To help you identify children with disabilities or special needs, look at your observation and assessment data in each domain ov
er time to see if there's A. a communication delay that may relate to autism. B. a lack of progress or lost skills that you want to share with families. C. similarities with what others have seen in their settings. D. information that you can share with families and professionals about the child's cognition.
My brother has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, so your best bet would be to B) look for a lack of progress or lost skills that you would want to share with the families, because it is always better to tell the families first so that the may investigate it further, and A) isn't right because communication delay isn't always autism.
