Intervention Strategies in ASD: Skills needed to be addressed in preventing school failure and absenteeism - Module 3

6.3. STRATEGIES TO HELP STUDENTS TO DEVELOPED SD/SA:

• Learn more about the needs of students with disabilities
• Work with other educators to identify out-of-school experiences that reinforce students’ personalized learning plans
• Participate in classroom behaviour observations and help measure students’ progress visually
• Ensure that all students have access to information about career development and establish a comprehensive school counselling program to empowered students to act in a self-determined manner in taking advantage of these opportunities. Make sure the student knows his/her rights
• Involve the student in decisions about his/her learning: it gives them a chance to talk directly with the team about the goals, the transition plan, what helps or not.
• Practice how he/she can talk to teachers about his/her issues: those conversations can be hard for a teen to initiate. Practice ‘conversation starters’ to make it easier.
• Effective modelling of self-advocacy skills

• Stop, look, listen: some children with ASD are self-focused and personalized situation in order to the difficult of understand some social behaviour. It is useful for them to asking themselves some questions:
• Who is involved here? Are these friends, acquaintances, authority figures? What do I know about these people? What can I expect?
• Where are we? What is the context?
• What is happening/what are people doing? It’s important to verbally go through who is doing what.
• What do the others feel, and what might be their points of view?
• What’s my role here? Is this personal to me?
• What’s likely to happen?
• Problem-solving skills:
  
• Identify the problem: what are thing like when they are the way we want them to be?
• Analyse the problem: at what stage is this problem? This helps to identify the urgency of the problem
• Describe the problem: writing it in the form of a statement using 12 words approximately.
• Look for root causes: what caused this problem? Who is responsible for this problem? When did this problem first emerge? Why did this happen? How did this variance from the standard come to be? Where does it hurt us the most? How do we go about resolving this problem? Can we solve this problem for good so it will never occur again? 
• Develop alternate solutions: develop a list of alternate solutions and rank them based of efficiency, long-term value and the resources you need and have.
• Implement the solution: planning on what happens next if something goes wrong.
• Measure the results: did it work? Was a good solution?