Autism is a developmental disability caused by neurological dysfunction. It affects the way a person understands and responds to the world, how they hear, see, feel, sense, perceive and interpret ever...
Autism and Evidence-based Practice
This document represents a remarkable collaboration by a diverse group of stakeholders all committed to a single goal – improving the lives of children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorders. The ...
Rain Man In the movies things are portrayed in ways that are supposed to make the movie sell, which means that movies are not always accurate. The movie Rain Man was about a man and his brother, who h...
Autism is a widely known genetic disorder that affects a large number of people, 5 in every 400 children in Australia have the disorder and quite often show any sings of it until they are at the ages ...
Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Theories of Vygotsky
Research over the past decade has acknowledged the impacts of characteristics and life-functioning for individuals on the autism spectrum. Models of support or interventions strategies have been resea...
Introduction of Psychology, Coon describes the word Autism by focusing on autistics only focus on music, drawing, prime numbers, license plates, TV commercials and etc. Dustin Hoffman’s role in the ...
Case Study of Child with Autism
I became increasingly interested in Autism since I had the opportunity to work alongside kids with Autism this summer. Seeing how their minds worked and how they processed information was astounding t...
Educating Students with Diverse Abilities – Autism
1. 0 Introduction: Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are one of the most common disabilities teachers will face in the classroom. Approximately 1 in 160 children are being diagnosed with having ASD, wit...
Hippotherapy for Children with Autism
I learned about Hippotherapy about six years ago when I had to get rid of my horse (I couldn’t afford my horse and the expense of owning a house on my own) I had talked to another horse owner at the...
Immunizations and Autism Seven years ago I took my son to his doctor appointment to receive his one year immunization shots; little did I know that my little boy would never be the same again. I was f...