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1
Autism Schools in Your Area You Can Trust
  • Roughly 1 of children are affected with autism
    in such a way that they need to be given special
    care throughout their lives. This special care
    includes how they live their daily schedules,
    their educational programs, and other lifestyle
    requirements that can help them thrive. If you
    are the parent of a child like this, then you
    know all too well the many obstacles your student
    faces. Getting the education your unique family
    member deserves can prove to be a difficult task.
    If you know what kind of autism schools in your
    area to look for, the journey can be much easier.
  • Following Strict Routines
  • Do the educational institutions in your area make
    sure their students follow a strict schedule? You
    know that your own child thrives when following a
    routine, so only search for institutions that
    understand this and implement daily schedules
    well. Your child will be much happier if he or
    she always knows when art class will be or when
    they eat lunch. These small tasks can be very
    daunting if they come up at unexpected times,
    residential treatment center and the surprises
    can hinder your young one's learning experience.
    Choose autism schools on your list that can show
    you how well they follow guidelines catered to
    each of their learners.
  • Having the Right Credentials
  • Since people who are autistic often act and think
    differently than other people of the same age,
    it's very important that the instructors you will
    be entrusting your young student to know just how
    to handle temper tantrums, confusion, and
    outright fear. If you want your child to thrive,
    choose autism schools in your area that
    specialize in this disorder. The best people who
    can teach autistic individuals are those who have
    additional training in this mental condition and
    know how to implement special learning skills in
    their classroom.

2
Benefits of Autism Schools to Support Your
Child's Education
  • If your child has autism, schools that specialize
    in this condition can be extremely beneficial.
    The earlier this type of education begins, the
    more benefits your son or daughter will receive.
  • A Nurturing Environment
  • Autism schools are equipped to handle mental and
    social development issues associated with the
    condition. Teachers receive intensive training on
    how to work with students and help them with
    social interaction. In many cases, these children
    feel compelled to perform certain repetitive
    behaviors such as stacking items into towers or
    placing them in a straight line. Teachers know
    how to work with these behaviors and can help
    students organize their lives in the same manner
    they organize items such as toys.
  • Public education is based in large part on a
    student's ability to interact with others.
    However, since most autistic children lack this
    ability, they can often feel lost and
    discouraged. Many autism schools are set up in a
    way that lessons are broken up to aid individual
    learning while also allowing children remove
    themselves from a social setting before they
    become upset. In addition, children will not have
    to deal with the teasing, autism school and
    ridicule that is often associated with the
    traditional education model.
  • Playtime is another area where autism schools are
    substantially different from their traditional
    counterparts. These schools design assessments in
    a way to determine whether or not there are other
    developmental issues that need to be addressed.
    Their tests may be comprised of tasks such as
    arranging letters on a magnetic board or sorting
    blocks by color. These differ significantly from
    public education tests that require students to
    take written examinations to prove they've
    absorbed knowledge mandated by state or federal
    requirements. These type of tests can be yet
    another source of frustration for children born
    with the condition.

3
Alternative Cure for Autism
  • Other than normal medication and behavioural
    therapy, natural therapies like Ayurveda can help
    cure autism, making a painful disease easy to
    cure and with no side effects.
  • A neuro-developmental disorder, autism affects
    people and can appear during the first years of a
    child's life. Impairment in speech and social
    activities are few of the common symptoms to
    identify autism in a child. A range of symptoms
    like Asperger syndrome, Autistic Disorder, Rett
    Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental disorder,
    Childhood disintegrative syndrome come under the
    Autism Spectrum Disorder.
  • The causes of autism have not yet been concluded,
    though scientists and doctors attribute it to
    environmental and genetic factors. Exposure to
    environmental toxins during pregnancy can
    increase the chances on giving birth to a child
    with autism. A mishap during early foetal brain
    development also leads to autism. And the cure is
    found in behavioural therapy sessions and therapy
    workshops. Ayurveda has tried to find a solution
    to this disease.
  • Those diseases that are not genetically linked
    can be treated by Ayurvedic practices. Dietary
    modifications, changes in lifestyles and intake
    of Ayurvedic medicines can cure certain diseases.
  • 1. What you eat determines how your body will
    react. Diet is the main important treatment point
    for autistic patients, or for that matter for any
    person. Certain foods like alcohol, meat,
    Aspergers boarding school and junk processed
    foods should be strictly avoided. Fresh and green
    vegetarian foods should be ingested. Pulses, milk
    and lots of leafy vegetables are a plus point.
  • 2. To treat the autism spectrum disorder,
    detoxification therapies to cleanse the metabolic
    system has been suggested. Few popular ones are
    Purgation and Fomentation therapies.

4
Academic Boarding School, The Other Kind Of
Boarding School
  • An academic or minimal-entrance-requirement
    boarding school is by definition a traditional
    boarding school that specializes in getting
    students back up to their potential
    scholastically. While these schools are college
    prep, they have lower admissions requirements
    than the traditional schools and have less costly
    tuition and entrance fees.
  • Such schools are being used by parents instead of
    therapeutic or residential treatment centers or
    boot camps, and because of inaccessibility of
    traditional boarding schools owing to location or
    prohibitive tuition. Typically such schools
    accept students of high I.Q. or potential who
    have fallen behind in public or other private
    schools. They are successful getting students
    back up to their true academic level with the
    help of very small class sizes and specially
    trained teachers and staff.
  • When students have fallen behind their potential
    or abilities in other schools, they usually have
    also added minor behavioral concerns to their
    lives as well. Serious legal or drug issues
    usually eliminate students from consideration at
    typical boarding schools however, minor issues
    are both accepted, autism boarding school and
    expected at an academic boarding school.
  • Other issues accepted in this school format are
    kids with high intelligence in the autistic
    spectrum. Asperger's, as an example.
  • Academic catch up boarding schools do not offer
    therapy as a standard procedure. They do in most
    cases have therapists available at additional
    charge to parents in the event that therapy is
    necessary for the child's continued mental health
    or to continue therapy started at home. Children
    who have recently been involved in a family
    divorce or a death, as an example, often will
    need therapeutic help until they can work though
    depression or anger issues.
  • Although such schools are less available
    numerically than the larger older boarding
    schools, they do show excellent results in
    getting kids ready for college entrance. Common
    admissions GPA start at 1.2 to 3.3. Oft times
    these schools are used simply to get a good
    student even more successful in their overall GPA
    and college entrance exams.

5
Asperger and School - How to Make Sure Your Child
Loves Their Education
  • Often one of the biggest issues for a parent of a
    child with Aspergers is how will my child cope
    with school and Aspergers? There are few Asperger
    school facilities specifically catering to the
    needs of children and as such a normal school
    environment, or home schooling, are the only
    possibilities. There are some strategies though
    which can help your child deal with the
    uncertainty and anxiety which can arise out of
    this new environmental challenge.
  • Children with Aspergers syndrome can benefit
    significantly from a structured and clear
    routine. The most effective routines are one
    which span their entire day, from getting up in
    the morning, to getting back into bed at night.
    Ideally, such a routine will provide structure
    without excessive rigidity, so as to provide
    certainty to your child without causing undue
    anxiety if for some reason the routine cannot be
    exactly complied with on any given day.
  • Planning a child's morning routine can be
    particularly important in providing a launching
    pad into a school day, autism program for teens
    and a child with Aspergers Syndrome can benefit
    from visual reminders, either by way of lists or
    story boards which help provide instructions.
  • If your child is about to start school, it is
    essential that you attend at the school with your
    child prior to the first day. If possible, you
    might consider approaching the school and
    inquiring whether they will facilitate your child
    being taken through a shortened version of the
    school day prior to other students being in
    attendance.
  • If the school is prepared to facilitate this,
    meet with the teacher of your child and ensure
    your child is clear on the school routine and the
    expectations which will be placed on them.
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