Alan: A Grade 5 Student
Alan is currently integrated full-time into a regular Grade 5 classroom.
He was late in achieving some of the developmental milestones of early
childhood. He started to walk at 18 months and was slow to talk. His
early language was almost exclusively repetitive echolalic speech with
limited communicative message. As a young child, Alan’s play was repetitive
with seeming unawareness of others. He did not like to be
touched by or to be close to other children, but he was agitated
when separated from his mother. He often used his sense of
smell to investigate objects. He had an unusual interest in small
objects such as keys or switches