E12: Interview with a Special Education and Autism Teacher Ft. Erin Williams-Stroh

The Speckled Bees: A Celebration of Childhood

To continue our discussion about Getting Help for Young Children, we brought in Erin Williams-Stroh to talk about how it looks as the child grows. Erin is a super passionate Self Contained Autism Teacher for 2-5th grade students in PWCS. She has a Bachelors in Multidisciplinary Studies (Elementary Ed.) and a Masters in Special Education from Marymount University.
We talk about how early intervention positively impacts children as they grow and about parent and family support for the child. We discuss how the teacher sets up the culture of acceptance in the classroom and peer acceptance plays a huge role in a child's success. We talk about diagnosis, IEPs, and integration and inclusion and what these look like in classrooms.
Since Erin's specialty is Autism, we talk about its prevalence and the vastness of the spectrum. We even play a game to see how almost everyone falls on the spectrum in some way or another!
Erin also gave us her top favorite books for read-a-louds and discussions with children:
“Nathan’s Autism Spectrum Superpowers” by Lori Leigh Yarborough
“All My Stripes” by Shaina Rudolph and Danielle Royer
“My Brother Charlie” by Holly Robinson Peete
“Uniquely Wired: A Story About Autism and Its Gifts” by Julia Cook
“The Girl Who Thought in Pictures: The Story of Dr. Temple Grandin”
“Ethan's Story; My Life With Autism”
“Different Like Me: My Book of Autism Heroes”
“I See Things Differently: A First Look at Autism “
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