Oct 08
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Autism And Theory Of Mind
Teaching affective communication and autism
Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder affecting the brain.
The levels of autism vary from a low level of autism where the person may be non-verbal deficits with more learning running high and Asperger syndrome people will be average or higher IQ.
With Asperger Syndrome we often hear this group of persons referred to man as the rain, little professor or "geek".
The levels of autism varies between individuals, but there will always be a thread in the triad of impairments …
… These are:
deficits social
communication deficits
The imagination and interaction deficits.
ASD affects how each individual processes information and how they grow socially. With autism person will not process information the same way as a person develop normally.
Person autism will have difficulty in communication, being unable to read body language of another people or facial expression the ability to read the mind, the "theory of mind".
Our natural ability to read facial expressions and language the body is a social skill we learn from our environment, peers and parents. This has naturally learned skills is missing autism and social skills should be taught directly.
Autism is a lifelong disability, autism spectrum disorders can not be cured but can be helped with treatments and therapies.
Therefore, education affective communication and autism may be done through the use of autism social skills training in the format of autism social skills stories.
Social skills are stories pictorial events, activities and skills of the autistic person struggles with.
For example, an autistic boy Alex is 6 years old who has difficulty communication, recreation.
Alex is unable to tell the lady what he wants for dinner, lunch and becomes anxious and aggressive when lunch starts.
Alex had a history of social skills to help them understand and repeat the recreation and acquire the social competence.
After a week or two to read the story before the social skills and during recess, Alex quickly learned how to ask for his dinner, and therefore obviously no longer a time constraint related concern for the day. The teachers were happy and so was Alex.
Teaching affective communication, as with the autistic boy described above, can be emotionally obtained with autism social skills stories they have social skills in pictorial images and the text makes it easy to follow and understand.
Autism social skills stories are always written in first person, present tense and the point of view of the autistic person.
To download autism social skills stories visit
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social skills training can be helped and taught using autism resources such as autism social skills stories fom:
www.autismsocialstories.com/blog
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