Center for Autism Resources for Educators
 

Technologies used to complete elements of the projects: pencil and paper, PowerPoint, Word, Adobe Acrobat Professional, Comic Life, Make Beliefs Comix (free/online), Toon Doo (free/online), Kidspiration, PhotoShop, and clip art.

Products are this site are copyright protected and were designed and developed by students in multiple sections and semesters of graduate courses at the University of Mary Washington:

• Emerging and Assistive Technologies
• Survey of Special Education: Characteristics and Legal Issues
• Special Topics in Instructional Design and Technology
• Visual Literacy in the Digital Age
   

Adventures with Alar: Cast of Characters

Alar is a young eagle who will join you on many journeys.

Skyler is Alar's younger cousin.

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Go Figures

Can you "figure out the answer" to these? Each booklet contain 10 single page problems (various subjects) illustrated in cartoon style.

Single Page Examples	Booklets (10 pages)	Templates
Sharing Fishy Business Sneeze	Rhea Boudaoud Shannon Moore Krinstine Norbutt Sylvia Henderson Patty McElhatten Kathleen Walsh	book (PowerPoint) Go Figure Stories (PowerPoint)

Read about Alar our site's guide. See how he was created.

Glossary of Instructional Strategies

Graphic Novel

This assignment was a component of a course that explored emerging and assistive technologies in education. Students investigated and analyzed innovative educational technologies to determine their educational value. The skills needed for effective planning and leadership to integrate and evaluate these emerging technologies were developed as a result. Students also examined assistive technology and its application within instructional programs that assist those with disabilities. Students learned about specific assistive technology applications and became familiar with federal legislation and public policy for accommodating those with special needs.  

Each student wrote a chapter as part of a graphic novel project.  Each student researched a disability and created a character that reflected that disability in a social setting. As a group they decided to utilize a playground setting and individually they researched a specific disability for their character. The character had to reflect the disability throughout their chapter. In order to assist classmates with integrating the character s they invented, each student designed a “characteristics statistical card” (similar to a baseball stats card) which highlighted distinctiveness of their character and included a picture. Each character had to interact with one or more characters created by classmates. Each student worked on a storyboard and consulted with the developers of other characters so that the story line was “true” to character. As a group they decided to have a “moderator” who added to the flow from chapter to chapter and also acted as a coach in each chapter. Additional information is provided in the Introduction and Afterword sections.

View Online
(115 pages)

Adobe Reader Required (free)

Scripts
(single PPT slide)

Resources
Many of these resources are on the page about Camp Soaring Eagle in presentation format links to individual examples. All works protected under Creative commons

Social Toons
(single page)

Creating Social Scenarios

You Can Make a Social Scenario, Book 2

Crabby's Misadventure - a multimedia story about getting home. In a story that begins with simple math problems, the misadventures of Crabby soon draw the reader into a world of the meaning of friendship.

Indoor Recess - 10 pages

Autism Related Resources - 22 page booklet with hyperlinks to additional resources

Using Community-Based Instruction to Teach Functional Life Skills to Students with Intellectual Disabilities