Evaluation of basic skills through flash card teaching and thinking strategies for autistic children

One of the fastest growing disability categories, autism spectrum disorder is a neurological developmental disability that affects social interaction, communication, and behavior. To meet the needs of this growing population, special and general education teachers need to know the many characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorder, the extreme diversity among these children, and strategies to work effectively with them. The present research is carried out on 20 subjects (autistic children). Each child were assessed on their basic skills like language, reading & writing, number & time, domestic & social work, business & money with the help of BASIC (MR). Similarly their thinking strategies were also assessed with the help of Thinking Strategy Test it includes memory, concept development, reasoning, problem solving. It was followed by 6 months training of respective teaching strategies and again the behavior assessment was done with the help of BASIC (MR) and Thinking Strategy Test. It reveals impact of different teaching strategies.