Autism Paper 2: Lesson Planning for Children with Autism: Designing Learning Objectives through Systemizing, Aug/2010
| Author(s) | Noel Chia Kok Hwee |
| ISBN10 | 9810864973 |
| ISBN13 | 9789810864972 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 48 |
| Year Publish | 2010 August |
$8.00
Synopsis
AUTISM: Practical Tips on Teaching Children with Mild/Moderate Autism in Mainstream Schools
This is a series of ten papers written by three experienced special education professionals who have worked directly with individuals with autistic learning and behavioural difficulties. Presented in an easy readable style, the authors have provided essential know what, know why and know how when teaching children with mild/moderate autism in mainstream schools.
Beginning with defining autism, identifying and profiling autistic learning and behavioural difficulties through planning lessons, conducting learning/behavioural support activities, counselling, intervening through video games/drawings/peer support, parental involvement to teaching mathematical concepts, operations and applications, the authors hope to share with their readers the practical tips on how they can go about teaching these exceptional children.
Paper 2: Lesson Planning for Children with Autism: Designing Learning Objectives through Systemising
Highlights: Planning a practical lesson for teaching children with autistic learning and behavioural difficulties with the main focus on designing learning objectives through systemizing. Readers are introduced to the six main systems exhibited by children with autism and how to tap on them to prepare a lesson.
Dr Chia has published numerous papers in both local and overseas refereed and non-refereed academic journals and articles in professional magazines and periodicals for general readership as well as authored, co-authored and edited a series of monographs and books. In addition, he is also one of the two coordinating editors for the Journal of Reading & Literacy the flagship publication of the Society for Reading & Literacy, Singapore, as well as the Journal of the Reading Specialist the official publication of the Reading Specialists' Association (Singapore).
Dr Chia, a former Japan Air Line scholar (Asian Studies) at the Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, holds two fellowships one in literacy awarded by the College of Preceptors, UK, and the other in dyslexia awarded by the College of Teachers, UK. Recently, he has been awarded the Lee Kong Chian Research Fellowship by the National Library Board, Singapore, to study the growth of imagination in Singapore children's literature in English: 1965-2005. Dr Chia is an alumnus of three Australian universities Edith Cowan University, the University of Southern Queensland and the University of Western Australia. He is married with a daughter.
