Teaching · Special Education

Notice the signal, offer what actually helps.

Record how the student shows a feeling, the body signals that come first and what helps. The summary maps each signal to its support, sorts supports by how well they work for this student and keeps their own words on top.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 130 items.

The support organizer

One profile per student; update it as you learn more. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A one-page profile of the student’s signals, the supports that help and those that do not, and what the student says, for every adult who works with them.
Who it is for
Special education teachers, counselors, speech-language pathologists and autism specialists, writing the profile with the student.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved profile per student; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the body signals; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
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Drawn for this page. Noticing where a feeling shows up in the body often comes before having a word for it.

How to use it

  1. Start a profile with a code or initials.
  2. Write down how the student already shows feelings, including movement and leaving the space.
  3. Over a week or two, note the body signals that come before a big feeling and what helped.
  4. Rate each support by how well it helps this student, not students in general.
  5. Go through it with the student in the way they communicate best, and add their words.

Start a profile

How the profile works

Why body signals first

Many autistic people notice internal body signals differently, and some find naming feelings hard. Starting from what the body does, and what helps, works whether or not a word comes.

Affirming, not fixing

The profile supports the student’s own ways of regulating, such as humming, pacing or leaving the space. It does not ask for eye contact, quiet hands or masking.

What it is not

Not a behavior plan and not a diagnosis. If a student is in distress that the supports do not reach, involve the school’s mental health staff and the family.

Sources

  1. Kinnaird, E., Stewart, C., and Tchanturia, K. (2019). Investigating alexithymia in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European Psychiatry, 55, 80 to 89.
  2. Mahler, K. Interoception: The Eighth Sensory System. AAPC Publishing, 2016.
  3. Garfinkel, S. N., et al. (2016). Discrepancies between dimensions of interoception in autism: implications for emotion and anxiety. Biological Psychology, 114, 117 to 126.
  4. Pellicano, E., and den Houting, J. (2022). Annual research review: shifting from normal science to neurodiversity in autism science. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63(4), 381 to 396.

The example student is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.