Autism - Educating Autistic Children

A large number of high functioning autistic use Time4Learning. Autistic children benefit from Time4Learning for a few important reasons.

Language Skills - Time4Learning provides a fun multimedia approach to building linguistic skills which are often difficult for autistic children to acquire. Unlike simple "learning games", Time4Learning provides a comprehensive language arts program starting with simple vocabulary, verbal comprehension, and following basic instructions.
Patient Impersonal Computer-Based Instruction - Autistic children can be a challenge to anyone's patience. The computer is both endless patient and , since Time4Learning is automated, children and teachers have some time to prepare other lessons.
Student-Paced. Students can progress through thge Time4Learning at their own pace. Additionally, students can be placed at separate levels for language arts and math. Many autistic children choose to repeat lessons which Time4Learning allows.
Social Skills - Beyond the purely academic, parents of autistic children have commented that the lessons model proper conversation and interactions which help autistic children learn normal conversational interactions which can be very useful for aspergers and autistic children as they struggle to understand standard social interactions. For instance, many of the lower school math lessons start with a short conversation between two cartoon characters. Typically, one asks a question, the other explains the question which serves as an introduction to the lesson. The first character thanks him for the information. This models a typical peer interaction.

Autistic Children - What do they need?

There is no simple single answer to this question for autistic children. In fact, experts cannot often agree on the best treatment for a single case. Putting aside these debates and focusing on the question of education, autistic children appear to benefit from early educational intervention with an emphasis on helping them acquire language skills and mastering basic social interactions. While speech pathologists, parent-led therapy, and intensive language courses appear to help; most autistics benefit from daily intensive language work which is beyond the logistical and financial ability of most parents to provide. Time4Learning provides a home-based low cost effective method to supplement these others therapies.

Austism - Finding the Right Educational Mix

Whether your public school delivers on the commitment to provide adequate education or not, parents of autistic children need to be deeply involved in their children's education. Many parents with autistic children homeschool at some point when appropriate institutions cannot be found. Even when schools do provide appropriate education, providing home reinforcement and support for education can be an exhausting task for parents.

Autistic Children - Many Like Learning on the Computer

Time4learning is a thorough curriculum that allows children to move
through the lessons at their own pace. The lessons are short and fun,
children learn and are engaged by what is presented without stress or
boredom. Each lesson completed on Time4learning gives our children a
sense of achievement. The lessons provide positive reinforcement
without the kind of pressure that can trigger stressful episodes in
children with Aspergers. There are no set lesson times, our children
can log onto the system and resume learning at any time, the kind of
flexibility that is priceless to a parent of a child with a pervasive
developmental disorder.

Time4learning’s comprehensive language arts program has helped us to
bridge the gap between the look/say method our children used to learn
to read and the phonics training they needed to become better readers
still. After using Time4learning successfully for over a year, to
date this is one set of lessons that my children actually request to do.

Time4learning really does make learning easy and fun and I would
recommend it to anyone.

Austism -Learning and Succeeding

Elizabeth really enjoys the website. She especially liked the language sections (stories, family trees, etc). She also found it easy to use. It is very good for children with Aspergers, as they are such visual learners and the computer gives prompt feedback. Marianne - Mother of a fourth grade girl with asperger syndrome.

Let me begin by saying that so far my 1st grade son enjoys your Time4Learning program and looks forward to his on-line lessons. We are a homeschooling family - doing so because our son has Mild Autism. I am using your program to supplement other math and language curriculums we have purchased. I am very impressed with your subject offerings which greatly enhance what I am teaching....[The note went on to mention some suggestions that she had about the pacing of some of the lessons which would improve it for her child] Eileen, mother of a child with mild autism

(NOTE - if you are a parent of a child with austism, we would like to hear your experiences with Time4Learning - please send it to info@time4learning dot com)

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