Autism? – Davis Can Help
A Davis Autism Provider can help people with Autism to participate more fully in life.
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Davis Life Concepts for Autism and Davis Concepts for LifeSM
A Davis Autism Provider can help people with Autism to participate more fully in life.
contact a Davis Facilitator for a free telephone consultation.
Davis Life Concepts for Autism and Davis Concepts for LifeSM
We can help people with Autism to participate more fully in life.
contact a Davis Autism Provider for a free telephone consultation.
Autism is defined as a lifelong developmental condition. It is part of a spectrum and is sometimes referred to as an autistic spectrum disorder, or an ASD. The word ‘spectrum’ is used because, while all people with autism share the three main areas of difficulty, it will affect them in a multitude of ways.
The Davis Autism Approach enables the autistic person to interact more effectively with the world.
A person recognised as having an autistic spectrum disorder is likely to have problems in three areas:
However not all autistic people will display the same difficulties or to the same extent. They will often exhibit symptoms of other disorders which may lead to innaccurate diagnoses. The psychiatrists’ manual that outlines the specific behaviours and problems associated with ASD is currently being refined to enable more accurate diagnoses (DSM V).
Particular challenges arise in identifying those who have Aspergers or are High Functioning Autistics (HFA) because they often have average or above average intelligence and do not appear to have obvious communication problems. 70% of all autistics fall into this category. Sometimes they are labelled as ADD, ADHD or OCD rather than ASD.
The features that commonly unite all people on the ASD spectrum are limitations in their ability to interact with other human beings in an effective and appropriate way and the fact that they may show unusual patterns of development in childhood.
The Davis Autism Approach addresses the three problem areas so that autistics can make more sense of the world around them. The highly structured and carefully sequenced activities, that may take several months to complete, develop the knowledge and understanding that will allow the autistic to participate in life more fully.
The Davis Autism Approach leads the autistic person through three developmental phases.
The Davis Autism Approach has been constructed to enable the autistic person to learn from experiences they haven’t previously learnt from. The highly structured and carefully sequenced activities fill in the missing parts of development. At the end of the programme, which may take many months, the autistic person will be able to participate more fully in life.
The Davis Autism Approach leads the autistic person through the three phases:
Here is a gorgeous video of Ron Davis talking about red dirt and water and how he came to understand the concepts: those concepts mastered to such effect in the identity development stage of the Autism Approach, using clay.
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