¹Maria Drossinou Korea,²Panagiotis Alexopoulos

¹Department of Philology, University of Peloponnese, Kalamata, Greece

²Department of Primary Education, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v6-i5-01

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ABSTRACT

The paper presents school and instructional integration in secondary education with the methodology of observation for special educational needs [SENs] in autism. The hypothesis focuses on the literature teachers' ability to understand the difficulties faced by a junior high school teenager with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as presented in the movie Ben X. For this purpose, the pedagogical tool [TISIPfSEN] is used, with a focus on the weekly timetable of lessons. The pedagogical approach is defined as a Targeted, Individually Structured, and Inclusive Intervention Program for Students with Special Educational Needs [SENs]. Based on the results, it seems that literacy teachers can understand the SENs of a student with ASD, such as Ben, through heterobservations with the Informal Pedagogical Assessment [IPA]. Furthermore, the philologist can set priorities for targeted instructional interventions, focusing on the time the student spends "sitting in front of" the computer while also looking forward to collaborating with his classmates.

KEYWORDS:

inclusive secondary education, autism, informal pedagogical assessment, observation, TISIPfSEN

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