What is Autism??

Hello Everyone! I hope I got this set up ok :)

Over the next few weeks I am going to be exploring autism. I am going to be looking at the affects that autism has on individuals and also their families. Throughout my practicum experiences I have seen childrent that have autism, but I have never worked with a child that has autism. Seeing this in schools has left me with many questions about the disability. So I chose this for my blog!!!!

The first thing I wanted to explore while starting this blog was to look up what autism actually is. I feel like for me to really understand the affects of this disability, that I need to know what autsim is classified as.
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/asd.cfm

This website was very helpful in explaining to me what autism is. The website explains autism as a disability that causes major problems with social interaction and communication. It also said that many of this will occur before the age of three, which causes many areas of development to be affected. This has got to be extremely hard for those families of young chidlren becuase communication is a huge part of the schooling process for young children and also in the world around us communication is a huge part of everything we do each day.

Thats all I have for now. I will get back on here in a couple of days to make another post!