Autism Therapeutic & Academic Children’s Program
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Autism Therapeutic & Academic Children’s Program
My autism therapeutic and academic children’s program was originally created and written to help my own son who was diagnosed with highly moderate to severe autism at the tender age of two and remained nonverbal until the age of six.
Autism Healed for Life, my recently published book, shares the moving chronicle of our daily experiences as we struggled to conquer and defeat his nearly forty autism symptoms, characteristics, and behaviors. After a fourteen-year journey my son is completely healed from autism with accurate speech pronunciation. Anyone who meets my son would never suspect he endured such a difficult childhood with autism. His story is encouraging and inspirational offering hope to all!
My autism children’s program was the initial building blocks that began my son’s advanced receptive and expressive language skills for effective communication as a nonverbal child and offered simple solutions to his many therapeutic and academic needs.
My autism program focuses on developing, building, and strengthening necessary skills to attain proper child development both therapeutically and academically for autistic children.
I’ve created a “hands-on experience” supplies kit with 50+ therapeutic and educational items that correlate directly with the 150+ skills taught throughout the entire autism program for proven successful learning, progression, and mastery! The supplies kit has a wide variety of brightly colored, fun, therapeutic, and educational items which creates an atmosphere of excitement, motivation, and interest for every child!
“Hands-on” experiences offer mastery level learning! Young children have minds like sponges, so learning with items they can touch in front of them becomes part of their long-term memory compared to simply looking at a computer screen and clicking a mouse. Children will attain developmental skills most effectively and at a faster pace having a one-on-one live interaction!
As an elementary teacher of many years, I knew the necessary skills my son needed to achieve proper child development, so I began designing and creating the autism program myself. Being my son was so young, I knew he would advance and soar with hands-on experiences being a visual learner and thinker. Choosing colorful, fun, and exciting educational items kept his attention and motivated him to participate and learn!
My autism program was very successful for my son! He’s been an honor roll student throughout his years of school since pre-kindergarten through high school, and has conquered and defeated every autism symptom, characteristic, and behavior he once endured.
He was completely nonverbal until almost seven years old, so it was crucial we would be able to effectively communicate with one another easily on a day-to-day basis. I began teaching him alphabet letters and phonics using picture cards when he was three years old, and at five years old he could fingerspell words to me which significantly enhanced our level of communicating on a day-to-day basis. His receptive and expressive language skills were highly advanced because of our time together learning the alphabet, repetition of picture cards, and sight word recognition.
My program offers therapeutic and academic skill development with a wide variety of opportunities for reinforcement to secure learning and advancement emotionally, socially, physically, therapeutically, and academically.
My expertise in educating young children will reveal many additional tips for adults to understand how a child can take pleasure in their learning environment; creating an effective environment for learning, strategies for successful learning, rewarding a child with positive reinforcement, and suggestions for handling possible behavioral difficulties. These added bonuses are taken from an elementary teacher who has taught both regular and special education students including autistic students.
The therapeutic content is focused on phonics and language vocabulary building, ability to read, beginner handwriting and tracing skills, sensory integration therapy, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, play skills, art skills, music skills, social skills, and self-care skills. The therapeutic section of the program can be introduced to the child in any order with exception to the phonics and language vocabulary building lessons which are recommended to learn in consecutive lesson number order.
Most autistic children struggle with sensory integration dysfunction. Reading the detailed information provided about the tactile, vestibular, and proprioceptive systems of the body and simplified glossary in the sensory integration chapter will easily allow readers to clearly understand the meaning of these medical terms. Understanding the sensory needs of an autistic child is critical to increase progression and achieve development of all skills at a much faster pace.
The academic content is focused on basic math numbers one through twenty and community awareness. The math lessons are introduced in consecutive order like the phonics and language vocabulary building section of the program.
All activity lessons throughout the autism therapeutic and academic children’s program will be “user-friendly” for adults and children. Lessons will include the subject content, the lesson number, skills being developed and strengthened, materials needed which come from the therapeutic and academic supplies kit (TASK), activities during the lesson, the specific skill goals, and positive reinforcement tips to keep the child engaged, motivated, and excited about learning!
There is no time table to complete the children’s autism program. Each individual activity lesson will be a creative fun learning environment while the child achieves higher developmental skills and advances therapeutically and academically.
A child’s confidence and self-esteem will soar as he/she learns new concepts, while developing, building, and strengthening his/her skills. Every child will gain a sense of tremendous achievement!
Angela’s Autism Therapeutic & Academic Children’s Program offers an endless amount of creative and fun activities, opportunities, and reinforcement for any child with autism struggling with skill difficulties and deficits.
The Therapeutic and Academic Supplies Kit (TASK) can be ordered on my website, www.autismhealedforlife.com.
10% of every therapeutic and academic supplies kit purchased on my website, www.autismhealedforlife.com, will be donated to charity and ministry organizations. Thank you for contributing to worthy causes and helping to make a difference that will greatly benefit organizations globally!
My website will have additional and updated information for you as well.
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Autism Therapeutic & Academic Children’s Program was originally created, written, and used for her own son who was diagnosed with highly moderate to severe autism at the tender age of two and remained nonverbal until the age of six.
Her autism children’s program was the initial building block that began her son’s advanced receptive and expressive language skills for effective communication as a nonverbal child and offered simple solutions to his many therapeutic and academic needs.
This autism program focuses on developing, building, and strengthening necessary skills to attain proper child development both therapeutically and academically for autistic children.
Angela created a “hands-on experience” supplies kit with over fifty different therapeutic and educational items that correlate directly with the 150-plus skills taught throughout the entire autism program for proven successful learning, progression, and mastery!
Therapeutic and academic skills development will increase from a wide variety of opportunities for reinforcement to secure learning and advancement emotionally, socially, physically, therapeutically, and academically.
The therapeutic content of the autism program focuses on phonics and language-vocabulary building, basic reading skills, beginner handwriting and tracing skills, sensory integration, gross motor skills, fine motor skills, play skills, art skills, music skills, social skills, and self-care development skills. The academic content focuses on basic math numbers one through twenty and on community awareness.
Angela’s Autism Therapeutic & Academic Children’s Program offers creative and fun activities for any child with autism struggling with skill difficulties and deficits.
Her son is now healed of autism for life!
About the Author
Angela Gachassin, M.Ed. is a passionate autism advocate, and intervention consultant. She has a Master’s Degree from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette focused in Elementary Education, Special Education, and Guidance & Counseling. She is the author of Autism Healed for Life, Public Speaker, and Mother of a Son who is Healed from Severe Autism.