Distance Education of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Abstract

Children with autism spectrum disorder often have problems with communication skills and poorly developed executive brain functions. These affect their learning, independence, home tasks and social skills. Children with ASD struggle change and with solving problems. Distance education has been challenging for me, my students and their parents. During the preparation of my e-learning materials, I dealt with certain questions, such being, how to stay in touch with a student that doesn’t speak, maintain his daily routine and how to prepare suitable and effective learning materials. Good cooperation with parents was crucial for successfully dealing with the challenges posed by the given situation. I will present my teaching practice of distance education with examples of my e-learning materials, give a description of the organization of my work, teaching methods and communication with students and their parents. I will also present the methods I used to cope with the problems presented by the absence of verbal communication in my students, how we maintained a daily routine with their parents at a distance and what we did to provide continuing progress, gain new knowledge, maintain assimilated skills, develop areas of deficit and what it was like to come back to school.