Take Stock of Skills
If you took a break this summer, start by looking at where your child left off in their Autism Helper Curriculum last year. Try a few of the unit assessments from that level to see how much they remember. This will help you decide whether to revisit that level for extra practice or move on to the next one. Either way, it’s completely okay; a review can be just as valuable as learning something new.
If you’re a new homeschool parent, The Autism Helper has a Skills Matrix that can help you decide where your child should begin. It’s a great way to start the year with confidence. When you click on any of The Autism Helper’s curricula, it will give you a list of the skills that each level includes. For example, if you click on Language Arts Level 1.5, as you scroll, you will learn that this level focuses on: comprehension of who, what, where, and when questions; functional sight words for the following topics: food, animals, clothing, sports, household, community, school supply, and transportation; identify details/attributes (how things look, feel, sound, behave like, and tastes like); labeling yes/no; non-examples; same/different; and sequencing with first, next, last.
