AUTIS

What it is?

Autism means a developmental

disability significantly affecting verbal
and nonverbal communication and
social interaction, generally evident
before age three that adversely affects
a child's educational performance.
Asperger's Syndrome- a severe
developmental disorder characterized
by major difficulties in social
interaction, and restricted and unusual
patterns of interest and behavior. A
person who is high on the Autism

Population
Educator Resources

About 1% of the world population

Autism Speaks

has autism
spectrum disorder.
Organization
Prevalence in the United States is
National
estimated
at 1 in 68 births.
Texas Council
on Autism
Autism is the fastest-growing
and Pervasive
developmental disability.
Developmental
Disorders
ASD is
reported to occur in all
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racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic
groups.
Autism Society
Central

ASD
is
almost 5 times more
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common
among boys (1 in 42) than
Heart of Texas Autism
among girls (1 in 189).
Network Texas
Organization

If they can't learn the way we teach,

we teach the way they learn
Education Services
O. Ivar Lovaas

Applied Behavior
Analysis (ABA)
Development IndividualDifference relationship
based (DIR)
The Education of ASD
and Related
Communication
Handicapped Children
Characteristics
(TEACCH)
Verbal Behavior
Therapy
Inappropriate
laughing
or
giggling
No real fear of dangers
Apparent insensitivity to pain
Apprehension to physical
touch
May avoid eye contact
May prefer to be alone
Sustained, unusual, or
repetitive play
Uneven physical or verbal
skills
Difficulty in expressing needs,
Inappropriate attachment to
objects
Insistence on sameness
Echoes words or phrases

Evidence-Based
Instructional
Classroom Accommodations
Strategies
1. Setting: break assignments into
1. small
Prompting:
teaching
strategy
sections,
provide
an areainof
which
learnerswhere
are assisted
in
the
classroom
the student
some
way
to
complete
a
task
or
can retreat in times of high
activity.
stimulation
2.
Reinforcement:
increases
2. Timing:
allow extra
time forthe
likelihood
of
a
behavior
completing exams/assignments,
happening
again.
Strengths
allow
student
to enter class
3. minutes
Functional
Behavioral
Assessment
before everyone
else
Honesty
(FBA):
systematic
way
of
does and leave minutes before.
determining
the
Direct
Communication
3. Organization:
giveunderlying
clear & concise
function/purpose
of firm
a behavior so
Attention
to detailestablish
directions,
thatto
anbeeffective
plan
Tendency
logical
expectations
and intervention
consequences
can
be
developed.
4. Visual/Interest:
Less
concerned in whatincorporate
4. students
Self-Management:
interest
inmethod
lessons,by
otherswhich
may think
of
them
learners
are taught towhen
incorporate
pictures/visuals
Independent
thinkers
monitor
and
take
data onsubjects.
their
teaching vocab., abstract

Average to above
intelligence
Loyalty
Nonjudgmental listening
Often highly skilled in a
particular area