Resources.
This page is dedicated to the resources that are readily available and are created by others. I am working to compile lists and my own research. You can navigate to those by returning to the home page. This page is constantly being updated! Look at the Mater Monstrorum homepage for specifics on updates. The sections are divided into three columns each. Each section is listed below for your ease:
  1. Recommended Books, blogs, and social media
  2. Research, Personal Stories, Tools
  3. Autism, EBD, Anxiety
  4. Vision, Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Motor Skills
  5. Tourette Syndrome, Executive Functioning, Intellectual Disability

Recommended Books and Podcasts

  1. The Book Whisperer - This book explores how traditional teaching around reading serves only a few students and ends up harming the rest. It provides ways in which teachers can change the way they teach, discuss, and share reading to foster a REAL love for reading. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO A BOOK STUDY ON THIS BOOK.
  2. Books and articles by Haley Moss

Recommended Blogs and Online Reading

  1. Actually Autistic Blogs List
  2. Pittverse Magazine
  3. Autism Appreciation
  4. Autistic Hoya
  5. Being Different Isn't Bad - an interview with Haley Moss

Recommended Social Media

  1. studiomucci on Instagram
  2. @nyledimarco_ on TikTok
  3. @chrissycanthearyou on TikTok
  4. @heartofoccupation on TikTok

Research

  1. Understood - provides research, suggestions, personal stories, etc.
  2. Learning in the Fast Lane - Suzy Pepper Rollins
  3. A Resource for Equitable Classroom Practices - Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland

Personal Stories

  1. Nyle Dimarco - Making Education Accessible to Deaf Children

Tools

  1. Gimkit
  2. Google Drive
  3. Audacity
  4. Screencastify
  5. Slash and Dash - single word dictation for older students (Jane Flynn)
  6. PBIS World - This is a site for Positive Behaviour Interventions. Some consider this to be a form of ABA and, when used in specific ways, it is. However, there are some good tips and ideas here for how to help support students as well. Please use with caution and read about the dangers of ABA first. 

Autism Specific

  1. Autistics United Canada
  2. studiomucci on Instagram
  3. Haley Moss Website (see above for book list and interview)
  4. On the use of the puzzle piece - Miriam Patrick
  5. The art of autism 
  6. Autistic and Unapologetic
  7. Autism Appreciation
  8. Autistic Hoya
  9. Actually Autistic Blogs List

Emotional Behaviour Disorder

Anxiety

  1. Game - Abyssrium Pole - This game (available on Android and Apple) is very calming. It allows users to build a seascape and inhabit it with various sea life. 
  2. App - #selfcare - This app (available on Android and Apple) helps teach self care activities and employs grounding and calming activities to help relax, center, and ease anxiety. 

Vision

  1. Braille Tutor - Android App - This app helps teach Braille for the sighted. 
  2. Touch and Feel Mazes - This is a GREAT book for your vision students (and others too). It is a book of mazes, but you complete them by touch. This can provide a brain break for vision students!
  3. Wikki Sticks/Wax Craft Sticks - This manipulative is great for students working on motor skills, vision students, or students who need to fidget and move. They can build with these, spell, create images, etc. 

Deaf/Hard of Hearing

  1.  Nyle Dimarco - You can find his TED talk and Social media above, but Nyle is a deaf actor, model, and activist who has a lot of great resources and information.  @nyledimarco_ on TikTok
  2. @chrissycanthearyou on TikTok
  3.  Life Print - This website offers free lessons in American Sign Language.
  4. ASL Pro - A dictionary of ASL terms and signs
  5. ASL Connect - A GREAT resource offered by Gallaudet University. It has free classes in ASL. 

Motor Skills

  1. Wikki Sticks/Wax Craft Sticks - This manipulative is great for students working on motor skills, vision students, or students who need to fidget and move. They can build with these, spell, create images, etc. 
  2. @heartofoccupation on TikTok

Tourette Syndrome

Executive Functioning

Intellectual Disability