Intern Year: Fall 2013: Week 13

I was able to attend a pathway for a student who has autism from the Autism Training Center.  The student was a student I have worked with over the semester.  She is a kindergarten student, who mostly presents behavior aspects of autism.  It was such an interesting experience.  A representative from the Autism Training Center has been working with the student and the family previously to provide services and assist with the student.  They have been working and developing a plan for work and school.  The first part of the pathway was focused on the student’s dreams.  They talked about future jobs, marriage, children, cars, and pets.  I felt like this was not appropriate for a kindergarten student.  I felt like student should have created her dreams, and it should have been focused more on high school or college goals.  That would have been more beneficial.  They then focused on the goals for the student.  Goals focused on attitudes and behaviors at home and at school.  It was really great and everyone contributed.  I was even able to contribute my ideas and thoughts about the student.  They mostly discussed the behaviors and attitudes the student needed to work on and set attainable goals and positive goals.  It was great to work with the family and the educators so that they were able to relate behaviors and experiences to each other.  It is really great to have home and school working to better the development of the student.