Educating Students with Autism in Inclusive Classrooms: Useful Articles & Handouts

What is Inclusion? How can it work in my classroom?
What Should an Inclusive Classroom Look Like?
What specific strategies can I use to support diverse learners?
What do people with autism define "good support" and "good teaching"?
How can I help learners who struggle with behavior?
How can I help learners needing communication support?

What is Inclusion? How can it work in my classroom?

Kick Em Out or Keep Em In: Exclusion or Inclusion

by Jack Pearpoint & Marsha Forest

http://www.inclusion.com/artkick.html

Inclusion: School as a Caring Community

http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/ddc/incl/caring.htm

Community Leadership for Inclusion

by Kathie Snow
www.disabilityisnatural.com

“Our School Doesn’t Offer Inclusion” and Other Legal Blunders. (Educational Leadership)

by Paula Kluth, Rich Villa, & Jacque Thousand

http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/200112/kluth.html

What Should an Inclusive Classroom Look Like?

Standards for Diverse Learners (Educational Leadership)

by Paula Kluth & Diana Straut

http://www.ascd.org/ed_topics/el200109_kluth.html

The School of My Dreams (Facilitated Communication Institute)

by Jamie Burke

http://soeweb.syr.edu/thefci/8-1bur.htm

What specific strategies can I use to support diverse learners?

Accommodating All Children in the Early Childhood Classroom

http://www.circleofinclusion.org/english/accommodating/index.html

Common Sense Tools: MAPS and CIRCLES for Inclusive Education

by Marsha Forest & Jack Pearpoint

http://www.inclusion.com/artcommonsensetools.html

Differentiating Instruction: Finding Manageable Ways to Meet Individual Needs
by Scott Willis and Larry Mann

http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/cupdate/2000/1win.html

How to Educate Students with ADHD

http://www.help4teachers.com/add.htm

Teaching Strategies

by Deschenes, Ebeling and Sprague

http://www.uni.edu/coe/inclusion/strategies/types_adaptation.html

Teaching Tips for Children and Adults with Autism

by Temple Grandin
http://www.autism.org/temple/tips.html

What Matters Most: Ensuring That High School Students With Disabilities Are Members of...

by Cheryl M. Jorgensen, Douglas Fisher, Carol Tashie, and Michael Sgambati

http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/161/prof4.html

What do people with autism define “good support” and “good teaching”?

Advice to Peer Supporters. (Facilitated Communication Institute)

by Eugene Marcus

http://soeweb.syr.edu/thefci/9-2mar.htm

Compulsion, Yes, and Freedom Too. (Facilitated Communication Institute)
by Eugene Marcus

http://soeweb.syr.edu/thefci/10-1mar.htm

Don’t Mourn For Us.

by Jim Sinclair

http://www.autistics.org/library/dontmourn.html

Identifying, Educating, and Empowering Allies.

(From: Ask and Tell: Advocacy and Disclosure for People on the Autism Spectrum)

by Phil Schwarz

http://www.autistics.org/library/allies.html

The World I Want to Live In.

by Amanda Baggs

http://www.autistics.org/library/want.html

How can I help learners who struggle with behavior?

What’s “a Behavior?”

by Kathie Snow

http://www.disabilityisnatural.com/articles/whats_a_behavior.htm

The Process of Gentle Teaching

http://www.gentleteaching.nl/indexus.htm

10 Things You Can Do To Support a Person With Difficult Behaviors.

By David Pitonyak

http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/bc/3f56db2/bc/Dimagine+Folder/10+Things+You+Can+Do.PDF?BCFO9NBBIC1juZrK

When Your Child Engages in Difficult Behaviors: Notes For Parents

By David Pitonyak

http://www.paradigm-uk.org/pdf/Articles/notes_for_parents.pdf

How can I help learners needing communication support?

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

http://www.circleofinclusion.org/english/augcomm/index.html

Communication and Learning: Creating Systems of Support for Students with Significant Disabilities
By Michael McSheehan, Rae Sonnemeier, & Cheryl Jorgensen

http://www.tash.org/express/may2002b.htm

On Being a Communication Ally (Facilitated Communication Institute)

by Mayer Shevin

http://soeweb.syr.edu/thefci/7-4she.htm