Episodes
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Discuss differences during diverse holiday celebrations.
✅ Tips for neurodiverse children during stressful holiday events.
✅ Newsletter includes 14 tips for an inclusive holiday season.
✅ Activities to understand individuality, like the "different fish" display.
✅ Use cooking to teach and celebrate cultural diversity.
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Published 11/20/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Use Timers: Implement timers to manage time and encourage students to observe clocks
✅ Visuals and Signing: Utilize visual aids and signing for enhanced communication.
✅ Pre-warning for Changes: Always inform students beforehand about upcoming changes.
✅ Structured Scheduling: Develop a schedule that includes vital...
Published 11/12/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Tips for transitions: preschool to secondary and more.
✅ Solutions for absent on-site school visits.
✅ Key strategies for teachers, assistants, families.
✅ Sensory challenges in new 2024 classroom settings.
✅ "I’m Going to School": Visual prep for new students.
✅ Overcome social challenges with Anna Tullemans & Rhonda...
Published 11/06/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Collaborate on a detailed transition plan with all stakeholders.
✅ Utilize cheat sheets for essential child-specific information.
✅ Foster self-advocacy skills in the child.
✅ Be mindful of sensory sensitivities.
✅ Provide time warnings before activity shifts.
✅ Limit key information to a single, concise document.
✅ Use...
Published 10/30/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Transitions can induce anxiety in children with autism.
✅ Change may involve teacher, room, or student cohort shifts.
✅ Autism makes any transition, big or small, stressful.
✅ New classroom settings likened to "foreign countries" for autistic kids.
✅ Language and behavioral cues differ between old and new settings.
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Published 10/23/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Learning and emotional coping in children.
✅ Yearly trends in emotional regulation and behaviour.
✅ Age and behaviour, focusing on seven-year-olds.
✅ Emotional status and anxious tendencies in children.
✅ Diverse experiences and behaviours in kids.
✅ Emotional and academic aspects in a school setting.
✅ Executive...
Published 10/16/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Activities and exercises for self-awareness and self-control
✅ The importance of a consistent program in teaching emotional regulation
✅ Whole class activities on emotional regulation
✅ How to individualise activities for unique children
✅ How to use visuals
✅ Importance of a positive environment
✅ The Red Beast Picture...
Published 10/09/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Guest Author Lauren Bruckner shares top tips for empowering children through mindfulness autism spectrum by using her picture book to help children 4+ years and up understand and regulate their emotions
✅ Create a classroom display using the templates provided
✅ Teach children to “zap” feelings away using their “Boss of...
Published 10/02/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Introduction to AI Assistants: Brief overview of ChatGPT and other AI tools, explaining their functionality and operation.
✅ AI-Driven Accommodations: Discussion on how AI can create accommodations, especially for executive functioning challenges, and other potential accommodations AI can generate.
✅ Lesson Adaptation:...
Published 09/18/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ When to Start Transition
✅ How Long should you do Transition
✅ Must Do for successful Transition
✅ Ideal to Do as part of Planning
✅ Extra Ideas to support Transition
✅ What do to if Transition wasn’t Successful
✅ Plus information on Vaping, Catching the Bus and more
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Published 09/11/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Understand Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA): It’s a unique autism type that requires a different approach.
✅ The differences between PDA and ODD.
✅ PDA is often misunderstood – these children want to do well but struggle with demands.
✅ Build relationships through sharing experiences and following their interests. No...
Published 09/04/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ How to help students who don’t like making mistakes
✅ How to help students who don’t like to lose a game
✅ How to ensure you are not “helping” too much when supporting a student
✅ How to help an absconder?
✅ How to help students who “shutdown”
✅ How to accommodate a student who is stamping his feet as a stim?
✅ How to...
Published 08/28/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Traditional vs Special Needs Strategies
✅ Golden Rules of Autism Support
✅ Alternative Approaches
✅ Theory of Mind Consideration
✅ Positive Alternatives to Consequences
✅ Structured Guidance for Various Challenges
✅ Holistic Focus on Teaching Replacement Behaviors
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Published 08/21/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ What Role do Sensory Solutions have in De-escalating Behaviour & Increasing Participation?
✅ Benefits of a Simple Sensory Programme in your Classroom
✅ What is SPD?
✅ How to Identify Students who could have SPD
✅ Checklist to Identify Underlying Sensory Causes of Behaviour
✅ The MOST Overlooked Sensory Tools & How...
Published 08/15/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ An Inspirational Story: Strategies Behind Temple Grandin’s Amazing Successful Life
✅ The 9 Compelling Reasons To Use Visuals to Communicate
✅ How to Use Visuals to Increase Engagement and Participation
✅ Strategies to Use Special Interest to Motivate and Engage Students
✅ Sue Larkey’s #1 Essential Tip to Keep A Student On...
Published 08/07/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Understanding meltdowns and their different phases
✅ Strategies to create calm and manage anxiety
✅ The importance of giving children silence and space: to process, self-regulate and de-escalate
✅ Why “No” can cause a meltdown and what to say instead
✅ Why I treat meltdowns like seizures
✅ What to do after a meltdown and...
Published 07/31/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Simple Classroom Adaptations That Make a Huge Difference to students and YOU
✅ Do you know what to look for to Recognise SPD?
✅ Busy Classroom Teacher Strategies to help Students Self Regulate
✅ 8 Warning Signs of Slow Processing Speed – Plus What Simple Modifications & Strategies to Help
✅ Why Do They Do That? 12...
Published 07/24/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Activities and exercises for self-awareness and self-control
✅ The importance of a consistent program in teaching emotional regulation
✅ Whole class activities on emotional regulation
✅ How to individualise activities for unique children
✅ How to use visuals
✅ Importance of a positive environment
✅ The Red Beast Picture...
Published 07/17/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Book now targets broader Autism Spectrum
✅ Revised "Red Beast" metaphor to reduce distress
✅ Updated illustrations for enhanced inclusivity
✅ Character names changed for gender neutrality
✅ Incorporated children's viewpoints from school visits
✅ Adjusted imagery to depict gentler adult handling
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Published 07/09/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ The diagnosis that made Eliza realise why she had to parent differently
✅ Importance of consistency instead of planning for PDA
✅ Classroom strategies for PDA
✅ Focusing on Fun and meeting the child where they’re at
✅ Strategies of low-demand parenting
✅ About Eliza’s best selling book: Can’t Not Won’t
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Published 06/26/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Sequence, order and routine
✅ Writing skills like recipes and observations
✅ Why cooking for somebody else is important to teach
✅ Sensory desensitisation (you don’t have to do the eating for cooking to be worthwhile)
✅ Motor Skills
✅ The importance of “Backward chaining”
✅ Tips and tools to make it easier to start...
Published 06/19/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Navigate puberty discussions with neurodivergent children
✅ What age should you have conversations about puberty and sex?
✅ How to have open, honest and ongoing conversations about puberty
✅ Teaching children about changes in the opposite sex
✅ Keeping children safe online
✅ Hygiene is an important part too
✅ Talking to...
Published 06/12/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ Starting with the end in mind
✅ The 50/50 Learning & Behaviour Plan
✅ Modelling behaviour and demonstrating Plan B’s
✅ Encouraging independence with timers, visuals and schedules
✅ Using 3 Rs – rewards, repetition and routines
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Published 06/05/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ How fear of failure can paralyse students
✅ Ideas to give students more direction in their work
✅ How to provide clear directions
✅ Importance of positive reinforcement
✅ Breaking down tasks into manageable chunks
✅ My top resources to learn more about engagement
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Published 05/29/23
Join Sue for an upcoming Live Virtual Workshop where you will learn from Sue practical tips & strategies to make a difference.
In this episode, we will discuss:
✅ How to encourage non-verbal children to make social connections
✅ Managing the transition from special school to mainstream
✅ Secondary school and young adult social strategies
✅ Students refusing to sit next to others
✅ Managing emotions in the playground
✅ Strategies for Oppositional Defiance Disorder in the classroom
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Published 05/22/23