http://autism.healingthresholds.com/therapy/feed

This blog post is probably one of the most interesting links I have come across. It describes everything to the gluten-free diet to PECS. The topic that caught my attention was the effectiveness of visual schedules. A visual schedule is described as being a set of pictures or icons that communicates a series of steps that incorporates and displays the daily events in a student’s life. This particular schedule is set up for a student with Autism who has a difficult time with transitioning. It communicates the clear expectations of the day and it helps then predict and plan the numerous transitions that they may encounter throughout their day.

These daily schedules are created on the computer and a parent, educator, or student can select pictures from the Internet or specific computer software program designed to create a computer program.

After many hours of reviewing a plethora of sites, I determined to keep it simple and focus on a topic that was relevant to my practices and teachings. I had subscribed to many different topics on google reader and by narrowing down my search it made it much easier to select a topic. My brain is still recovering from RSS overload and now that I think I have worked out all the kinks, I feel I will not be so intimidated to research new topics of interest.