By Leslie Broun, M.Ed.Although the hobby of scrapbooking is very popular right now, I must thank my 91 year-old mother-in-law for the conceptualization of this item. Many years ago when my children were young and we visited her in Scotland, my mother-in-law pulled some scrapbooks out of a drawer that she had made. The pages were covered with pretty bits of ribbon and stickers, portions of greeting cards, pictures from magazines - any attractive piece of paper that came her way. She had a box where she collected these items until the "mood came on her" and she would make a scrapbook. Most of these scrapbooks she donated to hospitals for children to look at, but some she kept for little visitors and grandchildren.
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By Paula KluthMany individuals with autism have deep interest in one or a variety of topics. Some interests are commonly seen across individuals with autism (e.g., trains, horses, light switches), others seem more unique to an individual person. For instance, Sean Barron, a man with autism once had a deep interest in the number 24. At another point in his life, he became fascinated by dead-end streets (Barron & Barron, 1992)
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By Leslie Broun
Educational Consultant, ASDAs we have learned more about how we learn, both through observation and study, a critically important fact has emerged: many students have difficulty with the physical printing and writing process - difficulty which is significant enough to interfere with their academic performance.
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by Rebecca Moyes
Many children with autism have deficits in executive
functions. This can be likened to an employee who works for a
company where the supervisor is unorganized and inefficient.
Nothing seems to go right, things get misplaced, and general chaos
seems to be the operational rule. It's a lot like that for
children with autism spectrum disorders. The 'executive' in
charge of their brain is not effective, and because of this, planning
processes suffer.
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By Susan Moreno, Mary Anne Neiner, and Carol O’Neal
In this guide, the three terms used above will be referenced as “AS” or
“the spectrum” Many students on the spectrum demonstrate exceptional
abilities in a
vast array of skills and talents. These can include but are not
limited to: exceptional memory, mathematical skills, calendar
projections, computers, music, exceptionally early and advanced reading
skills (“hyperlexia”),poetry, writing stories and general writing
skills, spelling, punctuation and grammar, imitations of people or
animals, painting, sculpture and other forms of visual arts,
chemistry and physics...
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Laurent Mottron, professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal
and Michelle Dawson, a postal worker on an involuntary disability
leave, make an unusual research and writing team. Michelle Dawson and
Dr. Mottron have co-authored six published papers in journals such as Brain, Neuropsychology and the Journal of Autism and Behavioral Disorders and are causing a stir in both the autism and scientific communities.
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