New Teacher And Autism

Autistic children are reluctant to accept changes and can become confused, anxious and sometimes aggressive when routines or situations change.

One change: new teacher and autism is a complex situation of acceptance both on the part of the autistic educator and autistic student.

A new class of students is sometimes quite a difficult transition, getting to know names, understand friendships, becoming accustomed to the wants and needs of the students can take some time.

For an autistic educator a new class with an autistic student can also be stressful. Most of your time and efforts may well be taken up with finding strategies to help the autistic student accept you and settle back into classroom routines.

Autistic children like routines, sameness and structure and may become anxious when any of these change.

A good point to remember is that autistic children have poor social skills and lack the ability to mind read or understand facial expressions or body language, so it wont work telling them jokes, smiling, nodding and other facial expressions, or trying to make them laugh, they just simply wont understand you.

There are help and autism resources available to help with subjects like new teacher and autism as well as other social skills an autistic student will need in school.

It will help if the autistic student is aware of the change to his / her teacher and has been given support to understand why and when this will be happening.

The appropriate autism resources for this are something called autism social stories; they will help explain the change giving key focus to the main points, i.e. why, what were and when; helping the autistic child understand the impending change and hopefully make the transition easier and less stressful.

It would be a good idea to ensure that the leaving teacher has implemented these autism resources and has explained to the autistic student why he is leaving and why you are starting with the help of the autism social skills stories.

New teacher and autism social skills stories can be downloaded and used to help make the situation less confusing for the autistic student.

Download autism social stories for this and other school related social skills stories all designed to help autistic children find better coping strategies whilst at school.

Social skills stories can help all autistic children with social situations they struggle to understand or find stressful.

Download school stories from:

www.autismsocialstories.com/school

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social skills stories for school can be immediately down loaded as above or for preschool social skills stories visit:
www.autismsocialstories.com/preschool_one

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