of Mainstreaming Autistic Children

Twenty years ago Autistic Spectrum Disorder was far from a household name. We were far from understanding why children with ASD acted and communicated the way that they did. Today, ASD affects one in every 150 children, that equates to over 300,000 children in the United States alone. Autistic Disorder was renamed Autistic Spectrum Disorder in order to communicate the fact that this condition has many . The higher end of the spectrum includes those patients that are able to function at an almost normal level, but the lower end of the continuum consists of this condition is so vastly broad the children are separated by the degree of severity of the condition (Rosenberg 6). Many autistic children have a condition that is known as "Theory of Mind", this is believed to be why these children simply cannot comprehend that other people...