Autism

5 Ways to Prepare for your Special Education Back-to-School Craziness

Jul 16, 20215 min read

5 Ways to Prepare for your Special Education Back-to-School Craziness

Are you preparing for your back-to-school activities for your special education classroom or students with autism or other disabilities?

Audra Jensen

Jul 11, 20215 min read

Writing IEP goals like a BOSS!

Do you struggle with the time-consuming task of writing IEP goals for your Preschool Special Education students? Get some ideas here!

5 Ways to Spice Up Preschool Morning Meetings Using Names and Faces

Audra Jensen

Jul 9, 20214 min read

5 Ways to Spice Up Preschool Morning Meetings Using Names and Faces

Looking for some fun Preschool or Kindergarten Morning Meeting or Circle Time ideas? How about for your Special Education class? Are you...

Series: Parenting an Adult with Autism Level 1 PART 4

Audra Jensen

Jun 22, 20216 min read

Series: Parenting an Adult with Autism Level 1 PART 4

What Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis is in "normal speak" and what it looks like in my 24-year-old son with Level 1 ASD Part 1 (CLICK...

Series: Parenting an Adult with Autism Level 1 PART 1

Audra Jensen

May 19, 20215 min read

Series: Parenting an Adult with Autism Level 1 PART 1

What Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis is in "normal speak" and what it looks like in my 24-year-old son with Level 1 ASD.

Blast from the Past — Hair cut adventures

Audra Jensen

Apr 9, 20211 min read

Blast from the Past — Hair cut adventures

Young boy with autism and sensory sensitivities sneaks into the bathroom to cut his hair down to the scalp. Reminiscent story!

Audra Jensen

Apr 2, 20213 min read

Autism Acceptance

Today is what they call "Autism Awareness Day" and it's world Autism Awareness Month. Blech. I mean, it's fine and all that, but here are...

Audra Jensen

Sep 2, 20183 min read

SpEd Daily Data Tracking

Finally got around to posting the system we'll be using this year in the new ABA classroom for tracking daily data for the students. See...

Audra Jensen

Aug 15, 20182 min read

Fun Individual Schedule Idea

Thank you, Pinterest, for all these good ideas. This need came from the fact that many of the students I have worked with are moderately...

Data Collection/Measurement Forms Part Deux

Audra Jensen

Aug 8, 20185 min read

Data Collection/Measurement Forms Part Deux

Continuation from this post... So continuing our discussion on different ways to take behavioral data, here are some of the most commonly...

Audra Jensen

Aug 6, 20186 min read

Data Collection/Measurement Forms

I just updated and added to my new TeachersPayTeachers account. I only just discovered TpT, and I'm so excited! I have all these...

Audra Jensen

Jul 30, 20187 min read

Educational vs. Medical dx of Autism

I get this question a lot, especially from a new family who is perhaps on a waiting list for a medical diagnosis but are starting the...

Audra Jensen

Jul 27, 20185 min read

To those new parents out there! Part II

Here comes #'s 6-10 of what newly autism diagnosis parents might find useful! #6 Be prepared to advocate for your child Seems logical,...

Audra Jensen

Jul 26, 20185 min read

To those new parents out there! Part I

So I know it's been a number of years (nearly 20!) since I've been there, but I remember those first scary months like they were...