`Visual Teaching Strategies and Autism`

Visual Teaching Strategies and Autism

Autism refers to a number of neuro-developmental diss that affect some parts of the central nervous system (i .e . the brain and nervous system , particularly the way that both verbal and non-verbal information is processed . Autism affects how people understand their world and what is happening around them . Autism is seen as a lifelong disability because there is no known cure . However , children and Adult with autism continue to change and grow and many show dramatic improvement in a range of skills throughout their lives

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features of autism vary in terms of severity . There is considerable variability in the level of cognitive ability within the autism group ranging from high-functioning individuals of normal or superior intelligence to those with a severe intellectual disability . The triad of impairments in autism may also be present in a single person quite differently at different ages . Currently , the idea of a spectrum of autism is widely accepted . This spectrum is referred to in the literature as either Autism Spectrum Dis (ASD ) or a Pervasive Developmental Dis (PDD

Autism affects as many as 19 cases for every 10 ,000 people in the population . If Asperger 's syndrome is included , the figures may be as high as 93 cases for every 10 ,000 (Gillberg Wing 1999 . Autism may occur in isolation or in association with other conditions such as epilepsy , intellectual impairment , cerebral palsy and other specific genetic and developmental diss (Dodd , 2005 ,

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Characteristics of Children with Autism...