summertime Report post Posted August 21, 2006 Every year at school the children do one major sposored event and this year the head has agreed we can do it for the National Autistic Society. Im hoping to raise awareness as well as cash, Im planning on starting things off with an assembly for the juniors and sending home info for the parents before the sponsored event trouble is I cant think of anything the children can get sponsored to do that is relevant to autism any ideas would bve grately recieved Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheNeil Report post Posted August 21, 2006 Sponsored stim? What about if they all had to communicate via non-verbal (or non-'normal') methods for a day? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bullet Report post Posted August 21, 2006 (edited) Was going to say about nonverbal communication but TheNeil got there before me . Edited August 21, 2006 by Bullet Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
keyholekate Report post Posted August 21, 2006 See who can speak non-stop for the longest on one subject. Regards KHK Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lil_me Report post Posted August 21, 2006 (edited) Bounce ? (tigger next to me mde me think of that) We usually do a walk with our group Tomato throw at LEA staff Edited August 21, 2006 by lil_me Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lynden Report post Posted August 21, 2006 We're doign something with our preschool and because the autism logo is a puzzle piece I thought we might do a sponsored jigsaw event or something - see how many little jigsaws they can do? Lynne x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
baddad Report post Posted August 21, 2006 How about laps round the playing field (with the explanation that some autistic people walk in repetitive patterns as a means of keeping calm)... You could perhaps even offer the kids a number of options and have a description of the various behaviours and (accepted) reasons behind them on the sponsorship forms, so you could have a non-verbal group, a repetitive speech group, a walking group, a jumping/flapping group, a jigsaw/puzzle group etc... Great idea - hope you raise a bundle! L&P BD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daisydot Report post Posted August 21, 2006 My son (ASD) would like a sponsored X-Box playing day, which he would happily do for hours and hours on end ! Obsessive, he certainly is. Daisydot Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lynyona Report post Posted August 21, 2006 Mine definately the same daisydot it would take no effort at all as thats all he does all day already so he s a master at it. lynn Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
summertime Report post Posted August 21, 2006 you could have hit on something there, maybe our year 6's could have a 24hour games athon, and the other ideas are great, thanks all Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daisydot Report post Posted August 21, 2006 You would raise a fortune ! And never mind the Year 6s get all the Dads on it too ! Have an evening X-box sponsored event (with a few bevvies to help everything along) for Dads. See which Dad could spend 6 hours on an x-box - not a problem at all for my hub ! Daisydot Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jen Report post Posted August 21, 2006 yu gi ou competition or a child could be spoken to by several people at once and see if the child can understand what he/she has been told. It would make the children understand that noise distractions cause problems with understanding Jen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
summertime Report post Posted August 21, 2006 or a child could be spoken to by several people at once and see if the child can understand what he/she has been told. It would make the children understand that noise distractions cause problems with understanding Jen thats one of the things I'll be doing in the assembly to raise awareness but if you have any other ideas on how to stimulate the problems asd causes Id be grateful Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bramblebrae Report post Posted August 21, 2006 Hi I'm not sure what age or ability of kids this is for and I don't know how relevant this is to the wider autistic 'problems' but here's my idea. My son is an avid and advanced reader and we used to have a problem with getting anywhere on foot as he always had to stop and read signs, posters, adverts,drains even basically if it had letters he read them - whatever they said - as in "durex it goes on easy" when he was 3yo out loud in the supermarket toilets- lol it's funny now- got a very strange look off the other occupants though! I tried asking his nursery at the time to move the notice board at the bottom of the stairs as this always held him up but no they just carried on complaining about us being late *sigh*! Anyway I thought maybe you could have signs made up around a large area and the pupils would have to stop and read them as they went around and see just how long it takes and then walk around without having to stop and read them to show how much quicker you can do things without the distractions autism can cause our kids to have. Obviously the signs could be filled with autistic related information. With maybe a quiz at the end to ensure they actually read the sign. I'm not sure which bit would actually be sponsored maybe for just taking part or I suppose maybe they could be sponsored for the number of answers they get correct in the quiz as long as it was straightforward with hints or something so mainly they get 100% all round and more sponsor money for NAS sorry if it's a silly idea just popped into my head. Take Care Lorraine Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
summertime Report post Posted August 22, 2006 thats a great idea, I could make up a multiple choice quiz on the signs, maybe I could make the signs with lots of other distractions on so the children have to look carefully for the relevant information. It would certainly work for the older juniors Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
