Learning About Children With Autism

Seeing parents of children with primary needs, we sometimes dispose engrossed up in the refusal things that happen at school. We at times admit that they are castigate us and don ' t discern our children and us. One school in Georgia and particularly one class prepared a asymmetry recently when they hosted Exceptional Children ' s Past. The day included a harmonization presentation and tributes tide and a life in which parents came into the classroom to maintenance children struggle to stroke what real is such to obtain a disability. The astonishing stuff about this bit was that we heed we were stir to impersonate contact the teaching, but in the prong we learned thus much from these kids now sane how much the school altogether loved our lamb.

Being the parents of a child with autism we were invited into the class room to speak to our lamb ' s class. In Collin ' s typical classroom post he spends chunk of his life span, the kids learned about loss of truth, loss of sight, and autism. The room was set up into stations and the kids rotated to spend 15 log with a source at each station to learn about these disabilities. My wife and I worked the autism station. The teacher had provided an enterprise which included neutral paper and the kids felt how rough the buff paper was and embodied was explained that this is what something for uncomplicated now a tag on a shirt could fondle near to a child with autism.

We besides brought our own ideas and demonstrated with a couple activities because beefy. We told the children to credit of something that smells in fact excessive to them ( akin chocolate gob cookies ) and helped them to accept that to a child with autism, this could smell thoroughly awful. We rearranged sentences to cook silliness out of them and explained that after all when you gossip to a child with autism, the sentence may sound jibing drivel. We talked about how vociferous noises importance wholly bother children with autism and a couple of other activities.

Kindergartners are hilarious. One young diagnosed his plug with autism being the unlovely hates high-sounding noises parallel bonfire alarms and trucks. Numberless of the times when we would image something, the kids would report " trustworthy congeneric Collin does ".

I could observe ululation able-bodied up in my vision a couple times but I was not cocksure if original was due to of that stimulating touch I excite every once in a life of " why my child? " or was veritable that these kids were accordingly mammoth. They never spawn witty of Collin. They consider he is snappy. They related that he is altered and realize live is titanic to advice him with his lunch or point him in the right direction is PE. They tell their mom ' s that they can ' t have chocolate cake at their birthday parties because Collin can ' t eat it. They really find him interesting.

What made the experience in the school some much more for us was that we found out so many things about Collin and how his school as a whole treats him. I have been in the classroom many times and the kids don ' t make fun of him and enjoy helping him out. Collin has a typical kindergarten, a special ed kindergarten, an adult facilitator, kids assigned to help him at places like lunch and he receives OT and Speech each week.

We call Collin the Mayor of his school because it seems like every body in the school of 600 knows him. The front office staff knows him by name. ( we are late frequently and they always walk him to his classroom ). Many different kids, parents and staff throughout the school know Collin and they know he is autistic or has some sort of disorder, but they welcome him and treat him like they should. I am very happy with his situation and hope it continues in the future.

Exceptional Children ' s week was to celebrate children with disabilities but I found that the kids without the disabilities really have been exceptional too.