A special-education teacher shares concrete accommodations for autistic students: readable fonts, step-by-step directions, noise-cancelling headphones, and scheduled breaks. When the whole school adopts these adjustments, autistic students navigate general classrooms more successfully.
Sometimes it's the little things. Sometimes it's the font that you use. Sometimes it's the way that you give directions, offering noise-canceling headphones, offering breaks. As the special education teacher in your classroom, sharing those ideas in your whole school community with gen ed teachers, with special teachers, with clinicians, with administrators is the way you can make your whole school community more accepting for individuals with autism who are not in your classroom all day. They are in your whole school community. So share those ideas this month with everyone, and you can make your whole school community a more inclusive place.
