My students have difficulty describing people. They often get the gender of people mixed up. They can describe someone's shirt color but not hair color. Beards, mustaches, blonde hair, bald heads are concepts they should know, but do not. Help me teach them to describe themselves and others.
My student are autistic adolescents that attend a public special education school in NY.
They are a lot of fun to be with and they are excited to learn if it is presented as a game. I became aware of their inability to describe people when one student told me he liked a girl in the school. When I asked him what her name was, he said he didn't know. Then when I asked him to describe her, he thought for a long time and then told me she wore a pink shirt! Our school has 300 students! I realized I had to teach him and his classmates how to describe people.
My Project
Each student will have their own game board. "Guess Who" has 2 boards in each game. Each student will take turns asking me questions to guess the picture I have. Depending on my Yes/No answer, they will have to turn down tiles to guess who I have in my hand. Students will have to discriminate who has blonde hair, dark skin, bald head, beard, glasses, etc. By learning all these adjectives, students will grasp the differences between people and be better able to give a description of a real person. (ie. "Who gave you a dollar? - "The man with the beard and red hair") The colored pencils will be used to draw people and describe them.
Autistic individuals don't pay much attention to other people.
This ongoing lesson will help them to look at others and to discriminate the differences between people. It could be come very helpful in their lives if they don't know someone's name and are asked to describe them.
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