Education Week: Assistive-Tech Connections - 0 views
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facilitate better communication between parents and teachers of children with autism and provide more affordable, higher-quality education to those students.
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Autism, a developmental disorder that can impair communication and social-interaction skills
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struggles in school both academically and socially, forcing schools to find better ways to help them cope.
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This article focuses on children with autism. Children with autism typically have communication and social needs. Technology can assist in the communication needs but the author warns against using technology to teach social skills. This is due to the fact that a computer is not a real person. To teach social skills children need to be interacting with other people. It is all about creating a balance. This reitterates the fact that no child autism or not is the same. Not one thing is going to work for all. Through having this resource and using co-workers, parents, etc... as resources we can better meet the needs of all students. Not one particular learning experience will meet the needs of all students. We as teachers need to vary the methods we use to teach depending on our individual students.