Before starting work with a child with autism, it is important to look after yourself. The child with autism requires the adults around him to have a great deal of patience, understanding and energy to work effectively. Ensure that you:
• have had sufficient sleep
• are not feeling frustrated or on edge.
At the least, it is critical that you can behave in a calm and relaxed manner. This does not mean that you cannot express your feelings and emotions. They must, however, be related to the child and task at hand and not something extraneous to the situation.
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There has been increasing discussion of autism as being less a disability than a ‘cognitive style’ or ‘learning difference’. Simon Baron-Cohen (2000) cited 12 differences in children with autism to support his argument that “behavior in Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism is not better or worse than that seen in typical development” (p.490); it is simply different.The list includes:
• the child spends more time involved with objects and physical systems than with people
• the child communicates less than other children do
• the child tends to follow his own desires and beliefs rather than paying attention to or being easily influenced by others’ desires and beliefs Read the rest of this entry »
Like any other disease and disorder, patients are commonly being avoided, like a contagious disease. And its getting worst with the first diagnostic from medical consultant which started with negative state of sentences.
Sentences such as lack of, failure to, impairment of, come along with disorder, which might indicated the disease or disorder as mutually exclusive. But between those disorder, especially in patients with Autism, there are strength, the became smart and stand out in some exams.
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Several years ago, parents were confuse with their children who have Autism, previously medical world were shocked with these disorder. Back then the doctors got no idea and no references about these disorder, but now its different, patient with disorder could blend with us.
But what really is Autism, lets have a look at the clinical description of Autism Spectrum Disorder (autism) includes
with its characteristics, below: Read the rest of this entry »