Use Visual Strategies Blog

• Teaching strategies for all students

  7/28/2009 10:50:21 PM

  Historically, autism was considered a “low incidence” disorder. That is not true any more.  In spite of the increase in this population, many educators are not specifically trained to educate these students. In fact, many professionals report that servicing this population is “less preferred” than working with other groups of students.  That's the result of lack knowledge and experience with autism. Here's the challenge. Educators frequently find that the strategies and techniques that have worked for other students do not work well for students with ASD. But as we learn more, what becomes evident is that the teaching and communication strategies that work for students with autism can be wonderfully effective for other students, too, …particularly those who experience some degree of communication or learning challenge. Learning how students with autism learn and understand better helps us become more effective teachers for all students.

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  Linda Hodgdon

• Visual Strategies Blog

  5/26/2009 10:56:24 PM

  Welcome to the Visual Strategies BLOG.  There is always more to talk about, isn't there?  Well, here is a place to share some of those random thoughts and experiences that I have as I talk to educators and parents and all those who have a heart for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders and lots of other students with learning and communication challenges.

  If you have known me for a while you will see that this website is new and different.  It was time to refresh and regroup and reorganize to meet the new needs that keep emerging.  The purpose of this site is to share important information about improving communication for those students with communication challenges.   I am trying to take advantage of new technology and state-the-art internet strategies to meet the ever changing ways that people communicate.

  That is sort of the same goal that we have when working with our students.  When we find something that works, we keep using it.  But there comes a time when we need to revise, upgrade, brainstorm and move ahead.

  It's all about looking at the present and then lifting our eyes to look toward the future.  We need to both.

  Please be sure to look around at this new site.  There are lots of changes and more are coming.

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  Linda Hodgdon