Academic+and+Cognitive+Profiles+of+Students+with+Autism


 * Chad Larson TEP 547/548**

From this article i found out using three different types of assessments; Cognitive, adaptive behavior, and academic achievement; describe academic profiles of students with Autism who have been educated and in inclusive and self-contained settings. These two types of groups have significant differences between them in academic achievement scores. But there are no significant differences in intellignece or adaptive behavior assessment scores. Both these groups of students have shown improving and emerging academic skills in regards to standardized testing while only inlcusive students obtained high scores on academic achievement such as sub tests measuring abstract and inferential skills.

All of this can tie into the No Child Left Behind Act which holds schools and states accountable for student achievement in the core subjects which inlcude reading, math, science. This act includes children with Autism.

Here is the link:

[]