Special educational needs

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  • Special educational needs (part 2)
    • Causes of ASD
      • Biological: Rivito found a 96% concordance rate in MZ twins
      • Cognitive: Lack of theory of mind, beliefs we re able to form about the intentions of others.
    • Effects of ASD
      • Difficulity interacting socially and making friends.
      • Lack empathy so often considered rude and insensitive.
      • May suffer from loneliness and low self esteem from lack of of friendships
      • Obsessive traits can be misunderstood
    • Intergration VS segration
      • Integration: increase social interactions, broader opportunities and better understanding of social rules
        • Curriculum may been too inflexible, staff less likely to have been trained on the disorder.
    • Acceleration VS enrichment
      • Accceleration
        • moving ups years accelerating through the school process
        • May become isolated but allows intellectual development
      • Enrichment
        • Type 1 activities- general exploratory, Type 2 group training and type 3 indivdual small group investigation
        • Type 1: expose to hobbies, Type2: promote problem solving, Type1 and 2: top 20%  and type3: an area on interest. top 3%

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