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 | About ASD | I Have Autism Brochure | The brochure is written in a child-friendly language and includes an explanation of strengths and ways to overcome and/or cope with challenges. This download is a 2-page PDF. | About Autism, Informational Resources, Peer, School, Home, Provider |
 | Academia | When Do I Need to Tip? | An important life skill is knowing when it is appropriate to tip someone. Individuals with ASD can struggle knowing how to handle these more complex social situations. This sorting activity helps individuals discriminate between which locations you should and should not leave a tip after dining out. This download is a 3-page PDF. | Functional Skills, Activity Templates, School, Home |
 | Independent Living Essentials | How to Set Up an Alarm Clock | An important step toward independence is being able to get yourself up and ready in the morning. Learning how to set an alarm clock is one of the skills needed to reach independence. Also alarm clocks may vary in their buttons and settings. Although alarm clocks may vary in their buttons and settings, this example provides an illustration of how to teach and then support independence in an individual setting their alarm clock to ensure they are awake to get ready for school, activities, or a job. This download is a 3-page PDF. | Job Success, Activity Templates, Indivdiuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Independent Living Essentials | What is the Dress Code? | Now that you have a job, you need to be sure that you understand the dress code. The term "dress code" refers to clothing an employee needs to wear while at work. If you don't already know the dress code, you may find out on your first day of work when you get an employee manual. In the employee manual, look for the heading "Dress Code." This will be where it will say what to wear and what not to wear. If you don't get an employee manual, or it doesn't state the dress code, ask your supervisor or boss. This document helps individuals with ASD evaluate their clothing choices when going to work. It includes a list of common considerations, a list of things to check before leaving the house, and a discrimination task to sort what fits into a dress code. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Job Success, Activity Templates, Indivdiuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Independent Living Essentials | How Early Should I Leave For Work? | Once you accept a job, people will count on you to be responsible. Part of being responsible means getting to work on time. Arriving to work late will not be acceptable and may result in getting fired. To avoid getting to work late, you need to determine what time you need to leave your house or apartment. You can either have your parents, grandparents, siblings, or friends help you with this, or you can look online at Google Maps or use Google Map app on your phone. This document contains instructions for calculating what time an individual should leave home in order to get to work on time, using Google Maps. Includes step-by-step instructions for using google maps to find a route, and a template script for calling a supervisor in the event of tardiness. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Job Success, Activity Templates, Indivdiuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Kids Corner | Cornhole (Bean Bag Toss) Game | Use this template to help individuals with ASD or related disorders play a game of cornhole (otherwise known as bean bag toss). The template includes cards for a tear-off mini-schedule that explains how to play the game. This download is a PDF. | Games, Activity Templates, School, Home |
 | Kids Corner | How to Play Uno | Use this template to help individuals with ASD or related disorders play a game of Uno. This template provides multiple levels of support based on need-level. This includes mini-schedules featuring check-off, numbered list, pull-off with pictures, and more. This download is a 9-page PDF. | Games, Activity Templates, School, Home |
 | Life with ASD | Make a Parfait | A great snack or breakfast is a strawberry parfait! Parfaits are delicious, healthy, and helpful as an on-the-go snack when we have a busy lifestyle. Here you will find schedules for making a parfait using strawberry yogurt, vanilla yogurt, strawberries, and cheerios. Enjoy! This is an activity template designed to guide individuals with ASD as they make a parfait snack. Includes checklist, pull-off, and numbered mini-schedules with text and pictures. This download is a 4-page PDF. | Food, Activity Templates, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Make a Grilled Cheese Sandwich | A grilled cheese sandwich can be a tasty snack or even a meal. You can use a variety of cheese on any sort of bread. Choose the sorts that you like! Grilled cheese sandwiches are often served with soup. This is an activity template designed to guide individuals with ASD as they cook a grilled cheese sandwich. A checklist mini-schedule with text and images is included. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Food, Activity Templates, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Make an English Muffin Pizza | An English muffin pizza can be a tasty snack or even a meal. You can use a variety of cheese and replace pepperoni with ham. Choose the sorts that you like! This is an activity template designed to guide individuals with ASD as they cook an english muffin pizza in a microwave. A checklist mini-schedule with text and images is included. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Food, Activity Templates, Members Only, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Preparing for an Interview (Ending My Interview) | At the end of an interview it is important to show you appreciate the time they took to interview you. Employers want to know that you are excited to work for them. This is a guiding document to help individuals with ASD with understanding the process of finishing up an interview with a potential employer. This download is a 1-page PDF. | Job Success, Activity Templates, Indivdiuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Planning Your Evening | Doing homework in the evening sometimes becomes frustrating. You spend all day at school or going to college classes and all you want to do in the evening is relax. However, good grades are important to being successful. There are some things you can do to make doing your homework more manageable in the evenings. Some people like doing homework right when they get home from school or class, others like to do it after dinner and some break it into chunks and do a little at a time. Unfortunately, some students put off their homework until the last minute because they want to do other things. Often, they end up not getting around to doing their homework and therefore get a zero on the assignment. It's helpful to have a plan for your evening to make sure you get everything done. This is a document meant to help individuals with ASD work on time management skills. Includes directions and a template to write down a schedule. This download is a 3-page PDF. | Executive Functioning, Activity Templates, Members Only, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Preparing for an Interview (Asking Questions) | During interviews, it can be difficult to know what questions to ask. The interviewer asks you questions, but sometimes you have questions you want answered, too. It's usually best to wait until the end of the interview to ask these questions. Often, the interviewer will ask if you have any questions; that is the time you ask any questions about the business or position. This is a guiding document to help individuals with ASD plan some questions to ask during an interview. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Job Success, Activity Templates, Members Only, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Wiping Tables and Chairs | Helping out with chores around the house is helpful in learning responsibility, using time management, and earning rewards. This is a guiding document to help individuals with ASD as they work through cleaning tables and chairs. Includes cards with text and images for use with a pull-off mini-schedule. This download is a 3-page PDF. | Chores, Job Success, Activity Templates, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | What to Do For Lunch | If you work during the day and your hours overlap lunch time (typically around 11:00am 1:00pm), you will most likely have a lunch break. Different work environments have different options for lunch, so it's important to figure out what will work best at your job. On your first day of work, the best option would be to pack and bring your lunch in a lunchbox. You can then see what your co-workers do for their lunch when you're there or you can just ask one of them. This is a guiding document to help individuals with ASD as they plan their lunchtime. Includes considerations and checklists for choosing options. This download is a 1-page PDF. | Food, Activity Templates, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Ordering a Pizza Using a Script | It's easy to forget what to say when talking on the phone to someone. To make it easier, you can fill out a script ahead of time to help prepare what you need to say. Then, when you call, all you have to do is follow your script! Most pizza places will ask the same thing, but it may be in a different order or worded differently. You can say, "one moment please," if you need time to find your response. Also, if you live with someone, you can ask them for help! This is an activity template designed to guide individuals with ASD as they place a pizza delivery order over the phone by allowing them to fill in the blanks in a pre-written script. This download is a 3-page PDF. | Food, Activity Templates, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Preparing for an Interview | Most interviews consist of being asked a few basic questions. You can prepare yourself by writing out your answers and reviewing them before the interview. A lot of people get nervous during an interview, so it helps if you've already practiced what you are going to say. This is a guiding document to help individuals with ASD with plan out answers to common interview questions. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Job Success, Activity Templates, Indivdiuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Organizing Your Wallet | Most people start carrying a wallet in middle school or high school. What you put inside your wallet is important and it may even change as you get older. Not every person will have the same items in their wallet, but there a few things that are a must. Here are some items that everyone should carry in their wallet: This is a document meant to help individuals with ASD determine what to keep in their wallet and in what order, so they can easily find important items. Includes instructions and a diagram with suggestions for ID card placement. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Functional Skills, Activity Templates, Members Only, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Make Scrambled Eggs | Scrambled eggs can be a filling breakfast and quick and easy dinner. You can make them with just eggs and milk, or you can add other things, like cheese, vegetables, or bacon. This is an activity template designed to guide individuals with ASD as they make scrambled eggs in a frying pan. A check-list mini-schedule with text and images is included. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Food, Activity Templates, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Conversation Helpers | Sometimes, we may see people that we don't regularly see throughout the year. Having to talk to unfamiliar people can be very tough for individuals with ASD. Practicing conversations and having some visuals to support through the conversation can help ease some of the anxiety. Here you can find some scripts for typical conversations that may occur. Practice these ahead of meeting or talking to new or unfamiliar people to help foster some good conversations! This is a document meant to help individuals with ASD work on their conversation skills. Includes examples of common small-talk with text and pictures. This download is a 4-page PDF. | Social Skills, Activity Templates, Indivdiuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Organize Your Day | Staying organized is difficult for many students. Papers get lost, books go missing, and you forget to do homework or forget to get a paper signed by your parents all because you aren't organized. It's also hard to carry everything you need in your backpack because it can get so heavy. This means you have to go to your locker multiple times throughout the day to get your new books and put the books you've already used back into your locker. All of this can become confusing. Luckily, there are systems you can use to get organized and to remember what materials you need for each class. This is a document meant to help individuals with ASD work on time management skills throughout the day. Includes directions and a template to write down a schedule. This download is a 3-page PDF. | Functional Skills, Activity Templates, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Make Toast | Toasts can be a great breakfast, lunch, or snack. Serve them with butter, jam, cheese, or other product of your choice. This is an activity template designed to guide individuals with ASD as they make toast using an upright toaster. A mini-schedule with text and images is included. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Food, Activity Templates, Members Only, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Learn Your Locker Combination | Using a lock isn't the easiest! It can be very confusing with the different directions and the amount of times you're required to turn the knob. One way some students have found it helpful to learn how to use their lock is by breaking it down into steps. These steps are then written down on a small piece of paper and kept in a wallet, binder, folder, etc. This is a document meant to help individuals with ASD break down a way to memorize their locker combination and how to open it. Includes a template based on a traditional number padlock with spaces to enter in an individuals locker combination. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Functional Skills, Activity Templates, Members Only, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Make Waffles | Waffles can be a great sweet or savory breakfast, lunch, or snack. Serve it with Maple syrup, butter, confectionery sugar, or meat of your choice. This is an activity template designed to guide individuals with ASD as they cook waffles in a waffle iron. A checklist mini-schedule with text and images is included. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Food, Activity Templates, Members Only, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Make a Smoothie | When spring and summer are here and the weather is warm, cool snacks or drinks always are good! Making a smoothie is an easy and fun way to cool off and easy to make at home. There are lots of places you can go to buy a smoothie, but these are more expensive than what you would spend to just make them. This is an activity template designed to guide individuals with ASD as they make a smoothie treat using a blender. A check-list mini-schedule with text and images is included. This download is a 2-page PDF. | Food, Activity Templates, Members Only, Individuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | Life with ASD | Write a Resume | Writing a resume can be one of the most important aspects of getting a job. The resume is what tells employers about you so they know whether they want to interview you or not. There are certain things that are typical to have on a resume so you want to be sure that you include these. This is a guiding document to help individuals with ASD with preparing their resume. This download is a 4-page PDF. | Job Success, Activity Templates, Indivdiuals with ASD, School, Home, Provider |
 | School and Home | Reinforcer Checklist - Transition Age | Use this form to identify a child's preferences to help understand what items or privileges will serve as the best motivators in completing tasks. Useful for teachers as well as parents to take note of activities a child enjoys very much and others they dislike very much. This download is a 2-page PDF. | School, Forms, Personnel Training |