Characteristic-Strategy Graphic Organizer

To organize Needs & for Intervention Purposes

Disability Category: Autism
Possibly / Common Strengths: Creativity, energetic, strong in one
area, looking at things from a unique angle

Common Disability
Characteristics

Instructional or Behavioral
Strategies
student may be taught to use for school
success

Academic
A) Communication Deficit

A-1 Response Cards- Students will be

able to use the cards instead of verbally
communicating.
A-2 Choral Responding- This will help
students respond orally with their
classmates, making their communication
deficit unnoticeable others, keeping the
student at ease.
B-1 Sticky Note Strategy- Students will
be able to go through stories and mark
important concepts, any questions they
may have, and
B-2 Cornell Notes- Students will have to
follow along with the lecture in order to fill
in the notes.

B) To learn concretely

Social / School (Skills)

A) Difficulty relating to others

B) Become fixated on specifics

A-1 PALS- High school students will be

able to give relate to the struggling
student, giving them confidence and peer
assistance in order to succeed.
A-2 Classwide Peer Tutoring
B-1 Visual Schedule- We will be able to
redirect the students behavior onto their
schedule.
B-2 Choice- The student will get to make
some daily choices, and when the student
gets fixated on a specific, we can redirect
the student to the choices they made and
move on to the next activity.

Behavior / Organization
A) Repetitive behaviors

B) Aggression

A-1 Movements, music, and rhythmAllows students to get up and move around
the classroom. We can match movements
to music and replace the repetitive
behavior.
A-2 Educational games- I will be able to
refocus the student off their repetitive
behavior.
B-1 Good behavior game- If the student
has had good behavior, and has not shown
aggression, they will be able to play the
good behavior game.
B-2 Journaling- Students will be able to
write down their feelings, questions, and
concerns. It will open a safe place for the
students to communicate with the teacher.