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ASD Teaching Strategies Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Whole class strategies - ✔✔- routines and schedules
- transition tools
- checklists, guides, rules
- organization support
- choices
- nonverbal supports and cues
- stay-put box
Routines and schedules - ✔✔- provide predictability for students w ASD (relieves anxiety by providing
order and showing what comes next)
- written schedules, picture calendars, daily planners
- observable benefits for ALL students w/in classroom, not just ASD
Transition tools - ✔✔- students w ASD often have difficult moving from one env to another or one
activity to the next: causes stress and feelings of disorientation
- can provide cues and supports to signal transition
Transition tools: examples of cues and supports to signal transitions - ✔✔- playing a transition song
- providing verbal reminders (5 min warning)
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- using a timer showing how much time left in activity
- incorporating transitional activity
- providing peer buddy to help during transition time
- create transition rituals (ending day by writing in journal)
- transitional items that student can carry (toy, object, pic) that they carry from one place to the next
Checklists, guides, and rules - ✔✔- students w ASD find comfort in knowing procedures, steps and
expectations (help student feel organized and inc probability of successful completion of task/assgnmt)
- written information is concrete and does not fade away
Checklists, guides, and rules: examples - ✔✔- checklists ("mini-schedule"): provide steps for completing
task (i.e. finishing long asgnmt, packing backpack, getting reading for field trip)
- guides (similar to social story): how to have fun at the prom, surviving the first day of school
- written rules: provide black and white expectation of behavior (i.e. riding bus safely, using/sharing
playgroup equipment)
Organization support - ✔✔- some students w ASD can ver VERY organized while others really struggle
and need help
- help student w time management and organization of work space
- but also build independence by learning new skills/ strategies for organization
Organization support: example - ✔✔- help student clean out hw folder then develop new system to keep
it organized
Choices - ✔✔- "every day and throughout the year, all students should be given choices bat the type of
work they do, their activities and the ways in which they spend their time"
Author. Emily Charlene, ©2025 All Rights Reserved.
ASD Teaching Strategies Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Whole class strategies - ✔✔- routines and schedules
- transition tools
- checklists, guides, rules
- organization support
- choices
- nonverbal supports and cues
- stay-put box
Routines and schedules - ✔✔- provide predictability for students w ASD (relieves anxiety by providing
order and showing what comes next)
- written schedules, picture calendars, daily planners
- observable benefits for ALL students w/in classroom, not just ASD
Transition tools - ✔✔- students w ASD often have difficult moving from one env to another or one
activity to the next: causes stress and feelings of disorientation
- can provide cues and supports to signal transition
Transition tools: examples of cues and supports to signal transitions - ✔✔- playing a transition song
- providing verbal reminders (5 min warning)
Author. Emily Charlene, ©2025 All Rights Reserved.
, 2|Page
- using a timer showing how much time left in activity
- incorporating transitional activity
- providing peer buddy to help during transition time
- create transition rituals (ending day by writing in journal)
- transitional items that student can carry (toy, object, pic) that they carry from one place to the next
Checklists, guides, and rules - ✔✔- students w ASD find comfort in knowing procedures, steps and
expectations (help student feel organized and inc probability of successful completion of task/assgnmt)
- written information is concrete and does not fade away
Checklists, guides, and rules: examples - ✔✔- checklists ("mini-schedule"): provide steps for completing
task (i.e. finishing long asgnmt, packing backpack, getting reading for field trip)
- guides (similar to social story): how to have fun at the prom, surviving the first day of school
- written rules: provide black and white expectation of behavior (i.e. riding bus safely, using/sharing
playgroup equipment)
Organization support - ✔✔- some students w ASD can ver VERY organized while others really struggle
and need help
- help student w time management and organization of work space
- but also build independence by learning new skills/ strategies for organization
Organization support: example - ✔✔- help student clean out hw folder then develop new system to keep
it organized
Choices - ✔✔- "every day and throughout the year, all students should be given choices bat the type of
work they do, their activities and the ways in which they spend their time"
Author. Emily Charlene, ©2025 All Rights Reserved.
