About Us

We are graduate students at Teachers College, Columbia University working towards our Masters in Inclusive Elementary Education and Teaching Students with Disabilities.

Christine

is working in an 2nd grade ICT classroom with students with a variety of needs, including autism.

Evelyn

is working in an Kindergarten and 1st grade 6-1-1 self-contained classroom with children with autism.

Megan

is working in an 7th and 8th grade 6-1-1 self-contained classroom with children with autism.

Ana

is working with a SETSS (Special Education Teacher Support Services) provider to facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities, including those with autism, in general education 5th to 8th grade classrooms.

We Believe...

We would feel uncomfortable stating any sort of concrete definition for what autism is, as we do not have autism ourselves. Rather, we feel the personal narratives of those individuals identified as having autism that are represented on this website can give a much greater insight.

We strongly feel that every individual is unique, and that if you know one person with autism, you only know one person with autism. The range of complexity of this disability is immense, furthering the need to understand each individual with autism for who they are, and what they need.

Get to know your student(s) in genuine ways, and discover what their day to day interactions, actions, language, and other behaviors mean, so that you can best support them in an authentic way.