Safeguarding Children and Young People with Autistic Spectrum Disorder The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of current provisions for safeguarding children and young people with Autism‚ whilst paying attention to proposed and current legislation and reports/ policy initiatives from a UK and Welsh perspectives. The rationale for this paper is because the writer has a nine year old autistic child. All children’s welfare is underpinned by legislation‚ leaving parents and adults
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Running head: AQUATIC THERAPY: Aquatic Therapy: An Effective Physical Therapy for Children with Autism Aquatic Therapy: An Effective Physical Therapy for Children with Autism Water has been used for rehabilitative‚ rejuvenation and healing purposes for over 100 years. (Irion‚ 1997). Aquatic therapy has been accepted as a beneficial physical therapy treatment. However‚ the primary use of aquatic therapy (Fragala-Pinkham‚ Haley‚ & O’Neill‚ 2008) has been for those patients that have had
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It could also be too hot or cold‚ too crowded or too many objects in the vicinity. These can all be barriers to effective communication. Describe how you reduce the barriers to communication when communicating with individuals with Autism?. When working with an individual I could adapt the environment to try and improve the effectiveness of communication‚ for example adjusting the lighting or creating a quiet area so that we are away from noisy activity or distractions. I could also
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Mathias‚ Nielsen‚ Annette‚ Eriksen‚ Mette‚ Goossens‚ Luc Source: Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders‚ Feb2010‚ Vol. 40 Issue 2‚ p218-226 The present study investigates whether adolescents with ASD are more likely to report feeling lonely than typically developing adolescents. Additionally‚ the study investigates the relationship between loneliness and perceived social support. 39 adolescent boys with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) were examined for Loneliness and perceived social
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Autism and Special Education Policy in Mexico John P. Tuman‚ Danielle Roth-Johnson‚ Dana Lee Baker‚ and Jennifer Vecchio In recent years‚ a great deal of scholarship has examined the adequacy of special education and other support services for children with disabilities in the U.S. and in other industrialized states. By contrast‚ there has been comparatively little study of services for children with disabilities in developing countries. In this paper‚ we attempt to bridge this gap in the literature
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Journal Review 2 More than 3.5 million Americans live with an autism spectrum disorder (autism speaks 2014). Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a general term for a group of complex disorders that affect neurodevelopment. Social skills deficits are one of the three core impairments found in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and are often considered to be the primary feature of ASDs (Kanner‚ 1943; Sevin‚ Knight‚ & Braud‚ 2007; Volkmar‚ Cohen‚ Bregman‚ Hooks‚ & Stevenson‚ 1989; Walters
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but is still really intelligent. Autism can be beneficial to autistic people because it can help them be more confident and express themselves however they please. They understand the differences between them and others and they don’t allow people’s thoughts and opinions to sway them. An example of this would be they are creative with their thoughts‚ they like to challenge themselves‚ and they see each situation differently than the average human being. Autism can be beneficial for autistic people
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Vaccines really cause Autism? The myth that vaccines causes autism began in 1998 when a study wrongly linked autism with vaccines‚ the author of this claim lost his medical license‚ but the idea was still strong. In fact vaccines don’t cause autism‚ but in reality they help to develop immunities to many viruses‚ and to stop the spread of them too. How this myth did is still so popular? The answer is easy and it’s that many parents are scared that their children may get autism‚ so they prefer a sick
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particular attention from publics‚ that is‚ autism. The autism is a serious condition which appears in childhoods and it can persist throughout a person’s whole life and it effects an individual’s social interaction‚ communication and behavior badly. Unfortunately‚ the number of autistic children in United States has increased sharply from 1/3000 in mid-1990s to 1/150 recently (Rodier‚ 2010). Because of the dramatic increasing of people with autism in this several decades‚ experts were working
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The rate of Autism in our society is rapidly growing with time. More and more children are being diagnosed with this exceptionality. Autism is classified as a developmental disability that results from a disorder in the central nervous system. It causes impairments to social interaction‚ communication‚ imagination‚ interests‚ and activities. Most of the issues based around Autism are controversial because it is still not known what the cause of Autism is! Researchers strive every day to find why
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