Sasha from The Autism Helper shows how to make and use an adapted picture book that teaches kids with autism to answer "how" questions through sequencing. The book uses three picture cards per activity (eating cereal, drawing, running a race) with first/next/last language, and works especially well for non-verbal students learning to understand steps.
Hi, this is Sasha from The Autism Helper, and this is a video tutorial of my How Do You Do It? adapted book for children with autism. So this book is great to really focus on the how questioning and sequencing in particular. So it follows a similar pattern as all of my books do on each page and is movable. So each page will have a little prompt like, "I want to eat some cereal. How do you do it?" And then you need to match the 3 pictures for the 3 steps. So this book can get a little confusing with how many pictures are involved because there's 3 pictures on each page. So I give you this kind of storage system because in a baggie I find them to be kind of a pain. So I just laminated two of these pages double-sided and then put Velcro to store the pictures. And this might be too big of a field size for some of your kids because for some of my kids it is kind of difficult to look at this many pictures and find the right ones. So I also made this sheet, which I haven't personally made yet, um, but it's kind of a small board if you just want to give three. And honestly, a lot of times I'll just take the three pictures that I'm looking for and lay them out and then the student needs to put them in order. So how do you eat cereal? First you get a spoon and a bowl, then you pour cereal, and then you pour milk. So the 3 steps. So you can kind of go through each page, and I like that this kind of can be thrown to the side so you can really go through the book and get into it. So I want to draw a picture, how do you do it? So you'll have to find the steps. So you, again, you can like pull the 3 to the side, 'cause it kinda does even take me a little bit of time to look for them. So, you know, get crayons, get paper, color your picture. So really breaking the activity down into 3 steps, and this really builds a lot of language, 'cause think of how many things you need to talk about just in drawing a picture. There's crayons and paper and the 3 steps, working on first, next, and last. It's a really hard skill, but the pictures really help a lot, even with some of your kids that are nonverbal. So I'll just breeze through the other pages pretty quickly. So running a race, I tried to think of a lot of different types of activities and ones that our kids do commonly. So this will kind of help generalize as well because they're familiar with these activities. And then there are 3 pictures for each one. And that's it! So this was an adapt— a video tutorial of my How Do You Do It? Adapted Book for Children with Autism by theautismhelper.com.
