STRUCTURED TEACHING

Elements of Structured Teaching and their Importance for a Student with Autism

Elements of Structured Teaching and their Importance for a Student with Autism

Introduction

The structured teaching provides support in learning to the people with autism.

The objective of structured teaching is to enable people with autism, and significant work as independently as possible. There is support for the development of meanings, for clarification of relationships and helps in the development of skills to cope in everyday life. A key aspect here is the spatial and temporal patterning, and the design of the work material. This is related not only to the classroom, but on the whole day. Due to the particular information processing, people with autism benefit from structured assistance. It promotes a sense of confidence and competence, because you can better adapt to new situations, when you understand when something happens. In educational practice, a distinction in the structuring of processes schedules, task schedules and instructions. However, these should always be checked for reasonableness and necessity and possibly reduced.

Discussion

The use of structured teaching in the context of an intervention strategy is at the centre of the TEACCH program since its inception in the mid 60's. The physical organization, schedules, individual work systems, visual identification, and other procedures are the elements of structured teaching which have proved useful in the classroom for students with autism of all ages and all functional abilities.

Structured training - is one of the aspects of the system of training and education, used to work with children with autism and disorders communication sector (TEACCH - Treatment and education of autistic and related communication-handicapped children), which was developed in North Carolina, USA. It is used in many forms in special and mainstream schools in teaching children with autism spectrum disorders. Especially it is widely used in the United States and the United Kingdom as well as in many other countries.

The most important characteristic of a structured learning is that the child can see clearly what is in the job, and what will happen after its implementation. For this purpose, a schedule is formed which shows the order of activities and tasks in a visual form. The child develops a clear idea of ??what he wants to do. For more than a capable child task or activity will be presented in a list of written instructions. For a young child, or a child less able assignments and classes are represented by pictures or symbols or objects themselves, make up this occupation. Tasks and activities are selected on the basis of skills and needs of the child, and provide step by step, so as not to miss the assimilation of important skills.

Structured training reduces anxiety children and increases their attention and motivation. It also prevents the development of dependence on adults. Visual organization of tasks is always of great importance and should not be overlooked, no matter what the work was not carried out, as the child with autism in an organization sees that he has to do and is not ...