Accessing the Curriculum for Pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Using the TEACCH Programme to Help Inclusion [Paperback]

Gary Mesibov (Author), Marie Howley (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1853467952 | ISBN-13: 978-1853467950 | Publication Date: June 20, 2003 | Edition: 1

This book explains ways to open up the curriculum to pupils who have autistic spectrum disorders. The particular difficulties experienced by pupils are discussed in direct relation to specific areas of the curriculum, including: core and foundation subjects, PSHE, citizenship and broader aspects such as break times and assemblies.

The authors show the reader how structured teaching can enable pupils with ASD to access the curriculum in a meaningful way and offer many practical strategies to facilitate this process.

This book will benefit those on specialist autism courses, all providers of autism-specific training and the many teachers and teaching assistants working with autistic pupils who are asking for this guidance.

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About the Author

Gary Mesibov, Director, Division TEACCH at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an acknowledged world expert in the field. Marie Howley has substantial experience of teaching pupils with ASD and is a TEACCH trainer. She is Senior Lecturer in Special Education: Autism at the Centre for Special Needs Education and Research, University College Northampton.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (June 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1853467952
• ISBN-13: 978-1853467950
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #223,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!, March 26, 2004

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This review is from: Accessing the Curriculum for Pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Using the TEACCH Programme to Help Inclusion (Paperback)

Division TEACCH have never promoted themselves in the way that some other programs working with children have, and for a long while there haven't been any readily-available books describing their current methods and wealth of accumulated clinical experience.

This book begins to fill that gap.

Although it often refers to the requirements of the UK's National Curriculum, it should be equally relevant to teachers, parents and professionals in the USA and elsewhere.

It gives a detailed (but very readable) account of how the various TEACCH tools such as structure, visual schedules and worksystems can be individualized to help support children and adolescents at all levels of ability.

And hopefully along the way it should dispel a few myths - that TEACCH methods are only for "low-functioning" children, that they're incompatible with inclusion, and so on.

The book never claims to have "The Answer" for dealing with autism; it simply presents a toolbox of low-key, easy-to-implement strategies which can help support the learning of almost any student on the autistic spectrum.