Amanda+G

My name is Amanda Gaffey. I am a speech pathologist in 2 schools- the Irving Middle School in Roslindale and the Jackson Mann K-8 in Allston. I work with students from pre-k to 8th grade.



Hi Amanda- Temporal concepts and time concepts are so hard to teach! I'm looking forward to hearing more about how you'll make them meaningful to your students with autism. Where will you start? Days of the week? Seasons? What routines and visuals are already in place in the classroom to support the students' understanding of time concepts? Looking forward to hearing more. I like the essential questions you came up with. I really struggled with mine! -Sara

Hi Amanda,

Sorry for my lateness. I finally figured out what we are supposed to do to post... I was having difficulty figuring it out. In reading your plan, it sounds like you have a really challenging class! I'm not familiar with the abilities of an autistic classroom, but everything you mentioned are things that I take for granted... and when I think about how I learned about time, it seems kind of innate. Yet it is very abstract as Sara said... What I'm guessing you need to build is their schema on time. Help them associate different holidays, seasons, climate, etc. that match a month... But this is building on a lot of prior knowledge...I'm not sure how much they have.

Just a thought... what if your kids planted seeds?? And they watched the plants grow and plotted them on a timeline.. and visually could see the growth of the plant and practice using a calendar... I don't know if that would be concrete enough? -Nasrin

I updated the file above which I posted last week, so this week's assignment should be there!
 * Posting for Session 3:**

Oops- I just realized I never posted my rubric. It is posted here. I dont usually use rubrics, so this may be a rather crude interpretation of one, but I just tried to think about the steps I am look for in how I assess understanding.