Autism Ethical Principles

Many disciplines in the health, education, and specialists in certain area are including in the assessing process of the child in addition to developing effective and appropriate treatments for the child. A child with Autism will fall on the Autism Spectrum, based on his or her stance on the spectrum will determine the degree of Autism the child has, this is typically characterized by the symptoms the child exhibits. It is important to get know the child, conducting many test to see where the child’s weakness and strengthens, developing your treatment around this information. As stated before, the discipline discussed would be involved during the child early stages when he or she would be in the process of being diagnosis. After the child is
As a professional, he or she is held to rules and certain ethical principles that must be followed at all times. Each disciplines discussed has it own set of ethical principles. However, there have been many cases where each of these professionals broke these ethical principles, facing legal consequences for their inappropriate and unethical actions. Speech pathologist, occupational therapist, physicians, psychologist, and teachers have very similar ethical principals they must follow. Ethical principles are given to each of these disciplines in order to provide generalized framework within each field. Ethical principle help protect the rights of individuals. The most common ethical implication these professions face is mistreatment towards individuals with disabilities, such as Autism. All these professional must never mistreat their patient or students, such as physically hurt them, mentally hurt them, and put them in danger. Another ethical principle all these disciplines must follow is the child and student confidentiality, such as not revealing another personal information unless necessary or given permission by a parent or guardian. If this confidentiality is broken these professionals may be faced with serious consequences. Since these professionals will be working closely with children with Autism, it is important to establish a relationship with them where there is trust and respect, however, this relationship must be appropriate. However, if the professionals become too involved with their patient or student, such as establishing an inappropriate relationship, there can be serious repercussions. These are just some of the ethical principles that all these professions have in common that they to follow when working with this social issue. Each discipline has a set of ethical principles that pertain to their