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							<p>Join the<strong> free live online PECS workshop</strong> on <strong>Thursday the 30th March.</strong></p><p>Information on how to save your <strong>free spot</strong> over on the pinned post in my Facebook group <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/autismandinclusiveteaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Autism and Inclusive Teaching. </a></strong></p><p></p><p></p>						</div>
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Last Updated on March 27, 2023 by Steph Reed Transcription coming soon… Join the free live online PECS workshop on Thursday the 30th March. Information on how to save your free spot over on the pinned post in my Facebook group Autism and Inclusive Teac...

Join Steph Reed and Louise Maggs talking about collaboration between home and school for PECS users and success stories.

Podcast #14 PECS: Collaboration between home and school with Louise Maggs

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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p>Well the past few months have been, I don&#8217;t know how to describe it&#8230; <em>absolutely crazy! </em></p><p>It&#8217;s been very strange, difficult and challenging. There&#8217;s been highs. There&#8217;s been lows. But fundamentally, things have changed. Things are different. Things are uncertain. I know that we&#8217;ve all had our own experience and our own journey and our own challenges. So I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well during this pandemic.</p><p>If you have your own children, I hope that you are all in one piece and that you have managed to have some kind of quality time together.</p></div>
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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p>If you&#8217;re a key worker, we love you!</p><p>Parents, we love you! </p><p>Teachers, we love you. Thank you to everybody!</p><p>Now things for myself, and Autism Spectrum Teacher (which is myself!) have been very challenging because like perhaps yourself or others you know, I was without any work. My work before the COVID-19 pandemic was in schools, supporting staff, families, SENCO&#8221;S and teachers, developing SEND provision and practice.</p><p>Of course, then schools closed and I was unable to support the schools, and families in the same way that I would have done before. Now, we&#8217;ve all been managing the best that we could from a distance. To a point that&#8217;s helping some people, but of course I wanted to do more and essentially, I needed to keep everything that Autism Spectrum Teacher and myself does including all of the projects and this podcast.</p></div>
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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p>This is the reason why I&#8217;ve had to put the podcast <i>on hold for the past couple of months.</i> Without those means of ensuring stability for the podcast, I couldn&#8217;t continue it. However, I have some plans and I have put things in motion. I want to tell you all about the future plans!</p><p>We&#8217;ve all had to adapt, right? And to be honest, I&#8217;ve been really pleased with how some of the children have adapted! You know, sometimes we really do fear the worst don&#8217;t we!? </p><p>Of course there have been many challenges and a lot more challenges I would say, but we&#8217;ve got to stick to the positive here. There have been some children that have really surprised us.</p></div>
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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p>Now, this episode and the next seven podcast episodes are going to sound very different to previous episodes.</p><p>There is a theme that will be running through this and the next seven podcasts. And that is that&#8230; I&#8217;m very pleased and proud to announce that&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://courses.autismspectrumteacher.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong> I have released a series of online training courses</strong></a>, which gives a lot of concise and digestible information as well as practical strategies and how to apply these in real day life.</p><p>There&#8217;s a lot of information out there, but I&#8217;ve designed these courses to give you the key information, how to do different types of strategies in order so that you can go away and apply them straight away, especially because we know how personalised strategies and tailored strategies are really needed as every child is so different.</p><p>So this is my way right now to be able to support teachers, teaching assistants, SENCO&#8217;s, parents, carers, and anyone who is supporting an autistic child. The eight courses are all based around different themes.</p><p>Over the next seven episodes, I&#8217;m going to introduce each course, but of course I want to give you value and I want to give you free information. So you&#8217;re going to hear snapshots from the training to give you some information so you can still listen and hopefully take something from it. And of course, if you want to learn more, then <a href="https://www.autismspectrumteacher.com/online-courses/">visit this page.</a></p><p>I&#8217;ve been working really hard on these courses, making sure that they provide really beneficial information in bite-sized presentations, as well as reflection tasks, to help you think about those individuals or children around you, and their own personal abilities and needs.</p><p>After I&#8217;ve gone through this transition period, we&#8217;ll get back into those juicy episodes where there are interviews and lots of information, but bear with me while I&#8217;m going through this transition period.</p><p>During this episode, you will hear a 65 minute &#8216;snapshot&#8217; into one of the courses <a href="https://courses.autismspectrumteacher.com/p/understanding-autism-and-learning" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8216;Understanding Autism and Learning&#8217;</a> where I am speaking all about <strong>Neurodiversity.</strong></p><p>Enjoy the podcast episode!</p></div>
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<p>The pandemic has had a challenging impact on us all. I have needed to pivot to ensure the security of the podcast and other projects I run as Autism Spectrum Teacher.<br />
This is the first of a mini-series introducing the new online courses offering you in-depth knowledge and practical skills that you can apply straight away. The first one is 'Understanding Autism and Learning'. </p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.autismspectrumteacher.com/12-ast-updates-and-neurodiversity/">#12 AST updates and neurodiversity</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.autismspectrumteacher.com">Autism Spectrum Teacher</a>.</p>

The pandemic has had a challenging impact on us all. I have needed to pivot to ensure the security of the podcast and other projects I run as Autism Spectrum Teacher.  This is the first of a mini-series introducing the new online courses offering you i...

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					Well the past few months have been, I don&#8217;t know how to describe it&#8230; absolutely crazy! It&#8217;s been very strange, difficult and challenging. There&#8217;s been highs. There&#8217;s been lows. But fundamentally, things have changed. Things are different. Things are uncertain. I know that we&#8217;ve all had our own experience and our own journey and our own challenges. So I hope you and your loved ones are safe and well during this pandemic.If you have your own children, I hope that you are all in one piece and that you have managed to have some kind of quality time together.<br />
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					If you&#8217;re a key worker, we love you!Parents, we love you! Teachers, we love you. Thank you to everybody!Now things for myself, and Autism Spectrum Teacher (which is myself!) have been very challenging because like perhaps yourself or others you know, I was without any work. My work before the COVID-19 pandemic was in schools, supporting staff, families, SENCO&#8221;S and teachers, developing SEND provision and practice.Of course, then schools closed and I was unable to support the schools, and families in the same way that I would have done before. Now, we&#8217;ve all been managing the best that we could from a distance. To a point that&#8217;s helping some people, but of course I wanted to do more and essentially, I needed to keep everything that Autism Spectrum Teacher and myself does including all of the projects and this podcast.<br />
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					This is the reason why I&#8217;ve had to put the podcast on hold for the past couple of months. Without those means of ensuring stability for the podcast, I couldn&#8217;t continue it. However, I have some plans and I have put things in motion. I want to tell you all about the future plans!We&#8217;ve all had to adapt, right? And to be honest, I&#8217;ve been really pleased with how some of the children have adapted! You know, sometimes we really do fear the worst don&#8217;t we!? Of course there have been many challenges and a lot more challenges I would say, but we&#8217;ve got to stick to the positive here. There have been some children that have really surprised us.<br />
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					Now, this episode and the next seven podcast episodes are going to sound very different to previous episodes.There is a theme that will be running through this and the next seven podcasts. And that is that&#8230; I&#8217;m very pleased and proud to announce that&#8230;<a href="http://courses.autismspectrumteacher.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> I have released a series of online training courses</a>, which gives a lot of concise and digestible information as well as practical strategies and how to apply these in real day life.There&#8217;s a lot of information out there, but I&#8217;ve designed these courses to give you the key information, how to do different types of strategies in order so that you can go away and apply them straight away, especially because we know how personalised strategies and tailored strategies are really needed as every child is so different.So this is my way right now to be able to support teachers, teaching assistants, SENCO&#8217;s, parents, carers, and anyone who is supporting an autistic child. The eight courses are all based around different themes.

#12 AST updates and neurodiversity

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							<p><strong>Zafer Elcik is the Co Founder of the Otsimo app, which has over 100 educational games created specifically with the needs of autistic learners in mind. </strong></p>						</div>
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							<p>It was great to speak to Zafer as my special guest in this episode of the podcast, and hear about the story of Otsimo!</p><p></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zafer works alongside educators, speech and language therapists and families to develop educational games aimed at learning different concepts, as well as a free open source AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) tool for nonverbal children, in Turkish and English.</span></p>						</div>
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							<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zafer is from Ankara, Turkey, where it is estimated that 90% of autistic children do not get an education. The Turkish government offers children with special needs only 12 hours of education per month.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Zafer got his first smartphone, his autistic brother Alper took a sp</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">ecial interest and quickly learnt to navigate the phone. Zafer realised that this was an excellent opportunity to use the smartphone to teach his brother.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At the time, Alper was 6 years old, non verbal and could not read or write, however he could find pictures on the smart phone to communicate. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">There wasn&#8217;t many apps which focused on the learning priorities of children with special needs in mind. For example, they had too much information, animation or colours on the screen, which can be visually overwhelming and cause distraction.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Alongside his university friend and Alper’s teacher, Zafer created simple educational games. The first game he made was aimed at teaching colours and he was so impressed with how Alper learnt through the app, where other methods had not seemed successful.</span></p>						</div>
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							<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">More educational games followed with concepts such as money, reading, mark making, shapes and Social Stories. Otsimo also now has a free AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) app to help non verbal individuals to communicate.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A lot of children are really motivated by the cause and effect elements of using tablet and smartphone apps and this can be really engaging for them.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Otsimo wants to give families an opportunity to be part of teaching concepts through the use of the app. Supporting families to be part and sharing the educational journey with giving a framework of teaching concepts, social skills and communication.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The app also aim to tech vocabulary can then be further taught and extended in practical  contexts, which will help children to understand and generalise vocabulary.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Zafer is working with the Ministry of Education in Turkey, trying to close the gap by giving a tool to support teaching using the app.</span></p>						</div>
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							<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Watch Zafer and Alper in the BBC world hacks video</strong> </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-47001068/how-brotherly-love-led-to-an-app-to-help-thousands-of-autistic-children"><span style="font-weight: 400;">BBC World Hacks ‘How brotherly love led to an app to help thousands of autistic children’</span></a></p>						</div>
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							<p>I hope you enjoyed this episode of the podcast!</p><p>For more information about Otsimo, visit:</p>						</div>
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							<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the ever increasing concerns over the amount of screen time children are having, it is important to note that the use of smart phone or tablet apps <strong>must</strong></span><strong> be controlled and structured.</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a big difference between using <strong>educational apps for learning </strong>and apps for entertainment. </span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At school, we must ensure that tablet apps have a learning purpose and most importantly, that children are accessing a range of different practical learning experiences to support generalisation of learning.</span></p><p><em>Steph Reed</em></p>						</div>
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Zafer Elcik, founder of the Otsimo educational apps joins Steph Reed to discuss how he originally built the apps to help teach his brother. Zafer works alongside educators, speech and language therapists and families to develop educational games aimed ...

Zafer Elcik, founder of the Otsimo educational apps joins Steph Reed to discuss how he originally built the apps to help teach his brother. Zafer works alongside educators, speech and language therapists and families to develop educational games aimed at learning different concepts, as well as a free open source AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) tool in Turkish and English.

Podcast #10 Learning through technology with Zafer Elcik Co-Founder of Otsimo

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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Total Communication</strong> encompasses all the different ways we can communicate: speech, body language, gesture, eye contact, Makaton sign, body sign, symbols, pictures, photos, words, facial expressions, tone of voice etc.</p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Total Communication approach should be used at all times, giving as much opportunity for individuals to communicate and to understand your communication.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensuring an individuals preferred means of communication is encouraged and they have access to the needed resources at all times.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Knowing the communication behind the behaviour of our children and young people is essential to support their communication.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It is also important to understand how much meaning the individual is taking from communication supports around them, for example, do they recognise a symbol or photo. Would an object have more meaning to them?</span></p></div>
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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Enhancing communication by adapting the environment</strong></p><p><strong>Classroom/ home</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Think about the individuals access to needed communication supports (i.e. visual prompts for physical needs such as ‘toilet’ and ‘drink’. These need to be placed in accessible places such as on the wall and on the child’s table for easy access.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Encouraging the individual to want to communicate through highly stimulating and engaging resources and toys.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Providing choice i.e. giving a choice of 2 objects or a choice board of a selection of resources.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensuring there is an element of choice in each lesson for those learners who are able to make choices or learning to make choices.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Using dedicated spaces in the environment to communicate what happens there (i.e. a calm space with bean bag or work space with table.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visual structured systems that communicate a message i.e. a numbered system that an individual works through numbered activities 1 &#8211; 4 at the table or 3 cups in the bathroom with the sequence of resources such as toothbrush, toothpaste and flannel. Maybe its a photo of the individual on a chair showing that it is their chair or a circle on the floor showing where to sit.</span></p></div>
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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Playground/ garden</strong></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Does the individual have access to needed visual communication supports? Do we need to put laminated photos or pictures outside as visual prompts or an outside vocabulary board to support communication?</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Are the resources outside stimulating and engaging? Do the individuals want to communicate or request for specific resources?</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Intensive Interaction:</strong> an approach to developing early fundamentals of communication through interactions with individuals at their level of communication. Engaging in an interaction following the lead of the individual and taking turns in playful exchanges for example, joining the actions, sounds of the individual, playfully imitating them in a communicative exchange.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I have written more about <a href="https://www.autismspectrumteacher.com/intensive-interaction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Intensive Interaction here</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can find further information about this highly effective approach to early communication development for autistic individuals or those with complex needs at the <a href="https://www.intensiveinteraction.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Intensive Interaction website.</a></span></p></div>
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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><strong>Relaxing time</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Choice of relaxing or sensory resources or trays to request. Perhaps choice of activity such as doing stretches or  jumping on the trampette. This can be presented visually for learners who can access this type of communication.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Massage on a choice of body parts for example leg or fingers. This could be presented using photos or symbols perhaps.</span></p></div>
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<p>In this episode, I discuss and pose questions about enhancing opportunities for communication and interaction of those with autism and complex needs. This is through adapting the environment, our teaching approach and resources, both at school and home.</p>
<p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.autismspectrumteacher.com/8-enhancing-communication-opportunities-autism-and-learning-difficulties/">#8 Enhancing communication opportunities: Autism and learning disabilities</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.autismspectrumteacher.com">Autism Spectrum Teacher</a>.</p>

In this episode, I discuss and pose questions about enhancing opportunities for communication and interaction of those with autism and complex needs. This is through adapting the environment, our teaching approach and resources, both at school and home.

Total Communication is using all the different types of communication, speech, body language, tone of voice, Makaton sign, symbols, pictures, objects all to enhance communication. This is really important for those with learning difficulties, to support communication. In this episode, I discuss and pose questions about enhancing the environment both at school and home through adapting our environment, our teaching approach and resources.

#8 Enhancing communication opportunities: Autism and learning disabilities

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					<div class="elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode of the podcast is all about supporting children with reading and my special guest is Angela Charalambous, a reading specilaist from the </span><a href="http://www.the-workshop.co.za/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Workshop Reading Centre in Johannesburg</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parents and carers, continue reading with your child as long as you can, especially themes that are of interest to the child. Spending time reading with parents supports to manifest a</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> love of reading.</span></i></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Visit the </span><a href="http://www.the-workshop.co.za/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Workshop Reading Centre website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to find out more information about the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">assessments, dyslexia screening, Cellfield intervention and workshops for parents and teachers that Angela mentioned in the podcast episode.</span></p></div>
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<p>Angela Charalambous, a reading specialist from the Workshop Reading Centre in Johannesburg discusses strategies to support a child to enjoy reading and feel more confident.</p>
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Angela Charalambous, a reading specialist from the Workshop Reading Centre in Johannesburg discusses strategies to support a child to enjoy reading and feel more confident.

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					This episode of the podcast is all about supporting children with reading and my special guest is Angela Charalambous, a reading specilaist from the <a href="http://www.the-workshop.co.za/">Workshop Reading Centre in Johannesburg</a>.<br />
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A child&#8217;s reading ability will have a huge impact on all areas of learning. <br />
Angela discusses different strategies to support a child to enjoy reading and feel more confident!<br />
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			Classroom strategies to support children who have reading difficulties		<br />
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										Making learning multisensory<br />
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										Using visual supports such as pictures and objects<br />
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										Enabling children to present their work in different formats<br />
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										Using the child's interests<br />
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										Accommodating sensory needs and ensuring child is comfortable<br />
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										Breaking down work into manageable chunks<br />
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										Revisiting learning<br />
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										Giving an outline of lesson and tasks<br />
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										Giving explicit instructions<br />
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					Maintain a love of reading<br />
Read with the child in 3 different areas: <br />
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Easy material for the child such as a simple book below age level, in order to boost confidence <br />
Reading age appropriate material <br />
Reading at a challenging or above age level, perhaps in the child&#8217;s area of interest to ensure their motivation<br />
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Parents and carers, continue reading with your child as long as you can, especially themes that are of interest to the child. Spending time reading with parents supports to manifest a love of reading.<br />
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Ensuring children’s confidence in their reading is key<br />
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					Thank you Angela!<br />
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Visit the <a href="http://www.the-workshop.co.za/">Workshop Reading Centre website</a> to find out more information about the assessments, dyslexia screening, Cellfield intervention and workshops for parents and teachers that Angela mentioned in the podcast episode.<br />
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#7 Supporting reading with Angela Charalambous from the Workshop Reading Centre

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