Educating Special Needs Students: I.e. Autism and other Severe Disabilities Timothy E. Jackson SPE -226 Educating the Exceptional Learner February 23‚ 2011 Professor Rebekah McCarthy This essay is entitled Educating Special Needs Students‚ the author will discuss and several important issues‚ which will be the following; the defining of Mental Retardation a term the author despises‚ Autism‚ Severe Disabilities and Multiple Disabilities‚ also their causes‚ and the impact of these disabilities
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Self-understanding in high-functioning males with autism spectrum disorders: Relationship with social functioning and theory of mind By Fiona Barbouttis Martin BA (Psych) Grad Dip Sci (Psych) A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Medicine) Centre for Behavioural Sciences in Medicine The University of Sydney August 2008 Preface All of the work described in this thesis was carried out personally by the author under the auspices
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Teachers’ of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder & its Relationship to Academic Instruction Tonya Trepinski Baylor University Introduction As a teacher in the public school system for ten years‚ this researcher has had the privilege of working with students with special needs‚ in particular‚ with students on the autism spectrum. While in the classroom‚ she has observed a disturbing trend that students on the autism spectrum are not being
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“How One Boy With Autism Became BFF With Apple’s Siri” talks about how technology can be helpful for todays autistic generations by not only help them develop communications skills but help them learn how to improve how they should enunciate words. The target audience for this article can be the general public and people trying to find ways to stop the communication obstacles that autism creates. In this article‚ the speaker discusses a child by the name of Gus who has autism. He slurs his words
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ON CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE OF CHILDREN WITH AUTISM (CWA) Mansura Akter 4th year‚ B.Sc. in Occupational Therapy The University of Dhaka Session: 2006-2007 BHPI‚ CRP‚ Savar‚ Dhaka-1343 Bangladesh Health Professions Institute (BHPI) [The academic Institute of CRP] BHPI‚ CRP‚ Chapain‚ Savar Dhaka-1343 Bangladesh March‚ 2011 Teachers’ perceptions about the effects of Comprehensive therapy on classroom performance of Children with Autism (CWA) By Mansura Akter 4th year‚ B.Sc
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Introduction section of the PEERS book written by Dr. Laugeson touched on some topics and brief descriptions about how to teach social skills training to young adults with autism spectrum disorder and other social challenges. The writer also writes about each of the components that should be included in the daily lessons. Besides‚ the author describes briefly some teaching methods and also behavior management techniques that coaches can do in order to teach young adults the necessary skills to maintain
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the situation of teaching children with autism from the perspective of special education teachers in Hamilton‚ New Zealand and Chengdu City‚ China.In order to understand how the special education teachers perceived the role of teaching autistic children from their viewpoint we used a framework to analyze autistic teaching. In this framework‚ we divided our topic -teaching children with autism into six parts: 1)the value of autism teaching;2)the aims of autism teaching;3)the skills and manners of teaching;4)teaching
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Ecological Model Paper: Aspergers Syndrome Treyci Robinson SWRK 501 (19156) October 6‚ 2014 Prof. Allen Lipscomb Table of Content Abstract 3 Introduction 4 Symptoms 5 Implications of Development 6 Conclusion 9 References 10 Implications of development for toddlers with Asperger’s syndrome. Asperger ’s syndrome is a developmental disorder associated with Autism that is characterized by preoccupations
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characteristics as Autism. This paper will review the definition and characteristics of Asperger’s Syndrome‚ what assessments are available to diagnose Asperger’s Syndrome‚ and what particular children are most often diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. Asperger’s Syndrome was not made an official disorder until 1994. Asperger’s was discovered by Hans Asperger in the 1940’s. Asperger’s Syndrome is different from autism and is under the category of Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Asperger has a long
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASDs) Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are a group of developmental disabilities that can cause significant social‚ communication and behavioral challenges. People with ASDs handle information in their brain differently than other people. ASDs are "spectrum disorders." That means ASDs affect each person in different ways‚ and can range from very mild to severe. People with ASDs share some similar symptoms‚ such as problems with social interaction. But there are differences
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