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Temple Grandin's Emergence

is now known to be neurological. The memory capacity of autistic children develops in a different way from others: in effect, they...

LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT IN AUTISM

Much like autism itself, there are a wide variety of communication skills among children with autism. Some are able to carry on st...

Mamawawa, Sleep, Drug Addiction and Other Issues

the set point assumption: they are inconsistent with eating pressures as they have evolved; predictions have not been confirmed; a...

Antipsychotic Drugs and Autism

psychotropic medications in psychology, in general, and with autism, in particular. This discussion will include movements in psyc...

Addressing the Problem of Behavior in the Classroom

Behavioral problems in the classroom can manifest in relationship to any number of causal factors....

Visual Prompts and Educating Autistic Students

Introduction Autism is a pervasive...

Haddon's "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" - A Phenomenological Perspective

individual humans relate to one another, as well as how cultures and groups relate to one another to establish the construct colle...

The Value of Informal Assessments in Private Therapeutic Practice

diagnose even under the best conditions. This is because there is no totally objective test for autism; a diagnosis requires a var...

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Whole Word Instruction

is an abstract concept that can be interpreted many different ways. The whole word method stems from an understanding of literacy ...

Picture Book on Autism

This book review is on Amanda D. Tourville's My Friend Has Autism, which is illustrated by Kristin Sorra. An informative, sensit...

Temple Grandin and Autism Spectrum Disorders

In a paper of twelve pages, the writer looks at autism spectrum disorders. Insights from Temple Grandin are cited. Paper uses one ...

Autism: Research-Based Instruction

limited reinforcement repertoire, short attention span, distraction, slower learning, difficulty grasping abstract concepts, poor ...

Nursing Case Management/Autism

This involves intensive, one-on-one teaching, which enables autistic children to learn the intricacies of behaviors or skills via ...

Freedom In Childhood And Adulthood: Compare/Contrast

to how much freedom he believes he should have. Inasmuch as the toddler stage is indicative of significant growth, this developme...

Child Development - Observations

book. The reader kept the story interesting for the children. According to Piagets Stages of Cognitive Development, Diane demons...

African “AIDS Orphans”

2008). To make matters worse, the psychological problems experienced by AIDS orphans are exacerbated if they are separated from th...

Children And Literature: Learning About Themselves In A Book

are learning that every living being sometime, somehow, some way ultimately dies. Fairy tales have long utilized this concept as ...

Selecting Child Care

equipment was very important to them. It needed to be safe and there needed to be a lot of it. These parents have read to their so...

Piaget, Vygotsky, Skinner and Their Developmental Theories

all objects with the same shape together regardless of their color (Atherton, 2005). The third stage is the "concrete operational...

Technology and Culture: The Electronic Media and Our Children

accounts of child abductions, rapes, and murders practically every day. We are kept up-to-date on the violence in Iraq and that u...

Overview of Child Abuse

This paper describes the effects of child abuse on child development and also the problems that is causes in later life for the ad...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

The Abused Child and Ancillary Threats to Health and Welfare

degree of violence among todays adolescents that something has gone terribly wrong in American society. What has gone wrong has b...

Parents should be banned from their children's sport activities

feel their children are being treated unfairly, and this is the situation that sparked the fight in Boston. How should such incide...

Visual Impairment & Hearing Impairments

through the developmental processes if that loss is acquired at birth or during childhood. Children born deaf have no frame of ref...

A Modest Proposal To Abolish Schools And Introduce Workhouses In Their Place

not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...

Language Development and the Effect of TV Viewing

screen media, but that this learning is dependent on three interrelated factors, which are the: "attributes of the child; characte...

Abuse in Childhood, Abusers as Adults

raised in an atmosphere of domestic violence. When they see a parent beaten by the spouse, they accept this as normal and may cont...

Cultural Prejudices in Parent Teacher Communication

Interpersonal communication affects practically every aspect of our lives. This is certainly true in the educational arena. Inde...

Sensory Training in the Montessori Method

Montessori (1870-1952) was an Italian physician (the first female physician in Italy) and a renowned educator. The pedagogy she de...