International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue IX, September 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Curriculum Approaches for Children with Autism

Samuel Senyo Dogoe
Past Student of University of Birmingham England, UK, Sen Practitioner In Ghana.

Abstract: This write- up seeks to highlight curriculum approaches for children living with autism. Teaching is an art as long as you are trained with different approaches to engage or facilitate teaching and learning for all learners to gain access- equity and quality. In this vain, the focus is on curriculum appropriate for making learning accessible to enable learners with ASD.
The write up will look at areas of curriculum adaptation, differentiation as pedagogical approaches. Although, teaching is an art, in this contemporary era, almost every teacher and educational institutions should endeavour to tailor teaching styles to meet inclusion educational goals, SDG4 and education for all goals.
This article is purposefully geared towards the inclusion of persons with ASD and suggested curriculum approaches that could be used for them to fully participate in an inclusive learning environment.
Various methods are also suggested in this article to teachers and staff in general which they could use to improve their methods of handling persons with ASD in their classrooms.
The work is organized thematic areas with an introduction, and various themes which are thoroughly explained with conclusion and references.
Globally and locally, teachers of facilitators are being encouraged to make their school environment inclusive enough to accommodate diversity in learning. Each and every learner has a unique way of learning so all these abilities should be harness by the facilitators or teachers by varying their teaching styles to make teaching and learning more inclusive enough to embrace all types of learners in the mainstream inclusive school environment.

Keywords: ASD; Autism Spectrum Disorders, Curriculum approaches, I.E; Inclusive Education, IEPs; Individualised Educational Programmes, Pseudonym-Aba and SDG4.

I. INTRODUCTION

In this contemporary era, the term autism spectrum is going through a lot of scholarly and medical diagnostic debates and metamorphosis which is of massive interest to both the individuals on the autism spectrum, professionals, care givers parents and the entire world as a whole. The term Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a term which covers a range of conditions which is also known as ‘triad of impairments’. The term was initially introduced by Lorna wing in 1996 Jordan (2002). The ‘triad of impairments’ include difficulties in social interaction, communication and imagination. Glenys et al (2011) cited (Wing & Gould 1979).