher degree of iconicity.
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 14, 2014 · 1 min read
Language & Communication Not Just Why... How? - Get them Engaged!
Just using realistic pictures to interact with and teach children is not enough. The key is in the specific ways that you use the pictures to build vocabulary, communication, literacy and critical thinking skills. The following chapters will introduce many techniques and teachin
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 12, 2014 · 1 min read
Classroom Strategies Background on Teaching Children with Autism Language Using Pictures
When very young children first begin to learn language skills, they learn new words by hearing the spoken word tied to the actual object (Richards & Goldfarb, 1986). For example, if parents repeat the word car every time they take their child to the car, the child will quickly l
Angela Nelson, J.D., Ed.M.
Apr 10, 2014 · 2 min read
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