Teaching Practice with Autistic Children: Challenges and Possibilities

Abstract

The present work had a general objective to reflect the teaching practice with autistic children and its specific objectives: Discuss autism in education; to know the difficulties of the autistic child in the educational process; to identify the teacher's actions to overcome difficulties in the education of autistic children. This work in terms of its nature was classified as basic research. From the point of view of its objectives, this research was carried out with an exploratory nature, considering that this work is a subject already discussed in society and in academia, but requires further investigation. As for the technical procedures, this research was carried out with a bibliographic nature, where a survey of the subject was carried out in material already published such as books, articles, and periodicals. It is concluded through the theoretical discussion in the work that what is valid in situations of inclusion of autistic children in the educational scope is to love knowledge and test all work methodologies adapting them to each situation. It was also pointed out that there is no ready-made methodology, the web of social relationships in everyday school life is what will permeate the construction of the ideal teaching practice with autistic students.

Teaching English to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

“…Cunha ( 2009) in (Cordeiro et al, 2022) mentioned the term "autism" derives from the Greek word autos, which means "in oneself," because it accurately captures the most distinguishing quality of those who are autistic, namely introspection. Alike, Sunu (2012, p. 7) in (Sari et al, 2021) explained that'Autism' comes from the word 'auto,' which means 'alone'.…”