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To develop, learn, and have meaningful relationships with other people, young children need a core set of foundation skills on which to build. The five foundation skills addressed in this course include 1) nonverbal imitation, 2) joint attention, 3) sensory processing and self-regulation, 4) purposeful play, and 5) early language development. Young children on the autism spectrum often struggle with acquisition of these critical foundation skills.
This course will provide an overview of the key features of autism in toddlers, how girls on the spectrum present differently from boys, along with a discussion of the five key foundation skills that need to be addressed in early intervention and early childhood classrooms. The therapeutic strategies addressed in this course are not focused on establishing compliance or fixing deficits identified on standardized tests, but rather on helping autistic toddlers and preschoolers learn how to learn through social interactions with the important people in their world.
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