The biggest problem of an autistic child is communication with a crowd. Hence, sending your autistic children to school can be a difficult task to accomplish. You might think that once your child gets admission in the school, the ball moves to the teacher’s court and they will take care of the education of the child.



The truth is that one must take care of the kind of school that the child attends has a great impact on the upbringing of child. Listed below are a few pointers that you must take of whether you are a parent of an autistic child or a teacher aspiring to teach autistic children. These pointers explain the best classroom environment where the child will learn properly and show remarkable improvement despite the learning disability:

• The classroom should not be crowded with children. Autistic children do not like interacting with a large group of people at once. They take time to develop a comfort zone and in order to tackle them well they should be taught in small groups with one teacher attending to about 10 kids in one go. This gives the teacher time to attend each child.
  
• The school for autistic children should refrain from having time bound lessons. Their ability to grab on to a lesson is lower and hence time bounded classes can lead to a lot of distraction and irritation in a child.
  
• The activities in school should be easy to understand and of interest to autistic children. Rather than focusing on imparting book education to these kids, the important street-smart techniques should be taught so as to enable them to move about in the society without being dependent on someone else for the rest of their lives.
  
• The school should not create report cards for autistic children. Every child is special in itself and creating a report card of its performance will only lead to hampering its confidence level. A progress report that helps the parents in understanding the graph is okay, but this should not be taken as a benchmark of the progress of the child.

• Slow speed of writing.
• Difficulty in jotting down notes.
• Delays in writing achievement.
• Handwriting and spellings are poor.
• Issues in writing math problems.
• Face difficulty in taking notes and paying attention to lectures simultaneously. 
• Difficulties with hand-eye coordination or when using fine motor skills.

• In case of any student with writing disabilities, their IEP (Individualized Education Program) document is consulted.
• If attending a lecture is very important, then it must be ensured that the students are furnished a copy of the notes so that they can pay more attention to the lecture rather than jotting down notes.
• Students suffering from writing disabilities are allowed to type instead of writing out the assignment. They are also taught the usage of a spellchecker.
• In the case of assignments or tests, their time limit is extended.
• There needs to be a specific learning goal for each written assignment. For instance, if the focus happens to be on the writing, the teachers are not harsh to the student regarding the handwriting and the spelling. On the other hand, if handwriting and spelling are the primary objectives, then the special education teachers go easy on the organization of the content. This way, alternating the focus between different skills helps them in making clear goals and at the same time, their skills are also worked upon.

• The child can be taught to communicate, relate and think emotionally.
• It makes a child more open towards attachments and warmth.
• Floortime therapy makes way for communication using gestures, which eventually leads to better verbal communication and increased use of words.
• Autistic children learn to relate emotions with intent, words, thought and ideas.

• It increases the sense of closeness between the parent and the child.
• It helps in increasing the inherent feeling of competency within the parent when it comes to meeting the needs of the child.
• Parents can better learn how to read their child’s cues and needs.
• Through Floortime, parents can get more attuned to the behavioral patterns of their child.