ASD Module 2: Structured Teaching Concepts (OnDemand)

Now that you can identify the characteristics and understand the challenges facing students with ASD, Lurie teaches how to create a classroom that builds a bridge between Autism and the typical world. In this course, she defines Structured Teaching and provide explanations and concrete examples of a four-part structured teaching pyramid that accounts for each student’s individual attention span, level of distraction, cognition, and individual interests by:

• Creating clear, interesting, manageable and individualized physical structures and organization

• Developing and using schedules that provide a calm, reassuring learning process while promoting independence

• Creating work systems that not only promote independent learning, but also reassure students that their learning is attainable.

• Developing and using visual structures that provide organization, detailed instruction, and visual clarity

• Creating clear, interesting, manageable and individualized physical structures and organization

• Developing and using schedules that provide a calm, reassuring learning process while promoting independence

Creating work systems that not only promote independent learning, but also reassure students that their learning is attainable.

• Developing and using visual structures that provide organization, detailed instruction, and visual clarity

Lurie demonstrates how to build on the ideas you learned in Part One relating to the importance of routine, predictability, detailed and concrete one-on-one instruction, and effective communication while decreasing anxiety and promoting confidence for your ASD students.