Characteristics of ASD Power Point .ppt

Suggested activity: Start with a slide showing an optical illusion to demonstrate that people see may attend to different stimuli when viewing something * Consider all of the relevant social cues to which one must attend to during social interaction During language instruction student may selectively respond to visual or auditory cues resulting in problems with generalization Consider not attending to a traffic light * Automatic Teller machine machine Personal Identification Number-Number * * * * Ask a participant to read this statement and then follow up with a comprehension question. Discuss that some students may demonstrate hyperlexia. * * Do they see value of doing if they already know it. Know what to do vs. Application (Hidden Curriculum) * * The instructions are as follows: Ask?participants to write two sentence?about (what they have learned so?far...or what they are going to?do this weekend...or?what they have done so far today...in other words anything ? When they start to write, say, Oh, I am sorry, I forgot to tell you that you have to use this alphabet (and put the alphabet up on the screen; dont give them a desk copy of the alphabet because it is usually more difficult to do far point copying when you dont know the letters than near point). ? After a couple of minutes, I explain why we do this simulation; imagine how hard it is for a student that doesnt have good proprioception (knowing where their extremities are in relationship to space; difficulty with their tactile system (not knowing the letters OR how hard or soft to push on the writing tool); when you have sensory processing difficulties, the information you receive may be altered secondary to how you perceive through your?sense of vision, touch, movement, smell, and taste.? Difficulty in the senses leads to difficulty with?visualizing, planning, and executing?tasks which require motor planning, sequencing, and execution.? * Tantrum vs. Meltdown- Meltdown is when behavior is beyond th