Mainstreaming the autistic child 7 Articles

by Jennifer Smith

MAINSTREAMING THE AUTISTIC CHILD Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder which may affect a child's social skills and communication skills. The disorder may also interfere with motor and language skills depending ...read more

by JoAnn Powell

Mainstreaming, the inclusion of a child with a documented disability such as autism in a regular classroom setting, is one of the main proponents of our educational system. Access to a free, appropriate, public education ...read more

by Vicki Phipps

The term mainstreaming is used as a means for achieving whatever level of inclusion in the regular classroom is appropriate for the student. Mainstreaming the severely Autistic child into the regular classroom, even with ...read more

by Janine Honour

Problems with autistic children in school Chances are an autistic child who is in mainstream education will not require special education, which means they are unlikely to have obvious learning disabilities. But that sa...read more

by Shelly Mcrae

As the educational pundits contemplate mainstreaming autistic children, they express the debate as if it only had two sides: to mainstream or not to mainstream. But like the mind of an autistic child, the question is fa...read more

by Jem Gedwing

Mainstreaming an Autistic Child. For the Parents of a child diagnosed with Autism or an Autistic Spectrum Disorder, including Aspergers Syndrome, pondering the first day of School will always be a source of worry and an...read more

by Judy Harkins

Autism in the Mainstream Autism is a very difficult disability to work with. Each child has a different degree or a different form of the disability. First, I don't believe Autism is always able to work within the mai...read more