ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Hi, I’m Nikki —a passionate special educator, autism specialist, and founder of Teaching Autism. With over a decade of experience creating hands-on, engaging resources for educators worldwide, I’m here to make your teaching journey easier, more effective, and a lot more fun!
With each episode, I’ll bring you practical tips, creative strategies, and inspiring insights to help you thrive in your autism and special education classroom. From tackling behavior challenges to creating meaningful lesson plans, we’ll dive deep into what works—and what doesn’t—in the world of special education.
You’ll find:
✅ Real-world strategies you can use tomorrow.
✅ Expert advice for creating inclusive, student-centered classrooms.
✅ Honest conversations about the joys and challenges of teaching.
✅ Plenty of laughs, relatable moments, and inspiration to keep you going.
Whether you’re a seasoned educator, new to special education, or simply looking to level up your teaching game, this podcast is your go-to resource for empowering yourself and your students.
Join me on this journey, and let’s build better classrooms together!
Hit “subscribe” and tune in to each episode to fill your teaching toolbox with fresh ideas, tools, and motivation. Let’s make teaching less stressful and a whole lot more impactful!
With each episode, I’ll bring you practical tips, creative strategies, and inspiring insights to help you thrive in your autism and special education classroom. From tackling behavior challenges to creating meaningful lesson plans, we’ll dive deep into what works—and what doesn’t—in the world of special education.
You’ll find:
✅ Real-world strategies you can use tomorrow.
✅ Expert advice for creating inclusive, student-centered classrooms.
✅ Honest conversations about the joys and challenges of teaching.
✅ Plenty of laughs, relatable moments, and inspiration to keep you going.
Whether you’re a seasoned educator, new to special education, or simply looking to level up your teaching game, this podcast is your go-to resource for empowering yourself and your students.
Join me on this journey, and let’s build better classrooms together!
Hit “subscribe” and tune in to each episode to fill your teaching toolbox with fresh ideas, tools, and motivation. Let’s make teaching less stressful and a whole lot more impactful!
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
14 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
194 episodes
since May 2, 2019
episodic
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
PDA Profiles in the Classroom
Have you ever worked with a student who seems to resist even the smallest everyday demands - sometimes even things they actually want to do?
In this episode, we’re talking about PDA profiles in the classroom and how anxiety, autonomy, and nervous system response…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Rejection Sensitivity and Explosive Reactions
Have you ever given what felt like a tiny piece of feedback, only for a student to have a huge emotional reaction?
In this episode, we’re talking about rejection sensitivity - an intense emotional response to perceived criticism, rejection, or fa…
Why Behavior Changes With Substitute Teachers
Ever noticed how even your most regulated students can seem completely different when there’s a substitute teacher in the classroom?
In this episode, we’re talking about why behavior can change when a familiar teacher is absent - and why it often…
The After-School Restraint Collapse
Have you ever heard, “They’re perfect at school… but the second they get home, they completely fall apart”?
In this episode, we’re talking about after-school restraint collapse - when a child spends the day holding it together, masking, managing sensory in…
Micro-Stressors That Build to Meltdowns
Sometimes a meltdown can feel like it came completely out of nowhere - but often, there’s been a whole day of tiny stressors quietly building in the background.
In this episode, we’re talking about micro-stressors: the small sensory, social, emotional,…
Have you ever heard someone say, “They know exactly what they’re doing,” “They’re playing us,” or “They’re just being manipulative”?
The word manipulative gets thrown around pretty quickly in schools and special education settings. But once we give a student that label, it can completely change th…
Why can a student seem completely fine one minute and suddenly become overwhelmed the next?
In this episode of Teaching Autism and Special Education with Nikki, we’re looking at what’s actually happening in the brain and body during escalation and why understanding the nervous system can completel…
In this episode of Teaching Autism and Special Education with Nikki, we’re unpacking why some students become strongly attached to one specific staff member and what is often happening underneath that behavior. Whether it looks like refusal to work with anyone else, following one adult constantly, …
In this episode of Teaching Autism and Special Education with Nikki, we’re unpacking a behavior pattern that can feel incredibly intense in the classroom: when students seem to control the environment through chaos. We explore why some students suddenly escalate situations, disrupt lessons, argue, …
In this episode of Teaching Autism and Special Education with Nikki, we’re exploring what can happen when trauma triggers show up in the classroom and why some student reactions can seem much bigger than the moment itself. We unpack what trauma triggers actually are, how the nervous system responds…
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