In ABA (autism) therapy they teach children skills by breaking them down into small steps. And after each success they get immediate small rewards, i.e. one M&M. This encourages them to try for the next success. As a teacher I would print off a chart where the student gets a sticker...
Many autistic children have intensely focused interests, and when theseinterestsare included in their learning, it can greatly enhance their motivation. Modifying lesson plans to include these interests can turn education into passion, making a significant difference in a child’s education. For example...
Besides, children who have pragmatic speech disorders, i.e. the inability to maintain conversations in an active social context, come to the speech therapists of the Govorika Center. And evennon-verbal communicative problems, such as difficulty in maintaining eye contact or limited gesticulation a...
Two studies were conducted to better understand how children with intellectual disabilities (ID) empathize with the feelings of others during social intera
autistic children or adults to make eye contact canworsen their cognitive functionand may not assist them in social interaction like it assists neurotypical individuals. For this reason, using eye contact as the only way to determine someone's confidence, kindness, or trustworthiness can be ...
People tend to diagnoseautismwith really specific check-box descriptions, but in reality, it's a whole variation as to what we're like. For instance, my little brother, he's very severely autistic. He's nonverbal. He can't talk at all. But I love to talk. People often associate auti...
What about children who have one or more blind parents? How is their nonverbal behavior different from a child of seeing parents? Children who are born to blind parents experience a level of adaptation that research shows is almost immediate. ...
Modern medicine alleviates more pain and suffering for children than ever in world history — everything from removing an appendix, to hernias, to fixing broken bones and orthopedic problems, to cancer. Without these fixes, children can suffer socially and emotionally as well as physically. But ...
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Tatiana moved to Texas with her husband, also a physicist. They both teach at Texas A&M, and when Tatiana isn’t in the classroom, she is doing outreach with schoolchildren, amazing them with spinning lights that soon form words, liquid oxygen that...
I remember when I first started to teach, nobody knew how you could have a blind person get up and start teaching. Nobody had the answer to that, like, “Well, I don’t know, you can’t engage in eye contact,” or, “You’re not going to see people raise their hands,” or ...