Informative Speech Outline On Autism

Topic: Autism
General Purpose: Inform
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about autism.
Autistic

Introduction
Attention Catcher: You notice a child throwing a tantrum, and you think to yourself, isn’t that child too old to be acting like that! Listener Relevance: What you may not know is that, that particular child is autistic. Today I am going to tell you what it means to be autistic. Thesis: Autism is real and affects many in various ways. My goal is to inform you on how it affects people and how to interact with an autistic person. Preview of main points: I will inform you on the meaning of autism, signs, symptoms, and causes of autism, as well as treatments for autism. Body Main point I: What autism is?
A. Autism
As the Autism speaks website states, that with autism it is “difficult to regulate emotions, which can make the person have immature behaviors such as crying or having outbursts in inappropriate situations. It can also lead to disruptive and physically aggressive behavior. These can be more pronounced in unfamiliar, overwhelming or frustrating situations. Frustration can also lead to behaviors such as head banging, hair pulling, or self-biting. Repetitive behaviors such as hand-flapping, rocking, jumping, and twirling, arranging and rearranging objects, and repeating sounds, words or phrases are common. Adults and children with autism demand extreme consistency in their environment and daily routine, slight changes can be very stressful and lead to outbursts. People affected by autism also suffer from sleep and sensory processing problems; they may experience normal stimuli as painful, unpleasant, or
Main point III: Treatments
A. As stated by the NINDS website: “Treatments include educational and behavioral interventions where therapists use highly structured and intensive skill oriented training sessions to help children develop social and language skills. Doctors may prescribe medications for anxiety, depression, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, antipsychotic medications are used to treat severe behavioral problems, and medications used to treat people with ADD can also be used to help decrease impulsiveness and hyperactivity.” The Autism Speaks website states that for those with sleep problems Melatonin supplements have been found to help”.

B. Other forms of treatment as stated by the Autism speaks website includes “occupational therapy which addresses cognitive, physical and motor skills; and sensory integration therapy which strives to improve how the brain interprets and integrates sensory information”.

Conclusion

Thesis Restatement: I hope this will help you to understand how real autism is, how it affects many in various ways, and how to interact with an autistic