Specialisterne: leveraging the unique skills of Autistics at competitive market terms

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The post from yesterday was on ‘Social Behaviour Mapping’, a technique developed by Michelle Garcia Winner.
Garcia Winner believes in an approach not unlike that I have already mentioned in my posts on the Eaton Arrowsmith School and the Tools of the Mind curriculum. This is focused on creating strong foundations first and foremost in children with special needs…

…Treatment plans for children who struggle with social learning often are created by observing and/or assessing a student’s conversational and play weaknesses and then developing plans that attempt to remediate these (skill) challenges. We describe this process as ‘teaching in the leaves.’ However, with regard to social learning, the ability to competently produce advanced or more progressive social thinking and related social skills grows out of a strong root system and a solid trunk, from which sturdy branches develop that produce healthy leaves…

Here is a link to the ‘Social Learning Tree’: http://www.socialthinking.com/images/stories/st_icons/STreeFinal.jpg

(source: Social Thinking-Social Learning Tree)