* Difficulties understanding spoken language

* Difficulties expressing needs verbally

* Poor pronunciation and voice control

* Difficulties with social interaction skills

* Difficulty maintaining eye contact and appropriate personal space

* Misunderstanding social situations

* Problems understanding gestures/nonverbal cues

* Unusual responses to touch, taste, smell, and/or sounds

*Difficulty with transitions and change of routines

* Perseveration on particular subjects

2. Teach tasks in a series of simple steps/ with visuals as much as possible

3. Provide regular reinforcement of expected behavior

4. Model new skills and concepts whenever possible

5. Review, rehearse, reinforce new learning

6.  Visual, written, tactual, verbal, physical prompts and cues

7.  Use communication boards, books, cards

8.  Graduated guidance instruction

9.  Teaches a system of prompts

10.  Repeated directions

Create boundaries help the student understand where he is supposed to be.

Add contextual cues to provide a general idea of what is expected to do there.