Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder which manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of ...
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Teach autistic kids in smaller groups
3 Jul 2009, 1731 hrs IST, ANI A new study suggests that children with autism need to be taught in smaller groups. “Sensory integration dysfunction has long been speculated to be a core component of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) but there has been precious little hard empirical evidence to support this notion,” said Dr. John J. Foxe, Professor of Neuroscience at CCNY. “Viewing a speaker’s articulatory movements can greatly improve a listener’s ability to understand spoken words, and this is especially the case under noisy environmental conditions,” he added. Foxe said that children with autism may become distressed in large classroom settings simply because they are unable to understand basic speech, if the environment is sufficiently noisy. Multisensory speech system develops relatively slowly across the childhood years, and that considerable tuning of this system continues to occur even into early adolescence. However, autistic kids lag almost 5 years behind typically developing children in this crucial multisensory ability. Foxe said that further studies might result in advances in the understanding of ASD, and the communication abilities of individuals with autism by identifying the neural mechanisms that are at the root of these multisensory deficits. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com... Posted on 07/03/09, 08:07 pm |
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Makes sense for my son, Seanny. However Brett seems to do better in a regular ed classroom. I think it should be case by case. Every child is different. 
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It really is individual. I work in a school and we have some in a regular class with an aide. I know one boy who is in a smaller resource classroom but only for behavior and social skills -his regular ed teacher supplies all of his academic work. Some kids ay be able to maintain in a larger class environment but then they go home and release all of their pent up frustrations and that is not a good thing. From ymexperience it really has alot to do with how they are taught in addition to the setting. If you are interestd, I have written some articles on that at http://dobanautismpage.blogspot.com/
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