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Children with Autism and Boundaries

Group: Groupies

Names: Annastasia, Kendra, Michigan, Will, & Darian

Hello, Jacob!

Meet Jacob

What is autism?

Meet Julia

  • Autism, or autism spectrum disorder (ASD), refers to a broad range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech and nonverbal communication.
  • Examples:
  • Flapping of the arms
  • little to no eye contact
  • sometimes slur of speech
  • but remember! Everyone is different when it comes to autism

Challenges with communication

Meet Julia

Linguistic Barrier (Julia)

Linguistic Boundaries

  • Linguistic barriers - groups erect linguistic barriers when members use a private vocabulary or slang meant to camouflage meaning outside of the group.
  • Julia has private vocabulary when it comes autism
  • "boing boing boing" meant jumping to Julia
  • "Show painting." meant she is processing the question into a statement

Hello, James!

Meet James

Psychological barrier

Psychological

  • Psychological barrier - Anything that makes an individual feel that he or she is not a true member of a group.
  • James example:
  • James does not respond with direct answers like others in his class (i.e. he does not sit down, and he does not take out his things)
  • James does not do the work the rest of the class is working on (i.e. he is doing a puzzle)

Meet, Abigail!

Meet Abigail

Physical Barrier

Physical

  • Physical barrier - A group boundary control such as walls, locked doors, an inconvenient location in a building, and partitions and cubicles in offices to restrict input.
  • For autism it's very similar but it could be the person does not like touch (i.e. hugs, poking, or a rub on the back)
  • Abigail:
  • She showed she did not want to do the video by getting up and walking away

Meet your classmates

Case Study and Discussion

Case Study - how to communicate?

Case Study

  • We will have four groups of people
  • Three groups will either have cotton balls, lollipops, and the secret thing for the eyes
  • We will rotate at least two times
  • groups will have grab a question from the bowl
  • the bowl is a topic and has questions inside to start a conversation
  • you cannot remove your item during the conversation
  • try to find a different way to say yes and no

Discussion Questions

Discussion

  • What do you think the importance of this activity was?
  • How did this activity make you feel?
  • What were you able to take away from the activity?
  • Why is this activity important to the camparison of real life kids with autism?
  • How has this activity made you think about how you treat others especially kids with special needs like autism?
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