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Elevated Education: Approach To Inclusive Pedagogy For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Elijah James
Elevated Education: Approach To Inclusive Pedagogy For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Elijah James
Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year
My mother is a huge inspiration in my life. She is a special education teacher. And throughout the years she has continually expressed the dramatic increase in autistic students. When she first began, she had 4 students, she now has 28. According to the CDC, throughout the last four years the number of autistic students has risen about 8%. This brings the autism rate to 17.8% for students aged 3-17. That is about 1 in every 6 students.
The views of autism are often misconstrued just for being different. I too was guilty of this. Until the day I met …