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December 2018 Newsletter

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STAGES NEWS: Our Most Popular Blogs from 2018!
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Inclusion Toolkit: Top Ten Products to Accommodate Students with Autism in the Classroom
 
The beginning of a new school year can be a difficult time for some children with autism. Shifting from the comfort of home to an environment packed with loud voices, stiff chairs, slamming doors, and a new structure can trigger anything from distraction and discomfort to full meltdowns.
  
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How to Prepare For Your IEP Meeting - For Parents of Children with Autism
 
Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) are defined as written plans outlining a program designed to meet the unique needs of one child. Walking into an IEP meeting prepared will help you and the school design the best plan for your child. Children with autism have distinctive needs, and in your role as an advocate for your child you can help school personnel understand what accommodations will be most successful in supporting your child’s strengths and weaknesses. 
 
 
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Parent Strategies to Help Children with Autism Cope with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)

In this article, we explore Sensory Processing Disorder (also called sensory integration or sensory sensitivity), and how these issues can be alleviated and treated, and strategies parents and caregivers can use at home and school to help ease day to day life.  Stages Learning Materials provides a comprehensive collection of products that alleviate sensory challenges.

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Lesson Plan: Let's Move with Verbs

In this lesson, students will learn about different action verbs and review present and past tense through the Stages Learning Verb Cards

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Lesson Plan: Using Identical Matching to Teach Beginning Language Skills to Children with Autism

In this lesson, students will use Language Builder 3D – 2D Matching Kits to practice matching things that are the same. 

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Autism in the News:

How pregnancy may shape a child's autism

Spectrum News, December 5.

Even after her first child, Shane, was diagnosed with autism last year at the age of 2, Melissa Patao knew she wanted a bigger family. She was aware that any other children she had would have high odds of being diagnosed with the condition — estimates suggest that about 20 percent of siblings of autistic children also receive a diagnosis — but she was more than willing to take the chance. Read More ...

 
The huge issue that most autism research funding ignores

Washington Post, December 14.

Bryna Siegel is an expert on autism who has long been controversial for her blunt talk and unconventional views about the disorder. In this post, she is as blunt as ever, arguing that most of the money that goes toward autism research is not helping families deal with the disorder — and why that should be made a focus. Read More ...

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Thanks again for visiting our site and checking out our resources! We hope you find them to be useful in your home, classroom and daily life!

Warm Regards,

Angela Nelson

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President, Stages Learning Materials