"The Sensory Learning NZ website is the home of the Sensory Learning Toolkit (SLTNZ). The SLTNZ has been designed primarily for practitioners of students with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD). We have researched, tried and tested tools to gather data and approaches to learning that are suitable and relevant to this group of students. Tools that show the very small and often subtle changes in student behaviour that show learning and how they learn. At the heart of the SLTNZ is the belief that 'everyone is learner', starting from a base of 'presuming competence' and celebrating achievements.
The overriding framework and approach however can be used with higher functioning students of all ages. The tools used to gather data will change but the process will be the same."
This LiveBinder on "Accessing the POWER of Switch Activities for Students with High Sensory Needs" provides a wealth of resources, including assessment tools, activities for the senses, adaptation tips and tricks, and social engagement.
This is a subscription-based resource, however, there are plenty of sample ideas and resources that are available on the welcome page. Autism Inspiration provides a variety of resources for parents and teachers of children with autism spectrum behaviors. Resources provided include social scripts, lesson plans, games, group activities, sensory integration ideas, and other valuable tools and information to help teach children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Delay (PDD), Sensory Integration Disorder, and other related behaviors.
"Tips for Home and School & DB-Link Fact Sheets
The Nevada Dual Sensory Impairment Project has a number of tips available that may be helpful for use at home or in a school setting. These documents may be downloaded and printed. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.
Great Expectations brings popular picture books to life using a multi-sensory approach - songs, tactile play, picture descriptions, body movement, engaged listening - all designed to promote active reading experiences for children with visual impairments.
Hold Everything!
Twenty "Stay-Put" Play Spaces
For Infants, Preschoolers and Developmentally Young Children
With Sensory Impairments and Other Special Needs
The Kaufman Children's Center For Speech, Language, Sensory-Motor, and Social Connections, Inc. provides specialized speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and sensory integration services
"The purpose of the NJC is to advocate for individuals with significant communication support needs resulting from intellectual disability, that may coexist with autism, sensory and/or motor limitation."
Use the Happiness Audit to learn and document how to engage each student. Have your families participate in this lasting record to pass along in transitions and to tailor your instruction.
"We have developed these thematic units to support you in delivering a vibrant and motivating curriculum for learners aged 3-19 with profound and multiple learning difficulties (PMLD). These units are aligned with the Northern Ireland Curriculum."
A Stepping-Up Technology Implementation Grant directed by the Center for Literacy and Disabilities Studies. The universal core vocabulary will be provided in multiple formats and levels of complexity to meet the diverse sensory and physical needs of students.
Learners differ in the ways that they perceive and comprehend information that is presented to them. For example, those with sensory disabilities (e.g., blindness or deafness); learning disabilities (e.g., dyslexia); language or cultural differences, and