A teacher shares updates to an Autism Acceptance Unit designed for general education classrooms, including more inclusive language and images. Started 15 years ago as an April initiative, the program transformed school culture and is now flexible enough to use anytime during the year.
So we have recently updated our Autism Acceptance Unit with new, more inclusive language and more inclusive images. I'm going to share some photos of that in a second. This unit is really designed to use with general education classrooms. This was something I started doing probably about 15 years ago when I was in the classroom. I started doing lessons in gen ed classrooms, and this was something that really changed the culture and dynamic in my school. I started this as like an April Autism Acceptance Initiative. Um, you can do this anytime throughout the year, but it was a good like prompt and reminder to do this, and I absolutely loved doing this.
