1. Ε.Ε.Ε.Ε.Κ School of Special Education & Training
Chios - Greece
3th Project Meeting at Rybnik, Poland

2. methods and teaching approaches
Part A
Step by step
Cognitive Tutoring
TEACCH
Social stories
methods and teaching approaches
Communicate – motivate – connect - teach - reward
Role Playing

3. Our students conditions
Autism
intellectual disability.
Down syndrome.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Cerebral Palsy – multiple disabilities

4. TEACCH Treatment and Εducation of Autistic and Communication Handicapped Children
Fully structured teaching and schedule.
What I am going to learn, where, how long, with whom, with what means
What is the student going to do
What is the teacher going to do
clinical, training, and research program based at the University of North Carolina. Clinical services diagnostic evaluations; parent training and and individual counseling. TEACCH developed the intervention approach called “Structured TEACCHing”, an array of teaching or treatment principles and strategies based on the learning characteristics of individuals with ASD, including strengths in visual information processing, and difficulties with social communication, attention, and executive function

5. Using TEACCH to inform students about sequence of events and reduce anxiety

6. Teacher Images
Student images
Class Timetable

7. Student Timetable

8. communication method
Applied to cases with autism, intellectual disability, with limited to non existent verbal skills
Uses images and aims to teach students to:
comment
ask
answer
take initiative

10. Social Stories ● More appropriate for high-functioning students
with Autism, intellectual disability, ADHD, aiming to teach and improve behavior
● aims :
a) to describe the situation and prompt
the student to behave appropriately
b) to personalize teaching of social skills.
c) to teach students adaptive routines
d) to demonstrate and teach behavior in
real life environments

11. Swimming pool
social story

12. Applied to individuals with speech impairment

13. Role Playing
More appropriate for high-functioning students with Autism, intellectual disability, ADHD, aiming to teach and improve behavior
Has the same aims as the “Social Stories” method, but the students participate actively, playing roles

14. Free play
Aims to develop and strengthen the interaction as well as the comprehension and usage of speech.
Also aims to arm students with strategies for verbal communication in a variety of environments.

15. Step by step
Gradual transition of steps from teacher to student starting from the end 3

16. Software (available in Greek)
The grid (for individuals with speech impairment)
The symwritter (translates typimg to images)

17. Multi-sensory approach
Use of:
images
words
narration
touch
computer

18. Cognitive Tutoring
Watch
Do with me
Do yourself

19. Motivation through constant rewarding
Helps behavioral change, self - regulation

20. Teaching strategies
for students with Cerebral Palsy, multiple disabilities
Adapt class spatial layout according to student’s functional needs.
Enrich teaching with material to facilitate learning
Provide psychological support for students and parents
Promote a friendly atmosphere in the class
Use an interdisciplinary approach to cover a wide range of students learning needs

21. Strategies for effective teaching
applied to a variety of cases with special needs
Continuous repetition of the learning
target
Customization of teaching according to the student’s specific needs
Teaching in real life environments,
(canteen, super market, traffic education, olive gathering, etc)
Rewards in school and at home in cooperation with the family.

22. Strategies for effective teaching …continued
Custom – tailored program providing the student with more time
Long, loosely structured brakes between teaching sessions
Teaching and cooperating with parents Home is a continuation for school

23. best practice examples
PART B
best practice examples

24. Best Practices – Language teaching example
Cooperation between teachers
Student with difficulty in reading, spelling and writing.
Expresses denial to participate in class.
Likes looking up information using the internet.(language teacher provides keywords)
Motive for learning
Presents images and information in class

25. Case Study Using a combination of: to teach a student to switch on,
TEACCH
PECS
step by step
to teach a student to switch on,
work on and shut down the computer

26. Task – cards library.
Task is built as a sequence of cards

27. Instructions for switching on the computer and application launch

29. Instructions for switching off the computer

30. Student Task folder
Student verifies completion of each step