Online 6/26/2013 Autism General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech‚ I want my audience to understand what Autism is and the effects on children. Thesis: Every person should be aware that the children with Autism are unique‚ intelligent‚ and they can see the world in a different perspective then we do. Introduction I. Found out my niece had Autism‚ and how little I knew about what Autism is‚ and what it effects. II. Autism affects 1 in 88 American
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Neurocognitive Disorder Research: Autism Psychology November‚ 09‚ 2010 "Autism is a lifelong developmental disability. It is part of the autism spectrum and is sometimes referred to as an autism spectrum disorder‚ or an ASD. The word ’spectrum ’ is used because‚ while all people with autism share three main areas of difficulty‚ their condition will affect them in very different ways. Some are able to live relatively ’everyday ’ lives; others will require a lifetime of specialist
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TEACHING STUDENTS WITH AUTISM ALEXIA WALTERS KAPLAN UNIVERSITY TEACHING STUDENTS WITH AUTISM INTRODUCTION A. What is autism? B. How can a parent detect if their child has autism? THE CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTISM A. Communication (Language) B. Social behavior C. Learning styles HOW AUTISM AFFECTS THE STUDENT IN EVERYDAY LIFE A. It affects their learning abilities B. It affect how they interact with other students C. It affect how they interact
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pattern in many families of autism or related disabilities‚ encouraging the theory that the disorder has a genetic basis. While no one gene has been singled out as causing autism‚ researchers are looking for irregular portions of genetic code that children with autism may have inherited. It also seems that some children are born with a susceptibility to autism‚ but researchers have not yet named a single “trigger” that causes autism to develop. Characteristics Autism can be linked with intellectual
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Re: Why does the Vaccine/autism controversy live on? From Discover magazine‚ June 2009 The purpose of this article is to reveal the reason that the vaccine/autism controversy still lives on and the importance of understanding this controversy. Since the early 1990’s the incidence of autism has dramatically increased‚ Researchers claimed an epidemic of autism. Some publications showed evidence that mercury and thimerosal in vaccines might cause autism. However‚ the opponents of this controversy
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The Ignorance Towards Autism The average person tends to stare‚ or look away from a person with a disability. The average person is ignorant about the condition that every 1 in 88 people are diagnosed with‚ which is autism. The average person considers autism to be a disease that a person may “suffer” from‚ and tend to label these people as “unfixable.” Like the well known character Lennie‚ from the novel Of Mice and Men‚ written by John Steinbeck‚ people cannot seem to understand the reason Lennie
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Autism is a serious developmental disorder that completely impairs children to communicate with their parents and others. When a child is born with Autism the parents might not notice any signs of the disorder. The disorder is usually detected around the first three years of the child’s life. Since there are no known test to determine if a child has Autism there are many indications that a child might be suffering from Autism. When a mother brings a child home from the hospital the thought of
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Informative Speech Date 10-10-2012 Topic – Hippotherapy for Children with Autism Specific Purpose – To inform my audience of Hippotherapy for Children with Autism Central Idea – The four benefits of Hippotherapy for children with Autism Introduction I. How many of you know what Hippotherapy is? Do you know the benefits of Hippotherapy for children with Autism? II. I learned about Hippotherapy about six years ago when I had to get rid of my horse (I couldn’t afford my horse and
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How do you feel when you hear the word autism? There is a numerous amount of people that are actually afraid of people with autism‚ or they just do not know how to act around them. Here is the kicker though: they are people just like me and you just born with different chromosomes than us. So why do we keep acting like this towards them when they are no different than us? Do we think that we are going to catch what they have? Although autism has been a vast issue since the 1980’s‚ it is still
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Although some say that autism can’t be cured‚ and research should be spent on other disability’s‚ that research should be spent on autism because it is a serious disability. Many blame genetics for autism‚ but in many cases‚ genetics has nothing to do with it. Other disabilitys aren’t as serious or as prevelant as autism‚ so why do they get more funding than autism? Children affected by autism should grow up knowing that people are trying to find a cure for them‚ that people are funding the research
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