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Effective Strategies for Teaching Students with Autism
Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 1pm / Eastern Time
Summer Live Chat: Summer Live Chat: Communication Characteristics of Autism
Presented by Diane VanDriesen, Director of Wawa House Services for the Eden Family of
Services
Sponsored by
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Communication Characteristics of Students
with Autism
Learning Characteristics of Students with Autism
• Lack of imitation skills• Difficulty with generalization• Splinter skills• Little or no response to social reinforcement• Inconsistent response pattern• High distractibility• Lack of incidental learning• Lack of initiation
Language Characteristics of Students with Autism• History of having language then losing it• Oral motor dysfunction• Apraxia• Echolalia• Acting as if deaf• Preservative Speech• Comprehension deficits• Jargon
Social Characteristics of Autism• Limited or no interest in interacting with people• Limited use of nonverbal behaviors such as eye
contact, point, or facial expression• No sharing of interests• No imaginative or social imitative play• Limited or no signs of attachment to people
Situational Cuese.g. child hangs up coat upon entering the classroom
What is the individual responding to?
Word Emphasis/ Positional CuesE.g., child responds to the last word from a whole utterance
Linguistic CuesE.g., child responds correctly to the utterance without any context or reference
Use of Language
• Lack of gestures• Lack of social imitative play• Impaired use of nonverbal behavior• Difficulty initiating or sustaining a conversation• Difficulty self-generating language
Augmentative Communication Systems: Considerations• Manual Sign Language/Baby Signs• Picture Exchange Communication (PECS)• Voice Output systems• Object Boards
Functional Communication Strategies
Functional Communication Strategies
Deficit Strategies and treatment
Lack of gestures • Teach a functional point
• Provide communicative
temptations
Comprehension • Assess comprehension
level
• Use sign language/visuals
• Teach to level
Deficit Strategies and treatment
Cognitive Issues
• Teach curriculum
systematically
• Use Discrete Trial
Teaching
Oral Motor Issues/ Apraxia
• Focus on all issues
• Teach imitation skills
• Use shaping procedures
Deficit Strategies and treatment
Mutism • Augmentative or alternative
communication
Echolalia • Determine function
• Teach appropriate response
Difficulty with social language
• Scripting
• Role play
• Token systems
Communicative Temptations (Prizant and Wetherby 1985)• Initiate a familiar and an unfamiliar social game with the
child until the child expresses pleasure in the game, then stop and wait.
• Open a jar of bubbles, blow the bubbles, then close the jar tightly. Hand the closed jar to the child.
• Blow up a balloon and slowly deflate it. Hand the deflated balloon to the child or hold the deflated balloon up to your mouth and wait.
• Hold a food item/toy that the child dislikes out near the child to offer it.