Causes of autism

Talk about Autism The “Talk about autism” ad is a vary powerful ad. With the use of logical statement and powerful imagery. The ad provokes a lot of emotion. In fact, the ad prominently uses emotion to get people talking about autism diagnosis. The ad is tartaning two types of people. The first group is the people that know an autistic child and the second grope is the rest of society. The ad dose a pretty good job of getting people to talk about autism. The ad is of a little boy and his…

kindergarten students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Although the results of the study showed that the intervention modestly decreased behavioral problems, it appears that using Social Stories may be effective and provide potential benefits to some students with autism. One of the methods that educators can use to increase positive behaviors for children with autism is Social Story intervention. Social Stories are personalized, short stories that help children on the autism spectrum understand…

issue to neglect. One of such developmental disorder is autism. Autism is a neurological developmental disorder. Autism is not a single condition, but is a spectrum of disorders. Autism is one of the five developmental disorders listed under autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) apart from Asperger's syndrome, Rett disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive development disorder - not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS). The idiom ‘autism spectrum disorders’ is the common classification…

Competency 6 For someone who has worked in the school system for 5 years, I have worked with many students that have been diagnosed with Autism and/or Asperger’s Disorders. By the time they enter the school setting they have often already been diagnosed. I was always curious how children could be diagnosed with Autism at such a young age, and I learned a lot of new information on how it is diagnosed. After reading the texts, and samples many of my previous questions were answered about these…

Specific language impairment is a condition which makes code switching in language acquisition tremendously difficult for children. These children already display incomplete grammatical abilities in relation to older age groups with typical language. These difficulties are typically shown when interchanging their two languages which, is known as code switching, and is done within sentences. For children with both specific language impairment and bilingualism, their linguistic abilities may…

As I read the chapter “How Might Learning through an Educational Interpreter Influence Cognitive Development” by Brenda Schick (2005), I came away with three main points: an interpreter can delay a child’s development of Theory of Mind, the presence of an interpreter can limit a deaf or hard of hearing (hoh) student’s interactions with hearing students, and an interpreter can impact learning by omitting or distorting information. The ability to think abstractly and realize that people have…

Did you know that the autistic brain is very smart and can think differently than other brains? For example Temple Grandin, she invented a human squeeze machine which she made to control herself when she would get anxious. She also wrote a book and in that book we read a chapter called “From the Margins to the Mainstream,” in The Autistic Brain. It talks about many different features the autistic brain. For that reason the central idea is that the autistic brain can sometimes not react in the…

The main difference between communicating with adults, children and young people is their language skills. Obviously a child has very different language skills then and adult. You also have to take in account that a child has a much shorter attention span then and adult or young person. A subject that an adult finds fascinating might be very boring for a child. Question: Question 7 Answer: There can be several reasons why you need to adapt your communications. One of them is because English…

I work as a company director for a business providing marketing services. During the past year I have volunteered to support two autistic boys to enable them communicate more effectively. My interest to involve myself in working with autistic children evolved as I was observing my friend’s 7 year old, able and verbal autistic son Matthew (name changed to protect the confidentiality) trying to play with other children and failing it every time due to his limited communication skills. As I…

accomplish, make a positive impact and achieve economic well-being, ECM (2003). National Autistic Society is one of the leading UK charity that help children with autism. They help meet their needs by providing information, support and pioneering service and campaign for a better world for these children, NAS (2015) According to Baron-Cohen (2004), autism is a condition that affects some children from birth and leaves them incapable of forming normal social relationships, or to improve typical…