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-Incorporate sensory breaks: exercises, sensory tools like fidgets, stress balls, tangle toys in order to help the students regulate focus and energy.

-Modify classroom layout: providing alternative seating like a quite space or corner, reduce clutter, and adjusting lighting and sound.

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-The used of schedules, calendars, and picture cues or labeling.

-Present instructions in routines like drawings, photographs, and written words.

-Display two or more choices of activities with medium to large icons or symbol cards using Velcro.

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-Have activities of role-playing

-Have a structure peer interaction by pairing students and group activities.

-Using videos with animated characters or any relatable situations to demonstrate social skills.

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-By having daily feelings check-ins throughout the day with an emotion charts with emojis, pictures or color-coded zones.

-Have social stories like a short narrative describing specific social situations and appropriate emotional responses.

-Have a mindfulness activity like a sound in the room or mindful coloring.

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-Teach hands-on learning by providing real-world experiences within the classroom.

-Practice personal hygiene, transportation skills, and home-skills like cooking or washing.

-Promoting self-advocacy to help students foster independence.

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-Having academic lessons from real-world applications like grocery shopping scenarios for math lessons.

-Empower self-determination by fostering students' ability to make their own choices.

-Practicing personal information and recognizing names, addresses, and phone numbers.

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-Self-regulation tools to help students regulate when they are feeling overwhelmed.

-Help students create their own goal-setting and allow them to track their own goal building a sense of responsibility.

-The use of hand-over-hand guidance with consistency in order for students to promote skill generalaztion.

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-By providing a quiet calming space for students to be able to use their sensory fidgets or take deep breaths to go when feeling overwhelmed.

-By adjusting the classroom lighting and having different calming music in between lessons can help the students feel less overwhelmed.

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-By having a visual schedule for students to see every day coming into the classroom helps them adjust better.

-By having Velcro symbol cards for your daily activities helps students have a better sense of the activity.

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-Using animated videos to help students identify how they can use their social skills at school or outside of school.

-By having group activities, it helps students identify what social skills they have or they can practice on in order to feel confident with themselves.

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-Having daily check-ins at the beginning of the class can help teachers know how each student is feeling emotionally.

-If a student needs more than just color-coded zones to express how they are feeling, the teacher can have social stories for the student to help them express their emotions without any use of aggression.

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-By having real life learning lesson where the students can learn basic skills like knowing how to get the VTA or learning how to wash can help their life skills and gets them prepared for adulthood.

-Having activities or lessons in how to react when a fire or earthquake occurs can help their skills progress once they graduate high school.

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-In math class, students should be able to have lessons in how to grocery shop and use their money skills.

-Not all students have their personal information memorized and it is important to keep practicing their personal information so each student has a sense of seld-determination.

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-If teachers can give their students decide what kind of goal they are aiming to achieve by the end of the year, helps them take responsibility of their progress.

-If a non-verbal student cannot speak nor write on their own, they can still work on the same paper assignments as their other peers as long as an aid is using hand-over-hand to help the student trace over or write.

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-Technical Assistance and Training Systems (TATS), 2017. Addressing adapting skills in the classroom. https://tats.ufc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2017/11/Adaptive-skill-in-the-classroom-Overview.pdf

-Mastermind, 2025. How to teach functional academics to older children. https://www.mastermindbehavior.com/post/how-to-teach-functional-academics-to-older-children

-National Library of Medicine, 2025. The use of multi-sensory envrionments with autistic children: Exploring the effect of having control of sensory changes. https://pmc.ncbi.nml.nih.gov/articles/PMC9340127/