Teaching children to recognise the sex of individuals

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I am a TA in a Special Needs Unit, 1:1 supporting children with ASD. I work in KS1. How do I teach children to recognise and differentiate between girls and boys, and use pronouns correctly, without resorting to stereotypes?

My son has autism and I find this thread a little odd. Your concern about this specific issue for these children sounds a little unnecessary? If they are functioning at the level of 3 year olds then its not a big deal for them to mix up who is a boy and who is a girl.

My son often forgot if she went with a girl or a boy rather than not being able to recognise if someone was a boy or girl.

We just corrected him when necessary. He still sometimes forgets but less frequently.

My 19 yo is autistic and has learning disabilities too. He still gets pronouns wrong - calls his sister "he", said "he's having a baby" about a lady at his school.

He know the differences between males and females, he knows we say she for girls and he for boys etc but he doesn't always get it right. And he still thinks girls have long hair, so he'll call a boy with long hair she even though he knows plenty of boys with long hair.

Due to his learning disabilities it's ongoing, I just gently correct him, or asking him if the person he's talking about is a boy or girl and he'll usually then remember which pronoun to use.

But as the person we're talking about isn't usually there I'm not too worried about him offending people.

Ask him what date something happened or the birthdate of anyone at his school and he'll tell you though!

I agree I don't understand why this would be particularl concern/ priority for these children.

A child communicating at that level would have a range of much more important language needs in my experience.

It's not something I've ever been aware of a a pressing need.