Facial Expressions
The issue:
Christopher has trouble reading people's facial expressions and so a lot of the time is unaware of other students feelings, the teachers feelings and may only get a small part of the message conveyed by words.
Christopher has trouble reading people's facial expressions and so a lot of the time is unaware of other students feelings, the teachers feelings and may only get a small part of the message conveyed by words.
The Artefact:
The Artefact is a visual support that shows a variety of basic emotions such as happy, sad, angry, sick, scared and tired, and include a neutral facial expression to compare. The pictures exaggerate the emotions to better see the difference.
The Artefact is a visual support that shows a variety of basic emotions such as happy, sad, angry, sick, scared and tired, and include a neutral facial expression to compare. The pictures exaggerate the emotions to better see the difference.
Facial Expression cards, created by Full Spectrum Learning: http://www.fullspectrumlearning.ca/social-skills1.html
How to Artefact will help the issue:
For individuals with Autism, "..without an understanding of nonverbal signals, which includes facial expressions, effective communication is simply not possible. "(Crissey, 2008, para. 2). As such, it is important for students to learn facial expressions, and one strategy is to use visual examples that they can refer to. "When teaching individuals with autism about emotions, it is important to describe each feeling pictorially, using pictures with clear outlines, minimal detail and colour and to keep explanations about emotions as simple and as concrete as possible." (Dodd, 2005, p.185). By relating the emotion to what can be seen, such as a smile means happy and a frown means anger, students will be able to form a basic understanding of emotions.