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Autism social skills teaching

Autism is a life long developmental condition affecting the brain of the individual.

Autism spectrum disorder has various degrees: Low functioning autism, where the autistic individual may have other problems such as little or no speech, seizures and will normally have educational difficulties.

To asperger syndrome where the individual will have average or above intelligence, speech may still be slow in progression. This set of individuals are often referred to as the little professor or geeks!

All autistic individuals on the autism spectrum disorder scales from low functioning autism through to asperger syndrome will all have in various degrees the triad of autism symptoms:

Social deficits

Communication deficits

Imagination and interaction deficits

The triad of autism developmental deficits the autism symptoms will always be present; but can be helped using autism resources such as social skills stories, PECS, Flash cards etc…

One of the major areas of difficulty in autism is social skills deficits. Most normally developing children will learn social skills through watching other people and their environment. This ability is missing in autistic children and social skills need to be taught directly.

Generally normally developing children will want to please and will watch their parents, peers and other people in general to see what they do and will mimic these social skills.

With autistic children this inquisitiveness and desire to watch others is missing, therefore making social skills harder to master. This is where you as a parent, caregiver, or autistic educators will need to help; autism social skills deficits can be helped effectively using autism social skills stories.

What are autism social skills stories and how will they help?

Simple they are used widely with tremendous results. Research suggests parents, caregivers and autistic educators have found great relief in teaching social skills to autistic children once autism social skills stories have been implemented.

Short yet visually rich using appropriate language autism social skills stories are used affectively as a tool for teaching and re-enforcing important social skills and behaviors to autistic individuals.

Giving key focus to the vital points they will assist the autistic individual to make sense and learn social skills and behaviors appropriately.

For immediate download of these autism resources and FREE report on how to implement autism social skills stories visit:

www.autismsocialstories.com

OR www.autismsocialstories.org.uk

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