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Gail Lynn
There are a number of educational interventions designed for children with autism, interventions that help children to develop academically, socially, and physically. These educational interventions focus on developing joint attention, improving functional communication, instilling academic knowledge, improving cognitive skills, reducing disruptive behavior, and instill overall learning skills in the autistic children that will enable them to develop on their own. There are dozens of educational intervention programs for children with autism, and many of them have similar features: - The measurement of the progress made with the intervention, with modifications made to the plan as needed. - A structured plan that provides autistic children with a simple routine and defined physical boundaries in order to reduce the distraction of the child. - Interaction with peers that are neurotypical or normal. - Involvement of the family in the intervention programs, which includes training the parents to help the child develop when at home. - A small number of children per teacher to ensure focus and quality attention given to each student.Intense courses that involves 25 or more hours every week for 12 months of every year. - Intervention that begins early and does not require a specific diagnosis on which autism spectrum disorder the child has. There are a few types of educational interventions for children with autism: Applied Behavioral Analysis Pivotal response therapy helps children to develop the key areas of their life in order to help them to be able to develop on their own later in life. Aversion therapy uses mild electric shocks to help children avoid negative behavior, though this therapy is highly controversial. Lovaas is one of the main forms of applied behavioral analysis, and it focuses on teaching the principles of stimulus, response, and reward to help autistic children learn to gauge their actions on their own. Communication Interventions Augmentative and alternative communication methods help children develop their communication and social skills, with speech therapy being one of the most common AAC methods. Picture Exchange Communication System and SCERTS are two of the more common ones, and both of these focus on helping autistic children to communicate more easily. Relationship Based Developmental Models Floortime/DIR is one of the most commonly used relationship based developmental models, and the six stages of the education intervention helps children to develop their interaction and social skills. The PLAY Project helps parents to learn how to train their children in the important developmental skills, and Son-Rise is designed to help children willingly interact with others. The TEACCH program uses physical environments to help children develop, and sensory integration use physical contact to try and help the children to learn. Music therapy allows autistic children to express themselves with music, while animal-assisted therapy uses the presence of animals to help the child develop relationships with others. All of these special education programs have their pros and cons, and you would do well to do research before signing your autistic child up for one or more of these programs.
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