Sasha from theautismhelper.com shows two inference games for autistic students: Who Am I focuses on community helpers, Where Am I on familiar locations. Each comes with 24 laminated cards, a scorecard for dry-erase markers, and prompts like waiter or movie theater to practice inference skills through peer play.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of Making Inferences Who Am I and Where Am I question games. So there's 2 different games included in this packet, and the first one is Who Am I, and it's focusing on community helpers. So it's working on making inferences from a hint of the community helper and inferring from the contextual cues which community helper it is. So this is a great way to target inferences and a social studies topic at the same time. Each game comes with a title card, a directions card, and a scorecard. I really like having everything labeled, of course, so whether you're putting this in a baggie or in a Tupperware box, you can tape this on the top and have the directions in there. If a group is working on this independently, then they'll know how to do— play the game. For the scorecard, I kind of envisioned laminating this and using a dry erase marker. You could write kids' initials in here and then score which questions they got correct, how many, with tally marks in the gray boxes. And then this would lend really easily to taking data if you're still doing it in a game setup. So each game has 24 cards to be laminated, laminated, or if you just want to print it on cardstock and cut out. These ones are focusing on "Who am I?" So an example of one card is, "I take your order when you go to the restaurant and then I bring you your food. Who am I?" And then the answer, the waiter. So obviously you'll be asking the kids the questions or having peers ask the questions. We do that a lot to really work on peer interaction, and then they can tell them the right answer. So the right answer is in a different color to kind of give that cue to stop reading here. Um, so there's a bunch of different questions for the Who Am I, 24 different cards. And then the next game is set up exactly the same, Where Am I. So these are all familiar locations that your students would be able to infer the location. Same thing, there's a title card, directions, and scorecard, and then the different questions for Where Am I.
So, I'm eating popcorn and watching a movie on a big screen. Where am I?
At the movie theater.
So these are It's just so great to be able to work on making inferences in a fun way. Anything that's a game, my kids immediately love, so we've had a lot of fun playing these, and it's really working on a skill that they need direct practice on.
Um, it's gone really, really well with my kids. I've been really happy with it. Um, one person mentioned having a difficult time printing this because the margins were small. I didn't have any trouble at all, but I would just make sure your printer, um, setup is on the right. Is on the right thing, just to make sure your margins aren't too narrow, or just press minimize or shrink to printer page, um, just in case since the margins are smaller on these. Um, so yeah, this was a product preview of Making Inferences Who Am I and Where Am I question games. For more tips, resources, and materials to help you help kids with autism, please come to theautismhelper.com.
