Teaching Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

There are so many ways to instruct a child with autism. Children are taught in special education classrooms, regular ed classrooms, or sometimes they spend their day divided between the two.

Currently, there is momentum for “mainstreaming” or full “inclusion” of children with autism or Asperger’s syndrome into regular education classes. There is a growing realization that it may not always be in the best interests of these students to be grouped together in classes because they need opportunities to learn age appropriate social skills from their classmates. Many of these children are bright and need access to the same academic rigor of their typically developing peers.