Teaching children diagnosed with Autism

Autism is a unique disorder which exhibits itself as cognitive, social, sensory, and behavioral deficits in the autistic person. Each individual will have a unique set of deficits in these areas which, when combined, result in a set of behaviors and a learning style distinctive to that individual. These deficits often include limited and disordered language skills, unusual sensory processing, difficulty combining and integrating ideas, difficulty interpreting the underlying meaning or relationship of events they experience, problems processing multiple sensory stimuli, and resistance to change and unpredictability (Mesibov & Shea, 1996, p. 342). The goals will also affect the cur

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sroom during physical education, directed art activities, free-play, music, lunch, and recess times. For some autistic individuals even these settings may prove to be over-stimulating and may need to take place under more controlled situations. Children with autism are a special case within the special services category of student education; for these children full inclusion has not been shown to be more effective than the special education classroom and in some cases may undermine a child's ability to learn (Mesibov & Shea, 1996, p. 337). A primary difficulty of working with autistic individuals is their limited ability to communicate and to understand communication. Sensory deficits are common in autistic children. One aspect of a sensory problem experienced by 40 percent of autistic children is a hyper-sensitivity to sound (Rimland & Edelson, 1995, p. 61). Hyperacusis is defined as "consistently exaggerated or inappropriate responses or complaints of uncomfortable loudness to sounds that are neither intrinsically threatening nor uncomfortably loud to a typical person" (Bettison, 1996, 362). Hearing anomalies have been recognized as typical of autism for decades although they have not been the subject of much research or
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