Autism And Education Summary

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Stephanie Lindsey the author of the article Autism and Education addresses some serious issues in the education system between the special needs students and the highly gifted students. Stephanie writes the article based off her children and how they are treated in school. Her son has autism, which affects his capability to learn, speak, and to train himself when it comes to bathroom use. Also never being alone in school due to him having a personal aid alongside him with special classes he is treaded with a different type of education. Her daughter on the other hand tests in the 95th percentile nationwide on standardized testing. She’s twelve and her capability of progressing information and taking complex ideas apart and putting them back together to form new thoughts is like no normal twelve year old. She reads entire novels, solves Sudoku puzzles, and also participates in her school …show more content…

Her son is given the same opportunity as her daughter though when it comes to the education due to government programming such as Individual Education Plan which legally ensures that her son gets every opportunity to excel. She’s also given an appeal to independently board for a mediation and her son gets extra money for his education if needed. Her daughter though spends time in regular classrooms where they review over and over again about the same tasks that she’s already learned and doesn’t motivate her. She only really challenged when it comes to her learning outside the classroom in her special “gifted” program in which she is learns different languages and different new material at a faster pace. Stephanie’s thinks even though her daughter is gifted and advances through material in school at a extremely fast pace that both her daughter and son get the same attention, in order for both of her kids to excel and do better in

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