Every parent will put forth all their efforts to see their children groomed into a self-sufficient adult. In fact, it is the primary duty of the parents to shape their children’s behaviour and growth to reach the long-term goal. The education system also plays a vital role in equipping the children with right skills and assisting them in growing to become a responsible adult.
The Difficult Task of Educating Autistic Children
Parents helping their children in grooming, children going to schools, studying well and growing with good manners, complete studies and take up a job, and become a successful adult in the society – all may sound simple and easy in a hypothetical condition. Such things are highly impossible for autistic children.
Though the parents of these autistic children also wish to see their children grow, perform well, and become self-sufficient, in the real scenario it is not so as today’s available autism education is not sufficient enough to fulfill such dreams of parents who have autistic children.
You can have a list of institutions and special schools that offer good autism education, but before you could make your mind to admit your autistic child in one of the schools, you should consider many points that may influence your child’s personality development.
We will see few of them now:
– In a any general school, one single teacher may be able to manage around 15 pupils and cater to the needs of the studying children, but in case of autistic children the teacher student ration should be in the range of 1:3 meaning that for every three autistic children there should be at least one teacher. Because of the special attention required to teach and guide autistic children this 1:3 teacher student ratio must be maintained and in case of more autistic children left under the care of one single teacher, then the children may not get the required attention and interaction.
– Autism education is not easy as it is very time consuming and monotonous in nature and requires special skills to handle non-responsive autistic children. Many times the children may need one-to-one interaction for making progress.
– The level of expertise attained by the teacher and the training staff need to be in high order so as to have an effective impact while handling the autistic children. In majority of the time when the autistic children makes inappropriate reaction or response, only a well trained teacher or the staff alone can understand and give corrective measures to the children. Only a good training can make teachers giving correct and appropriate training to the autistic children.
– The staff and the teacher involved should be very friendly and should talk freely so as to gain confidence levels of the children and be able to meet to the needs of the autistic children. In many of the autism education programmes, the progress of the child should be closely monitored for incorporating necessary changes and for including additional therapies. Deciding on the right kind of treatment or therapy is a long drawn process and hence the parents and the teachers should work in coordination for achieving desired results.
If you can get all the above-mentioned facilities or advantages in an autism education programme, then such programme will be beneficial to your autistic child.
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