What is meant by autism learning skills?
There are several methods through which we learn: Through seeing
(visually) Hearing (auditory), Touching or manipulating an object
(kinesthetically or 'hands-on' learning).
An example of these would be, looking at a picture book or reading a
textbook, this would be visual learning. Listening to a c.d., or going
to a lecture this would be learning through hearing…and pressing buttons
to determine how to operate a DVD involves learning kinesthetically,
through touch and feel.
Mostly we learn through two or more of these learning skills. How we learn will determine how ell we do at school.
Most mainstream school adopt all of these learning methods, we
visually learn through reading books and texts, we learn through
listening to out teachers and we practice tasks to learn.
With autistic children they will nearly always be visual learners.
Some autistic children will also be kinesthetic learners and may well
benefit form their teacher or helper actually guiding their hand while
they undertake tasks.
Therefore, it is important that a teacher assess each autistic child
in the class to determine which kind of learning skill they prefer. The teacher can then adapt the teaching style to suit the autistic child's need's and build on their strengths.
However one very important thing to remember when assessing an
autistic child is their need for repetition and sameness. Keeping this
in mind when setting lessons will be of benefit.
A visual timetable should always be in place for the autistic student to refer too.
As with a normally developing child autism learning skills, can be
enhanced by following these simple rules. Another good idea is to set up
autism social skills stories. These help keep the autistic child on
task, and work as an excellent tool in helping teachers explain why,
what and how to their autistic students.
Using autism social skills stories will benefit the autistic student
as they will encompass all autism learning skills, they can be read,
auditory, they have appropriate pictures and images plus some text,
visual and they can be handles kinesthetic, or used as a visual aid with
attachable pictures etc…
…However you decide to use them they will nevertheless prove to be a valuable asset to autism learning skills.
To obtain school related autism social skills stories that can be
downloaded quickly and effortlessly and are all in printable format
please visit: www.autismsocialstories.com/school For all other autism
social stories visit: our other sites
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