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this summer at cares during resy program we decided to offer an art class to all the students at cares I invited Jordan Zimmermann who was a former hairs alumni to teach this art class now. The thought process was to 1 Jordan is up extremely good artist she's very creative one of the questionable Parts was the Jordans completely non-verbal patches we work together came up with kind of some seem so what she did is she highlighted an artist a week and she created a Project based on the style of each artist each week most amazing thing that came out of this was to see how a student with autism with structure a classroom for children with autism it was absolutely amazing I gave her full rain on you know this is your classroom I watch you two straps up his classroom so that it makes sense to you and therefore to your students she had visual supports she broke down complex tasks into simple steps everything was visually clear to her students but the amazing part was when we actually saw the students enter her classroom they knew exactly what to do they knew the expectation the classroom was organized it had a feeling of calm and the projects were nicely different set it for each individual student and Jordan did that all on her own from her perspective of what people with Autism need in order to be successful and it was amazing got a piece that I was a little worried about was the nonverbal piece the one thing that I always tell my teachers is less talking more visual supports when I walk into one of my classrooms here at cares oftentimes I'm telling teacher last verbals make your classroom quieter, provide visual support give lots of waiting time so it was amazing to see the difference when kids walk into Jordan's classroom and Jordan didn't say a word she let the visual speak for selves kid did amazing they all of a sudden got quiet they were much, now she did program some of her lessons on her iPad and when she did said they were simple short sentences and add lots of wait time because last time she was typing so kids automatically were drawn to give her their full attention to see what she was doing and then they waited and she always paired her verbal message on her iPad with a visual support but it lasted longer it wasn't kind of in one ear and out the other and they forgot with the topic was so it was really amazing to see the power of structure the power of decreasing the verbal directions the kids did amazing it was wonderful what are the really nice things that Jordan did above and beyond the art class is she saw one student that was really struggling throughout the summer and she came to me and she said how about if I make the student my art helper do you think maybe that would work and I said give it a try so she came up with the whole social story she came up with a token board system and she encouraged the student if you have a really good more you can come in the afternoons and you can be my art helper we saw almost an immediate Behavior turn around he was excited to have the opportunity he felt important he loves spending time with Jordan as well so yeah we saw a definite turn around in his behavior right away Jordan came to us with some extreme behaviors extreme sensory needs but throughout her time here she learned how to use visual what percentage of her she learned how to regulate her own body therefore now she's a great advocate for students who have autism she's now able to communicate what she needed in order to be successful and what really helped her Hershey's implementing those strategies to help other students with autism

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