Modern technology has played a huge role in Kingsford's Woodland Elementary School's progress with Autistic students.
KINGSFORD -- More and more people are being diagnosed with the Autism -- and now 1 in every 88 children born will have the disease.
Students and faculty at Kingsford Middle School were decked out in blue Monday in support of "Light It Up Blue," World Autism Awareness Day.
"We've offered training for the last, I'd say about ten years.And, we had continued to do that because the children are now beginning to get up in the higher grades, and also because the knowledge that we have has changed over the years," School social worker, Jana Underwood said.
Modern technology has played a huge role in Kingsford's Woodland Elementary School's progress with Autistic students.
Teachers at Woodland Elementary School use video modeling on their iPads to help students learn appropriate social responses, and how to deal with every day life.
"The iPads have been incredible. Way beyond what my expectations originally started as. I started using one with a student whose in Prep Kindergarten, and he originally started just using single words when he came to school here. And now, he's using a lot of sentences, a lot of spontaneous speech. It's really growing," Speech language pathologist Kristin Edwards said.
Autistic students also learn by participating with peer learning groups.
Kingsford teachers go through extensive training when it comes to dealing with autistic students, with presentations and one-on-one meetings.
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