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=Welcome to The New Wiki on Resources for Autism Spectrum Disorder=

=Advisory Task Force=

This Wiki is meant to gather resources to assist the Task Force Members in gaining background information, research based evidence on quality instruction and programming, professional development strategies and topics, parent and community involvement, curriculum and program evaluation. Each committee should find look for resources and then add them to your respective page under the appropriate section.

Remember that we are collecting these resources through August 2009. It is the expectation that all task force members will have read the resource material and be prepared to discuss at our next meeting, September 24, 2009.

Topics include:

__**Curriculum**__

[|SCERTS]

__**Instructional Methods**__

[|Reading Comprehension Instruction for Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Review of the Literature]

[|General Resources for Teaching students with autism by Dr. Sally Bloch]

Structuring the Environment

__**Family Involvement**__

[|Family Focus Support Project, State of Illinois]

Community Collaboration

Program Evaluation

Transition opportunities

Team/collaboration approach

Professional development

[|Yale School of Medicine, Autism/PDD (several articles on current research areas)]