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Welcome to Lilly Flores' wiki on Teaching writen language skills to children with autism!!!! I hope you enjoy the information contained in this wiki. Anything you find here is truly for information purposes only and in no way should replace interventions and ideas given by your child's teacher, therapist, doctor... Although I have geared this wiki towards teaching children with autism written language, much of the information can be used for typical children and children diagnosed with other disabilities. Enjoy!!!! All of the links have little green arrows after their names

//__ Resources __//  Augmentative and Alternative Communication This website is an online instructional activities and resources for teachers in many different topics. Some of these topics include articulation, auditory discrimination, language, math, early learning, reading, and phonics activities to name a few. This website also offers organizational tools and handouts on topics such as augmentative communication, teaching students with autism, books with repeated lines, and many others.

[|AAC] National Institute on Deafness and other communication disorders Although this website is geared toward Deafness and other communication disorders (NIDCD) there are many topics of interest for parents and teachers, one of which is a page with speech and language developmental milestones with many answers to questions parents and teachers may have. It has many ideas on teaching children diagnosed with different disabilities and how those affect communication as well.

[|NIDCD] Autism Speaks This website’s goal is to have the community work together to ask government and private companies to take action in order to address autism. In this website you’ll find the latest news on autism, fundraising opportunities, information like diagnosis, living with a child with autism, outreach opportunities, a social network, and many other great links. Although this website is not directly related to writing skills I felt it was important enough to include it here. [|Autism Speaks] // Ideas, Resources, Articles, Lesson plans, and games // Lesson Tutor In this website one can find lesson plans, supporting articles, ideas for many different topics. For example I found great games that teachers and parents can play with children to help with communication, lesson plans for teaching American Sign Language (ASL). In this website one can also find cross curriculum unit studies, worksheets for all abilities, levels and subjects for children from preschool age all the way through high school.

[|Lesson Tutor]

Positively Autism This website encompasses many different areas that have to do with autism. Here you will find free resources, lesson plans, teaching materials, games, educational materials, and more – all geared to working with children with autism.

[|Positively Autism]

Spelling, grammar, and writing games The following websites contain information on teaching spelling, and grammar, but most importantly there are tons of games for the kids to play that are fun but also that develop necessary skills for spelling, grammar, and writing. [|Net Rover] [|Autism Inspiration] 

Angel Fire

The following website contains so many links devoted to supporting those who work with children with autism that it would be hard to explain them all. Just click on the link below and have fun exploring.

[|Angel Fire]

__ Articles __ Suite 101 This is an article devoted to the improvement of handwriting skills for students with autism [|Handwriting]

Developing writing skills in children with autism This link takes you directly to an article on teaching writing skills to children with autism, but the website itself has many other resources and links ranging from health, parenting, education, to business, and many other topics. [|Writing Skills] //__ Trainings __// Handy Learning, Inc. In this website you will find the training: //__The write stuff__//. It is recommended for parents, teachers, occupational therapists and any other person interested in engaging children in fun activities that develop the necessary muscles for proper writing.

[|The Write Stuff] Handwriting without Tears Handwriting without tears is a complete writing curriculum. In this site you will find information on teaching letter formation, letter teaching order, products to teach handwriting, information for teachers, parents, therapists, and a place to sign up for their training.

[|Handwriting without Tears]