Evaluating Visual Perceptual Skills in Special Education Students
Visual perception is the brain’s interpretation of what one sees. We can observe its development as young children respond to the people and things …
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Special Education Teaching Tips: How Do Fine-Motor Activities Develop Visual Perception?
As young children manipulate toys they develop visual perceptual skills to discriminate shapes, sizes and how objects relate to one another in space. …
Continue ReadingFive Tips on Helping Students with Special Needs Deal with Stress: Active Teaching Strategies
Let’s face it, stress is everywhere. However, students with special needs may experience an increased amount of stress due to academic and …
Continue ReadingInterest Sheet for Talented and Gifted Students: Help Your Students Identify Their Strongest Areas
If you’re trying to help your GT students build on their strengths, you can hand out this interest sheet. Talented and gifted students can fill out …
Continue ReadingNature vs. Nurture in Giftedness
The question of nature vs. nurture in giftedness has long stumped intelligence theorists. The controversy has evolved over the last couple of …
Continue ReadingTeaching Strategies for Asperger Syndrome
Students with Asperger syndrome have several issues that can affect how they interact in the classroom. These teaching strategies for Asperger …
Continue ReadingA Modified Lesson Plan on Details in Reading for Special Education Students
Details, details, details…ah, the details can make a conversation or piece of writing interesting or something to avoid. Helping students with …
Continue ReadingHelping Special Needs Students Build a Mini-Vocabulary: A Modified Lesson Plan for Teachers
Having an extensive vocabulary creates a rich toolkit of usable words for any student. In special education classrooms, showing students with special …
Continue ReadingPositive Strategies For Disciplining Children With Autism
When parents or teachers must discipline a child with autism for behavioral reasons, they should be aware that some techniques are more effective than …
Continue ReadingTaking the Art of Inference into the Special Education Classroom: A Modified Lesson on Inference
We all make inferences in our conversations and in our writing. In the classroom, teachers can teach students with special needs how to create further …
Continue ReadingComparing Units of Measurement: Modified Lesson Plan for a Simple Mathematics Activity
Teaching students with special needs the concepts of weights can be as simple as comparing units of measure for typical items in the classroom, around …
Continue ReadingUse Poetry to Brainstorm Holiday Ideas With Your Special Needs Students: 6 Activities
Creating holiday poetry activities can give students with special needs a sense of real power and beauty with words that can be shaped into poems that …
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