Why homeschooling is a great option for children with ASD
Here is a list of some key developmental milestones that typical children develop between the ages of birth to five. These are the foundations upon which meaningful cognitive, communication, social and behavioral development is built.
1. Learns that actions can be coordinated with others, but not controlled by them; and that coordinating actions with others is better than acting alone
2. Repairs breakdowns in coordination with partners
3. Interprets and uses non verbal communication to have meaningful exchanges with partners, including facial expression, gestures, and voice
4. Communicates with partners mainly for sharing experiences and learning about how others interpret the world
5. Monitors interactions to ensure partners have understood what has been communicated
6. Enjoys being with partners that change their actions and routines; does not like doing the same thing over and over again
7. Takes turns appropriately and at the correct time in a wide variety of interactions
8. Understand that perception is dependent on position and person’s unique experiences
9. Recognizes that everyone can have different perceptions of the same item or event, and that all perceptions are equally important
10. Pretends on his/her own with a partner, and can coordinate his/her imagination with partner’s imagination
11. Understands that friendship is consensual, acknowledges others’ similarities and differences and desires to be liked and accepted
12. Develops more than one solution to a problem, and more than one way to approach tasks
13. Thinks about actions before taking them, and can determine what actions are appropriate for the current setting
14. Understands teasing, offers of support, and degrees of agreement
15. Accurately interprets when others are upset, as well as regulates the degree of emotion tied to different experiences
16. Transitions with little preparation
17. Carries out familiar routines and tasks from memory
18. Uses the knowledge of negative consequences to adjust behavior
19. Takes pride in accomplishing challenging task
20. Understand and regulates own emotions based on the current situations, and recognizes that others may have similar or different reactions to an event based on their personal experiences
As you can see these are the developmental foundations neurotypical children come to school with whereas children with autism do not. So when children with autism come to school they are already 5 years behind however, they are being asked, just as their typically developing peers are, to manage the school setting’s academic and social demands but unlike their typically developing peers, they are also trying to survive in the setting without the benefit of the developmental milestones their peers had prior to starting school.
This is one of the reasons incompetence creates behaviors from the child because they feel absolutely lost in this situation!!
Relationship development intervention fills in those milestone gaps.. ( remediating behaviors)..with a detailed, step by step curriculum to remove all the developmental obstacles in Autism!!
Kathy Darrow
Christine Poulton
Autism Remediation consultants for RDI (R)
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