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Optimizing K-12 Classrooms for Autistic Learners: 6 Design Strategies that Benefit All Students Behavior & Sensory

Optimizing K-12 Classrooms for Autistic Learners: 6 Design Strategies that Benefit All Students

The link between classroom design and learning outcomes is clear. In the past two decades much has been learned about ways to structure classrooms to reduce behavioral challenges and improve learning outcomes for student…

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L.F. Stebbins

Aug 20, 2025 · 6 min read
Building Fall Transition Routines: Task Analysis Strategies for Behavior Therapists Behavior & Sensory

Building Fall Transition Routines: Task Analysis Strategies for Behavior Therapists

Why Fall Transitions Matter

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Angela Nelson

Jul 25, 2025 · 4 min read
Sensory Breaks for Your Child with Autism Behavior & Sensory

Sensory Breaks for Your Child with Autism

Strategies for Homeschooling Are there moments during your homeschooling day that you find your child with autism is seeking a sensory break to organize their body and mind? You’re not alone....

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Samantha Russell

Oct 21, 2023 · 5 min read
Nurturing Children with Autism: Managing Challenging Behaviors Behavior & Sensory

Nurturing Children with Autism: Managing Challenging Behaviors

Parenting is a complex journey filled with both joys and difficulties. When caring for a child with autism, parents often face the task of navigating through various behaviors and searching for...

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Nicole Knicely

Aug 12, 2023 · 4 min read
Unified Sports: Getting Autistic Children Back in the Game Behavior & Sensory

Unified Sports: Getting Autistic Children Back in the Game

How can unified sports help children with autism, parents, and communities, given the lingering developmental effects of the pandemic? Since 2020, adaptive and unified sports participation has...

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Amairani Asmad

Mar 10, 2023 · 6 min read
What Is MTSS and How Does It Help Struggling Students? Behavior & Sensory

What Is MTSS and How Does It Help Struggling Students?

MTSS stands for a multi-tiered system of supports. It is a data-driven, tiered framework, also referred to as a multi-tiered process or model of supports, that is designed to help schools identify...

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Ymkje Wideman-van der Laan

Nov 5, 2022 · 5 min read
Ask an Autistic*: What Do Meltdowns Feel Like? Behavior & Sensory

Ask an Autistic*: What Do Meltdowns Feel Like?

And How Can I Help? When I was young I would lose all control if I accidentally touched a seat belt strap, if I heard certain sounds, if someone entered my room, or if my mom put sweaters on...

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Tori Lehinger

Sep 5, 2022 · 5 min read
Safety Considerations for Caregivers of Children on the Autism Spectrum Behavior & Sensory

Safety Considerations for Caregivers of Children on the Autism Spectrum

Safety is an important topic when caring for autistic children. We covered how to keep autistic children out of harm’s way in Safety First! 8 Ways to Keep Children on the Autism Spectrum Safe...

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Ymkje Wideman-van der Laan

Jul 17, 2022 · 6 min read
Celebrating the Failures (and Successes) on the Autism Journey Behavior & Sensory

Celebrating the Failures (and Successes) on the Autism Journey

Setback. Failure. Mishap . However we choose to word them, we tend to view these concepts as negative. And even more so when it comes to the behavior of our autistic child. We may watch...

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Sara Bailey

Jun 25, 2022 · 6 min read
Autism and Aggression: A Four-Step Approach Behavior & Sensory

Autism and Aggression: A Four-Step Approach

How to deal with aggressive behavior remains one of the main and most urgent questions teachers and caregivers of autistic children ask, and aggression is also among the most common challenges...

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Ymkje Wideman-van der Laan

May 5, 2022 · 7 min read
Top Ten Outdoor Learning Strategies for Students With Autism Behavior & Sensory

Top Ten Outdoor Learning Strategies for Students With Autism

Outdoor learning can be a powerful and valuable aspect of the educational experience for all children–especially those with autism. Given adequate opportunities to explore, develop an...

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Kenna McEvoy

Apr 28, 2022 · 6 min read
How to Shape Homework Behavior with Autistic* Children Behavior & Sensory

How to Shape Homework Behavior with Autistic* Children

Let’s talk homework! If you are a parent to a school-aged child with autism, you may find it challenging to encourage your child to complete homework assignments. Children with autism will often...

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Marianne Coppola

Sep 6, 2021 · 5 min read
“Opportunities to Respond” in the Classroom for Students with Autism Behavior & Sensory

“Opportunities to Respond” in the Classroom for Students with Autism

Strategies for Active Engagement: In the Classroom and on Zoom For Autistic Children You’ve likely heard the phrase “Busy hands are happy hands,” but the same is true when it comes to our brains. One...

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Frankie Kietzman

Aug 14, 2021 · 5 min read
Autism Fidget Toys Are More Than Just Fun: Strong Research Supports their Use Behavior & Sensory

Autism Fidget Toys Are More Than Just Fun: Strong Research Supports their Use

In recent years the toy industry has exploded with options for toys focused on the fidgeting sensory need of people with Autism, ADHD and other disabilities to have their fine motor needs met....

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Erin Beach

Aug 14, 2021 · 4 min read
8 Tantrum Taming Skills for Helping Children with Autism Behavior & Sensory

8 Tantrum Taming Skills for Helping Children with Autism

As I enter the house, she’s screaming. A 3-year-old with a full-blown meltdown meets me at the door. Well, her mom meets me with the I’m-going-to-pull-my-hair-out look with her sweet, beautiful,...

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Ilana Danneman

Jun 14, 2021 · 7 min read
Using Sensory Solutions to Encourage Motor Skills in Children With Autism Behavior & Sensory

Using Sensory Solutions to Encourage Motor Skills in Children With Autism

Six sensory tools to use from an OT’s toolbox Children with autism often have over or under-responsive sensory systems that can impact the development of motor skills. The good news is we can use...

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Ilana Danneman

May 30, 2021 · 6 min read
The 7 Benefits of Using Sensory Bins for Children with Autism Behavior & Sensory

The 7 Benefits of Using Sensory Bins for Children with Autism

Has your family been introduced to sensory bins yet? They are all the rage at our house, and sometimes they keep us busy for hours! If you have not heard of sensory bins, or have not started using...

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Marianne Coppola

Apr 18, 2021 · 5 min read
Keeping Fit at Home: Exercise and Children with Autism Behavior & Sensory

Keeping Fit at Home: Exercise and Children with Autism

Benefits, Best Practices, Home Equipment Choices, and the Top Online Exercise Videos and Gaming Resources for your Child with Autism Exercise for children with autism can have both physical and...

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Chloe Fay

Dec 29, 2020 · 7 min read
Social Camouflaging in Girls and Women with Autism Behavior & Sensory

Social Camouflaging in Girls and Women with Autism

Social camouflaging means hiding behavior that may be less socially acceptable and putting extra effort into appearing neurotypical: It has negative consequence in terms of recognizing and diagnosing...

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Madeline Burroughs

Dec 20, 2020 · 5 min read
What is Stimming? Behavior & Sensory

What is Stimming?

Self-stimulatory behaviors with autism What is stimming? Stimming, which is short for “self-stimulatory behaviors,” is defined as when a person makes repetitive movements or sounds. Stimming, also...

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Chloe Fay

Aug 30, 2020 · 4 min read
Tips and Strategies for Helping Children with Autism Develop New Routines Behavior & Sensory

Tips and Strategies for Helping Children with Autism Develop New Routines

With difficulty making sense of their surroundings and feelings of anxiety, children with autism often develop routines and rituals to have some form of order and structure to their lives. Everyday...

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Grace Chen

Oct 1, 2017 · 3 min read
How to Help Young Children with Autism Avoid Behavior Problems Behavior & Sensory

How to Help Young Children with Autism Avoid Behavior Problems

Linda Hodgdon has been a long-time friend of Stages Learning and is author of the best-selling book, " Visual Strategies for Improving Communication ." We have invited her to impart some of her...

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Linda Hodgdon

Mar 17, 2017 · 3 min read
Leveraging Special Interests to Help Children with Autism:  An Autistic Person* Shares Her Experiences Behavior & Sensory

Leveraging Special Interests to Help Children with Autism:  An Autistic Person* Shares Her Experiences

Having a special interest in something is a major part of the repetitive behavior that comes with autism. In fact, researcher Tony Attwood (2003) found that special interests seem “to be a dominant...

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Catlaina Vrana

Jan 23, 2017 · 6 min read
Strategies for Responding to Rude Comments About Your Child’s Behavior Behavior & Sensory

Strategies for Responding to Rude Comments About Your Child’s Behavior

* Print out our Free Card to give to a stranger when your child is having a difficult time in public. The “Five W’s”: Choosing when to be an ambassador for autism and when to walk away...

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Marina Ebert

Sep 26, 2016 · 7 min read

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