Teaching Children

With Autism

By B

renda Heavin, Leslie

Fentiman,

Rochelle Birk, &

Valerie Doran

AUTISMS FIRST CHILD

• Donald Gray Tripplett• 77 years old• Name musical notes as being played• Multiply large numbers in his head• Case 1, 1943

AUTISM TODAY

• Autism: more hear of today

• Rate increasing

• No cure

• Teachers need to know differentiated instruction and research based strategies

Discrete Trial

• Teaches skills in smaller increments

• Introduced 1st in isolation, then add distractors

• Perform maintenance on mastered skills

Errorless

• Limits incorrect response in an instructional situation• Errorless minimizes the number of errors• Decreases errors in future trials• Reduces frustration in students

Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)

• Starts with single pictureexchange for a

preferred item

• Ends with using cards to communicate in full sentences

TEACCH

• Looks at underlying reasons for behavior

• Helps with communication skills

Floortime/DIR

• Actions are purposeful

• Child directed

• Conjunction with therapies

Mapping

• Visual strategy• Helps students understand how their actions lead to predetermined outcomes• Good decisions lead to rewards• Bad decisions lead to consequences

WHY THIS TOPIC?

• Likely have children in classrooms with ASD

• Need for knowledge

• Recognize what is important

• Guarantee success for student