Autism social skills teaching

Autism is a life long developmental conditionmissing in autistic children and social skills need to
affecting the brain of the individual.be taught directly.
Autism spectrum disorder has various degrees:Generally normally developing children will want to
Low functioning autism, where the autisticplease and will watch their parents, peers and
individual may have other problems such as littleother people in general to see what they do and
or no speech, seizures and will normally havewill mimic these social skills.
educational difficulties.With autistic children this inquisitiveness and desire
To asperger syndrome where the individual willto watch others is missing, therefore making
have average or above intelligence, speech maysocial skills harder to master. This is where you as
still be slow in progression. This set of individualsa parent, caregiver, or autistic educators will need
are often referred to as the little professor orto help; autism social skills deficits can be helped
geeks!effectively using autism social skills stories.
All autistic individuals on the autism spectrumWhat are autism social skills stories and how will
disorder scales from low functioning autismthey help?
through to asperger syndrome will all have inSimple they are used widely with tremendous
various degrees the triad of autism symptoms:results. Research suggests parents, caregivers
Social deficitsand autistic educators have found great relief in
Communication deficitsteaching social skills to autistic children once autism
Imagination and interaction deficitssocial skills stories have been implemented.
The triad of autism developmental deficits theShort yet visually rich using appropriate language
autism symptoms will always be present; but canautism social skills stories are used affectively as
be helped using autism resources such as sociala tool for teaching and re-enforcing important
skills stories, PECS, Flash cards etc…social skills and behaviors to autistic individuals.
One of the major areas of difficulty in autism isGiving key focus to the vital points they will assist
social skills deficits. Most normally developingthe autistic individual to make sense and learn
children will learn social skills through watchingsocial skills and behaviors appropriately.
other people and their environment. This ability is