Cognitive Enhancement, Classic Autism and School
The school year is coming to an end and now we get the results of assessment week, the end of year tests. Personally I never liked exams, or rather revising for them, but for teachers, assessment is a big part of what they do. I used to be asked at the start of the school year for a list of benchmarks to measure my son Monty’s progress during the year, since the usual benchmarks were seen not as applicable. Then we would spend lots of time discussing the list. Typical kids just follow the standard curriculum and get their standardized progress tests. If you follow an ABA program, you are constantly measuring performance and you only progress when you master a skill, so it is like continuous assessment. Monty, aged 10 with ASD, goes to a very small international school. So there is no special needs teacher, no IEP (individual educational plan), just a nice friendly environment. This works very well because it means you can build your own educational system, ...