Autism Spectrum Disorder Case Study

This assignment is about Autism Spectrum Disorder and the implications for education provision. Furthermore will briefly describe a resource or strategy for teaching students with Autism and how we are going to use that resource considering a particular student/s. moreover will discuss how the strategy will the students to develop certain development area and how it will effective to develop that particular area.

Nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder is not a single disorder, but a spectrum of closely-related disorders with a shared core of symptoms. According to Boyse (2008) ASD is a category that includes five different disorders of development, each with differing severities and patterns. Different disorders of development, …show more content…
However all the children may have all the characteristics or some. According to Smith (2007) stated that characteristics of autism can present themselves in a wide variety of combinations, from mild to severe. Characteristics found in ASD children have seemed in early ages. However, they may improve slowly as the child develops. Usually children with autism have deficiencies in both verbal and non-verbal communication. Their language develops slowly or not at all and they have very short attention spans. They often lack social skills and will spend time alone, rather than with others. In more severe cases, children have unusual reactions to physical senses such as being overly sensitive to touch or under responsive to pain. Most commonly, children with autism are lack of imagination and copy other's ideas, rather than initiate their …show more content…
PECS are used to communicate a request, a thought. Can use at home or in school. The main goal of PECS is to teach with autism a fast self-initiating functional communication system. PECS can be used as single word systems to describe something a child wants and generalized over many situations. According to Bondy and Frost (n.d.) children are taught to exchange a single picture for a desired item and eventually to construct picture-based sentences and use a variety of attributes in their request. PECS assist children with making choices between two or more favourite activities or items, and may also assist them in describing their feelings, by choosing a mood card such as a sad face, to describe how they are feeling. Once children are capable of using PECS to create full sentences, children are capable of communicating in a variety of ways with a variety of people, using their PECS

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