Download - Cognition and Learning in Autism
The Basics of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Training Series
Regional Autism Advisory Council of
Southwest Ohio (RAAC-SWO)
RAAC Training Committee 2011
Training Series Modules
Module One: Autism Defined, Autism Prevalence and Primary Characteristics
Module Two: Physical Characteristics of Autism
Module Three: Cognition and Learning in Autism
Module Four: Getting the Student Ready to Learn
Module Five: Structuring the Classroom Environment
Module Six: Using Reinforcement in the Classroom
Training Series Modules
Module Seven: Autism and Sensory Differences
Module Eight: Sensory in the Classroom
Module Nine: Communication and Autism
Module Ten: Communication in the Classroom
Module Eleven: Behavior Challenges and Autism
Module Twelve: Understanding Behavior in Students with Autism
Training Series ModulesModule Thirteen: Social Skills in the School
Environment
Module Fourteen: Functional Behavior Assessment
Module Fifteen: Working Together as a Team
Module Sixteen: Autism and Leisure Skills to Teach
Module Seventeen: Special Issues of Adolescence
Module Eighteen: Safety and Autism
Module Nineteen: Special Issues: High School, Transition, and Job Readiness
Training Series ModulesModule Twenty: Asperger Syndrome: Managing
and Organizing the Environment
Module Twenty-One: Asperger Syndrome: Addressing Social Skills
Cognition and Learning in Autism
There is a wide range of cognitive ability.
Intellectual Disability Gifted
Big Idea
Students with autism can learn. It is up to us to
figure out the best way to teach them.
Strategies for Learning Differences
Many students with autism understand better by seeing than hearing something. When possible, use a picture or written words.
Actual objects mean more than photographs or line drawings for some.
They may have great memory for numbers, facts, directions, but they may have a hard time retelling events. Use pictures or reminders to help remember past events.
Strategies for Learning Differences
Skills learned in one place may not be used in a new place. May have to teach the skill in each place it is used.
The student may not learn by watching others. We may have to teach them by going through each step. A list of steps can be helpful for some tasks.
Strategies for Learning Differences
It might take longer for them to think through what was said before they are able to respond. Give them time.
They might not even see why they should respond. Prompt them to respond.
Some days it may be harder to concentrate or the student may be more stressed making it harder to think and learn.
Big Idea
Visuals help with learning. This can be objects, pictures, or
written words.