The student I have chosen is a 12 year old girl with Autism, who is in year 8 at secondary school. Autism is a disorder effecting the brain making the learning development. Autistic Spectrum Disorder is a “Neuro-developmental disorder condition that affects the functioning of the brain” (Mulligan, Steel, Macculloch & Nicholas, 2010). The National Autistic Society states, “Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people. It also affects how they make sense of the world around them”. Autism can show symptoms from a young age and is the severity of the person’s condition is measured on an autistic spectrum. Children with ASD can display a number of difficulties. The Autism Society categorise social and communication in three areas which included: communicating with others (expressive language), understanding what's being said to them (receptive language), non-verbal communication like facial expressions and body …show more content…
Children can find it hard to communicate their needs or to understand what other people are saying to them, or asking them to do. This can cause considerable frustration and anxiety which, if it can't be expressed any other way may result in challenging behaviour and these are some of the problems, with children who have such problems finding mainstream education a challenge. Research shows that males are 5 times more likely to have ASD than females. An article in published in Discover Magazine (2014), claimed that according to a team of geneticists in the U.S. and Switzerland, it all boils down to what’s called the “female protective model.” This suggests that girls have a higher tolerance for harmful genetic mutations and therefore require a larger number of them than boys to reach the diagnostic threshold of a developmental disorder. With identical genetic mutations, then, a boy could show symptoms of ASD while a girl could show