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Michelle Emery

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3/16/2023
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Students with Disabilities

Michelle Emery
Michelle Emery
I have a 2nd grader who presents as autistic, but is undiagnosed. She has a love for art and drawing in black sharpie. She makes many drawings in one 40 min. class. As I started to get to see her behaviors, I realized she has learned to be helpless and loud when she doesn't want to do something. She was not getting enough attention or praise from me. I moved a small individual desk next to mine and faced it backwards so she couldn't see what I had hidden inside. She was sideways towards the class, and her view if she looked up was at me and the window next to me. She happily sat down and tried to make an animal silhouette paper cut out after I show her the huge stack of drawing paper and a black sharpie inside her desk. I asked her to show me that she understood my lesson and directions for cutting out her giraffe. I premade pieces to give her in case she had a hard time cutting. She had not used scissors in front of me ever, so this was a break through in listening and trying to follow directions. I showed her work/my work under the camera for the class to see. She could choose fellow classmates that raised their hand to give her an artist compliment. Students loved reinforcing the lesson with the correct vocabulary art words that we had been working on as our part of our lesson's goal. Everyone felt uplifted that this student, who usually tips paint, yells and says terrible things to get attention or out of doing something new, was now thriving with positive and authentic feedback.
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