Empowering Teachers & Parents of Autistic Children

11 May 2023 · 1 min

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In this introductory video, Sasha Long—former special education teacher, board‑certified behavior analyst, and founder of The Autism Helper—explains the mission to support educators, clinicians, and parents of children with autism or special needs. She outlines the range of resources offered through The Autism Helper, including YouTube videos on proactive behavior strategies, classroom setup, and academic skill development, as well as membership access, online courses covering literacy, executive functions, behavior, and data, and social media channels. The focus is on providing clear, positive, proactive methods to improve communication and academic abilities while reducing negative behaviors, and on helping viewers create structured, less overwhelming plans for classrooms or home environments. She invites viewers to subscribe for more content.

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Having clear, positive, proactive strategies for increasing communication and academic skills as well as decreasing negative behaviors is so important for children with autism and special needs. I'm Sasha Long. I'm a former special education teacher and a board-certified behavior analyst, and I'm the founder and president of The Autism Helper. Here at The Autism Helper, we are here to support educators, clinicians, and parents with their children with autism or special needs, and we do that in a lot of ways. Here on YouTube, we are sharing proactive behavior strategies, classroom setup tools, ways to increase academic skills, and more. We also share resources and strategies through our membership, our online courses on literacy, executive functions, behavior, and data, as well as through our social media channels. We want to share lots of different ways that you can really proactively work with your kids and students, from the way you set up your environment to the way you give feedback to what type of instructional activities you set up, All of this is really important, and we want to reduce the overwhelm by helping you create a path and a plan for your classroom or for your child. So if you'd like to learn more, click subscribe, and we have a lot more coming for you.