Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School - Softcover

Devine, Adele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184905441X ISBN 13: 9781849054416

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Children on the autism spectrum are often highly visual learners, making colour a powerful and motivating learning tool.

This book explains how colour coding helps young people with autism to generalise lessons already learnt. For example, assigning the colour aqua to all personal care activities or the colour purple to timetabling and transitions establishes clear, visual categories. This allows children to draw on learnt experiences, which creates a sense of order, reduces anxiety, and can aid communication, understanding emotions, organisation, coping with change and diversifying diet. A wealth of tried-and-tested printable resources to enable the practical application of colour coding in the classroom and at home are included on a CD-ROM.

With colourful illustrations and resources, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism is an effective, must-have teaching tool for anyone involved in the education of young people with autism.

About this title

About the Author

Adele Devine is a Special Needs teacher at a school for young people with severe learning difficulties and autism. She has over a decade of experience teaching children on the autism spectrum and worked as an ABA home tutor before qualifying as a teacher in 2004. Adele has a regular two-page feature in Teach Early Years magazine and shares her knowledge of special education needs through 'A Special Blog' (www.senassist.com/blog). In 2010, she co-founded the multi-award winning SEN Assist autism software with her husband. They have three children and live in Surrey, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184905441X
• ISBN 13: 9781849054416
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208