Autism - Autistic Education

Autistic Education Imagine you’re sitting in a classroom full of kids your age and you’re taking a test. The room is completely silent, when all of a sudden you hear a loud scream coming from the back of the room. The seemingly uncontrollable and loud scream is coming from an autistic child in your class. This situation happens every day, in every grade, but there are only so many things that can be done to avoid it. Autism is a disorder that is diagnosed when a child is at a young age. These children will show a lack of social interaction and communication even before the age of three. Supposedly, autistic children are very restricted in their range of interests and they perform repetitive behavior all the time. Also, it is said that autistic children have social impairments, meaning that they have a harder time being social on a regular basis. One can imagine that because of such impairment, it becomes difficult for an autistic child to have a lot of good friendships. These autistic children therefore probably have a difficult time sitting in class with regular-ed students. Autistic students may be very disruptive in class towards the regular-ed students because they most likely become uncomfortable around a large group of people. Disruption in class caused by autistic children may become a problem for the regular-ed students and their education. But, this disruption could possibly be avoided if autistic children were placed in regular-ed classes from the start of their educational career. This controversy leads to question that in school, should autistic students be separated from regular-ed students?
Although autistic children may portray good behavior at times, there will be times when behaviors will be a distraction to others. Therefore, children affected by autism should be separated from regular-ed students in classes at school. An autistic child will show many symptoms on a regular-day basis. Also, the opportunity for an autistic child to get a

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