Video Links

Emergency Special Needs Homeschooling Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqUS7NbF20h_SQuAcgyeZjDjFqYFXW8dm

Shared reading using AAC:

PODD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv4j_XN9vG4&feature=emb_logo

Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdvyeN8xTBM

Low tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU9UP0vwEVM

Proloquo2Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le1wVMtdS8c&feature=emb_logo

Further reading:

Jane Farrall: http://www.janefarrall.com/shared-reading-focus-on-interaction/

Tar Heel Shared Reader: https://www.sharedreader.org/ and https://shared.tarheelreader.org/

Downloadable Resources:

Communication Boards:

Teachers Pay Teachers Free AAC Communication Board for Distance Learning: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Home-Based-AAC-Communication-Board-wBoardmaker-Symbols-DISTANCE-LEARNING-5353761

Teachers Pay Teachers Free Reading Communication Board: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Book-Reading-Communication-Board-4361785

Project Core Free Core Vocabulary Communication Board:

More options from Project Core: http://www.project-core.com/36-location/

music movement podcast audiobook art

Today’s Activity

We will be working on all things coronavirus this week, such as washing hands and understanding social distancing. Make sure to explain that school is at home now and encourage them to move, jump, dance, clap, and sing along.

Sick Simon

If you’ve got the book at home, go grab it. If you don’t that’s okay. We’ve got you covered. Watch the videos below for some wonderful interactive reading.

10-page printable coloring book about germs from Crystal & Co.: https://crystalandcomp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/color-pages-for-kids-sick-day-and-germs.pdf

Growing germs science experiment from Playdough to Plato: https://www.playdoughtoplato.com/kids-science-growing-germs/

Germ art project from The OT Toolbox: https://www.theottoolbox.com/germ-craft-to-teach-kids-how-germs-are/

Free CoronaVirus Social Story from the Autism Educator: https://theautismeducator.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Corona-Virus-Free-Printable-Updated-2-The-Autism-Educator-1-1.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1GOMoxKWheoKg_DGFVxoAQnZ85CLDjPMYYFT988L3zPqvSqtc4o85VNzE

Free CoronaVirus Social Story from Teachers Pay Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Coronavirus-Social-Story-5330900

and another: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Coronavirus-COVID-19-Social-Story-5319239

Free podcast for kids about corona virus: https://www.vpr.org/post/explaining-coronavirus-kids-and-science-soap#stream/0

BrainPOP free coronavirus video explainer: https://www.brainpop.com/health/diseasesinjuriesandconditions/coronavirus/

Free printable coronavirus poster from the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities: https://scdd.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2020/03/2020-3-13-Eng-COVID-19.pdf

Free printable coronavirus explainer in plain language by and for people with disabilities: https://scdd.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/2020/03/Green-Mountain-SA-Info-By-and-For-People-with-Disabilities.pdf