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Environmental Factors: Crafting Supportive Learning Spaces Life Skills & Transitions

Environmental Factors: Crafting Supportive Learning Spaces

This article is the fourth in our series on Key Root Causes of Disruptive Classroom Behaviors and How to Help

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Stages Learning

Sep 25, 2024 · 4 min read
How to Help Your Autistic* Child Cope With Their Parents’ Divorce Life Skills & Transitions

How to Help Your Autistic* Child Cope With Their Parents’ Divorce

What can divorcing parents do to support their autistic child or teenager through these common challenge areas? Parental divorce is not necessarily any more common in families with a child...

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Amairani Asmad

Dec 11, 2022 · 7 min read
What Works? Evidence-Based Transition Services Life Skills & Transitions

What Works? Evidence-Based Transition Services

As students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) transition from adolescence to adulthood, it is important that the transition services they access are evidence-based. Researchers have carefully...

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Abby Peskin

Nov 12, 2022 · 5 min read
Job Coaching, Supported and Integrated Employment for Students with Autism Life Skills & Transitions

Job Coaching, Supported and Integrated Employment for Students with Autism

What Does the Law Require? Students with autism have the opportunity to continue their education through age 21. This is guaranteed by federal law. Schools and Vocational Rehabilitation (VR)...

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Katie Donnelly Iamurri

Nov 5, 2022 · 6 min read
From Frightful to Festive: One Mother’s Experience with Adult Care Placement Options for Her Autistic Son Life Skills & Transitions

From Frightful to Festive: One Mother’s Experience with Adult Care Placement Options for Her Autistic Son

When the time comes to transition your autistic child into the best adult care program, I know first hand as a caregiver of “Jim” that placement concerns can have “haunting” effects on your overall...

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Heidi Ellis

Oct 22, 2022 · 4 min read
How to Create Effective Transition Service IEPs for Students with Autism Life Skills & Transitions

How to Create Effective Transition Service IEPs for Students with Autism

A Guide for Schools on the IDEA and Rehabilitation Act Requirements Under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), children with autism spectrum disorders are eligible to receive an...

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Abby Peskin

Sep 11, 2022 · 5 min read
A Deeper Dive: What Post-Secondary Employment and Services are Available for Students With Autism? Life Skills & Transitions

A Deeper Dive: What Post-Secondary Employment and Services are Available for Students With Autism?

A growing number of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are attending college after they graduate from high school. However, unfortunately, a high number of these students also leave...

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Abby Peskin

Sep 5, 2022 · 5 min read
Overview of Transition Services: What Resources and Supports are Available for Students With Autism? Life Skills & Transitions

Overview of Transition Services: What Resources and Supports are Available for Students With Autism?

What are transition services? The societal transition from childhood to adulthood is full of stressful events for most children, including deciding between college and work, picking a college...

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Abby Peskin

Aug 21, 2022 · 5 min read
Autism in the Workplace: Advice From the Trenches Life Skills & Transitions

Autism in the Workplace: Advice From the Trenches

Autism in the workplace can have its share of rewards and pitfalls. As with anyone else, one on the spectrum has a lot to navigate when trying to find the right job fit. For some, the learning...

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Grady Bolding

Aug 20, 2022 · 6 min read
Moving to a New House With a Child With Autism Life Skills & Transitions

Moving to a New House With a Child With Autism

12 Tips for Supporting Autistic Children During a Move While times of transition can be hard for all of us, autistic children may struggle more than neurotypical children due to difficulty...

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Kenna McEvoy

Jul 17, 2022 · 7 min read
Benefits of Online College for Students With Autism Life Skills & Transitions

Benefits of Online College for Students With Autism

8 Reasons to Consider Distance Learning a nd 8 Great College Choices for Those on the Spectrum Online college can provide many unique benefits for students on the autism spectrum due to the...

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Kenna McEvoy

May 29, 2022 · 6 min read
How to Teach Students With Autism Healthy Habits, Life Skills, and Self-Care Life Skills & Transitions

How to Teach Students With Autism Healthy Habits, Life Skills, and Self-Care

While establishing goals for personal hygiene, healthy habits, and effective self-care skills is important for everyone, individuals on the autism spectrum may need additional support when...

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Kenna McEvoy

May 29, 2022 · 6 min read
Brilliant Amazon Show "As We See It" Features Autistic Cast and Crew Life Skills & Transitions

Brilliant Amazon Show "As We See It" Features Autistic Cast and Crew

Photo credit: Amazon On Friday, January 21, 2022, Amazon Prime Video premiered a new show called “As We See It” starring three autistic cast members. The show follows three roommates in their early...

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Sara DeFronzo

Jan 20, 2022 · 4 min read
Using Task Analysis to Develop Independent Living Skills Life Skills & Transitions

Using Task Analysis to Develop Independent Living Skills

Life is filled with routines. When you’re a student, you have years of repetition in a school setting to learn where to go when you arrive, how to get your lunch, transition in the hallways,...

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Frankie Kietzman

Dec 31, 2021 · 5 min read
3 Visual Recipes for the Aspiring Chef: Visual Recipes Are a Great Way to Teach Cooking and Baking to Your Autistic Child 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...

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Sara DeFronzo

Dec 16, 2021 · 3 min read
Fun in the Kitchen! Teaching Developmentally Appropriate Cooking Processes to Autistic Learners Life Skills & Transitions

Fun in the Kitchen! Teaching Developmentally Appropriate Cooking Processes to Autistic Learners

Using Task Analyses and Imitation Strategies Preparing and gathering for a meal is a special social occasion for family and friends from all walks of life. Structured steps and visual aids may...

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Sheila Hartley

Nov 19, 2021 · 4 min read
Using Task Analysis for Arrival and Dismissal Routines Life Skills & Transitions

Using Task Analysis for Arrival and Dismissal Routines

Getting ready to go somewhere and transitioning once you arrive just might be the hardest part of the day for your autistic child or student, and in turn, for you. Fortunately, tools like task...

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Frankie Kietzman

Oct 24, 2021 · 5 min read
Is College Right for my Child with Autism? Life Skills & Transitions

Is College Right for my Child with Autism?

How can a family best take advantage of available resources, and avoid obstacles, in order to plot a successful post-high-school experience for an autistic child? As Steven Covey wrote in The...

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Signe M. Kastberg

Mar 7, 2021 · 6 min read
From Sleeping in to Prepping for School: Strategies for Avoiding Wake-up Wars Life Skills & Transitions

From Sleeping in to Prepping for School: Strategies for Avoiding Wake-up Wars

One mother’s tried and true recommendations for helping your child with autism get ready for an early wake up time once school starts. Are you dreading your "au-some" child's first week back to...

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Heidi Ellis

Aug 30, 2020 · 5 min read
Teaching Children with Autism to Follow Simple Directions Life Skills & Transitions

Teaching Children with Autism to Follow Simple Directions

Teaching children with Autism 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,...

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Chloe Fay

Apr 19, 2020 · 3 min read
Follow Your Passion: 5 Steps to Finding the Best Career Match for a Young Adult with Autism Life Skills & Transitions

Follow Your Passion: 5 Steps to Finding the Best Career Match for a Young Adult with Autism

1. Follow Your Passion I love flying! All my life I have been interested in anything aviation related: airports, travel, planes. All of us have things we are passionate about, but for a young...

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L.F. Stebbins

Apr 2, 2020 · 6 min read
Benefits and Strategies for Teaching Art to Children with Autism: Help for Art Challenged Adults Why Art? Life Skills & Transitions

Benefits and Strategies for Teaching Art to Children with Autism: Help for Art Challenged Adults Why Art?

Art therapy provides many benefits for children with autism because it promotes emotional and mental growth as well as independence and collaboration skills. As an outlet for self-expression,...

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Madeline Burroughs

Mar 25, 2020 · 4 min read
Top Work Places Supporting Adults with Autism Life Skills & Transitions

Top Work Places Supporting Adults with Autism

Individuals with autism too often have been underrepresented and discriminated against in employment. A 2017 report from Drexel University found that only 14 percent of adults with autism held paid...

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Emma Shanahan

Oct 23, 2018 · 7 min read
Young Adulthood on the Spectrum: An Interview with a Friend Life Skills & Transitions

Young Adulthood on the Spectrum: An Interview with a Friend

“A good way to picture the autism spectrum isn’t from low to high like a grading scale, but like the spectrum of light in a rainbow. Where different people fall on the spectrum allows them to...

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Emma Shanahan

Oct 22, 2018 · 11 min read

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