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Communication and Autism
1. The Basics of Autism
Spectrum Disorders
Training Series
Regional Autism Advisory Council of
Southwest Ohio (RAAC-SWO)
RAAC Training Committee
2. Training Series Modules
Module One: Autism Defined, Autism Prevalence
and Primary Characteristics
Module Two: Physical Characteristics of Autism
Module Three: Cognition and Learning in Autism
Module Four: Getting the Student Ready to Learn
Module Five: Structuring the Classroom
Environment
Module Six: Reinforcement in the Classroom
3. Training Series Modules
Module Seven: Autism and Sensory Differences
Module Eight: Sensory in the Classroom
Module Nine: Communication and Autism
Module Ten: Communication in the Classroom
Module Eleven: Behavior Challenges and Autism
Module Twelve: Understanding Behavior in
Students with Autism
4. Training Series Modules
Module Thirteen: Social Skills in the School
Environment
Module Fourteen: Functional Behavior Assessment
Module Fifteen: Working Together as a Team
Module Sixteen: Autism and Leisure Skills to
Teach
Module Seventeen: Special Issues of Adolescence
Module Eighteen: Safety and Autism
Module Nineteen: Special Issues: High School,
Transition, and Job Readiness
5. Training Series Modules
Module Twenty: Asperger Syndrome: Managing and
Organizing the Environment
Module Twenty-One: Asperger Syndrome:
Addressing Social Skills
7. Communication
Some students with ASD do not talk
They may use sign language to communicate.
They may use pictures to communicate.
They may use a device that talks for them.
Some students with ASD talk but are hard to
understand.
They may get upset if you don’t understand them.
8. Communication
Some students with ASD may repeat what you
say.
If you say “do you want juice” they may
repeat what you said. This is called Echolalia.
This may be their way of saying yes.
It might mean that they did not understand
what you said.
It may happen more often when the student is
nervous or upset.
9. Communication
Some students with ASD have a hard time
making choices.
Some students say “yes” to almost every choice
you give them, even if they don’t want it.
Some students say “no” to almost every choice
you give them, even if they want it.
Some students almost always choose the last
thing you said to them. For example: if you
say “do you want crackers or cookies” they may
say “cookies” even when they want crackers.
10. Big Idea
For students who have difficulty
making choices, we need to help them
by showing them pictures, drawings,
logos or the actual items.
11. Communication
Just because the student can say something, it doesn’t
always mean they understand what they are saying.
Just because the student with ASD has done something
before, doesn’t mean that they will be able to understand
what is going to happen the next time.
Students with ASD usually need pictures to help them
understand what is going to happen.
12. Communication
Some students with ASD have trouble
understanding certain words
time words such as “later,” “tomorrow,”
“after while”
feeling words such as “share” or “be nice”
sayings such as “shake a leg”
slang words such as “cool”
We have to “watch our language” and make
sure the student understands what we are
saying.
13. Communication Tips
• Use visuals – such as pictures to help the
person understand.
• Say things using simple words.
• Don’t talk too fast.
• Never talk about behaviors with the person while they
are upset.
• Never talk about the person with ASD to someone
else, as if the person weren’t there.
14. Big Idea
We could be the communication
problem. We need to watch what
we say and how we say it.
