The Conversation Box: Conversation training tool for children with high functioning autism and Asperger's

cards for conversation training for Asperger's and high functioning autism

Below are downloads and instructions for creating these conversation cards. They provide a good activity to help kids on the autism spectrum to practice different functions of conversation. Please scroll down to have a look at the various components.

Children on the autism spectrum usually don’t easily grasp the many functions of conversation. Here is a [...]

Visual strategies for autism social skills training, Part 1, Introduction

Temple Grandin, who has autism, has raised our awareness of how many with autism benefit from visual learning strategies

This is the first of several postings on the topic of using visual-based social skills training methods for children on the autism spectrum to help raise awareness of social cause and effect.

It has been observed that many individuals on the autism spectrum tend to have a style of learning that is predominately visual.  Temple Grandin, in [...]

The Green Zone: Common Ground Conversation Training method for kids on the autism spectrum

Children with Asperger's and other autism spectrum disorders have a great deal of difficulty finding "common ground" in conversation. The images, worksheets and methods provided in this blog provide an introduction to an engaging, visual-based set of methods called The Green Zone.

Children with Asperger’s and other autism spectrum disorders have a great deal of difficulty finding “common ground” in conversation. The images, worksheets and methods provided in this blog provide an introduction to an engaging, visual-based set of methods called The Green Zone.     Please see all the downloadable visuals and worksheets at the bottom of [...]