A review on the article “Making the Grade: A new classroom for children with Asperger’s and other Pervasive Development Disorders”

Can you imagine how it would feel to not have a single friend and not be able to communicate with anyone? There are many children that are faced with this problem do to pervasive development disorders (PDD). These children lack social skills tremendously. Some of them will only talk about one certain topic, some can’t keep a conversation, some of have trouble keeping eye contact, and more. Recently, a new classroom has been developed in Yonkers, New York. It is an Applied Behavior Analysis classroom that consists of a teacher, two aides, a psychologist, a social worker, a movement therapist, and a speech and language pathologist. Their job is to help the eight boys (PDD is more common for boys) that are