Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Practical Resource Book (Includes CD-ROM)

Children on the autism spectrum are often highly visual learners, making colour a powerful and motivating learning tool.

This book explains how colour coding helps young people with autism to generalise lessons already learnt. For example, assigning the colour aqua to all personal care activities or the colour purple to timetabling and transitions establishes clear, visual categories. This allows children to draw on learnt experiences, which creates a sense of order, reduces anxiety, and can aid communication, understanding emotions, organisation, coping with change and diversifying diet. A wealth of tried-and-tested printable resources to enable the practical application of colour coding in the classroom and at home are included on a CD-ROM.

With colourful illustrations and resources, Colour Coding for Learners with Autism is an effective, must-have teaching tool for anyone involved in the education of young people with autism.

Table of Contents

Preface.

1. True Colours.
2. Colour coded symbols.
3. Visual Timetable.
4. Time Trackers.
5. Colour Categories.
6. Social and Emotional Colours.
7. Sporting Colours.
8. Colour Codes in Lessons.
9. Colours to Encourage Creativity.
10. Defining Space through Colour.
11. Colour Coded Planning and Classroom Management.
12. Traffic Lights.
13. Dealing with 'Different' Days.
14. Perception.
15. Coloured Lightbulbs, Overlays and Lenses. (Scotopic Sensitivity and Irlen Syndrome).
16. Synesthesia and Autism (How many learners with autism have Synesthesia?)
17. Colouring a Brighter Future. Final Thoughts and Infinite Possibilities.

List of Resources on the CD.