The courses open Spring, Summer, and Fall. Each course is 12 weeks long, once a week, and 1 hour and 40 minutes long (50 min sesson X 2 sessions).
For 2025 summer, you can register for ‘autism 101’.
The School of Autism is designed to provide training sessions for parents of children with autism.
Children with autism show delays in social skill development, which is known to impact the acquisition of language and communication skills. However, this assertion is not entirely accurate. Social skills influence language at the signal level, not the communication level.
As discussed in a recently published paper (A Major Breakthrough in Autism, https://pondered.ca/en/index.php/2025/03/07/autism-paper-3/), a child with autism and an intellectual disability can develop language skills. Further details on this topic are explored in a book published in Korean (link:https://ebooks.pondered.ca/index.php/downloads/book-autism/). This book is available on the PonderEd Korean website and in Korean ebook stores.
Misunderstandings about autistic children’s language and brain development stem from a lack of understanding of their thinking processes. Autistic children indeed have different ways of thinking. As Dr. Temple Grandin noted, they think in images and animation-like movies that disconnect their social skills. However, this doesn’t mean their language and brain cannot develop.
Through courses from the school of autism, parents with autistic children can systematically tackle their children’s language skills and brains directly.
There are two different levels of classes. The first one is ‘Autism 101’, which focuses on understanding autism. This class is offered during the spring and fall terms for newcomers to Pondered. It is a mandatory course to progress to the next level.
The second-level class is ‘Coaching’. In this class, parents learn to systematically develop their child’s language and brain in everyday life. The coaching class also has levels that correspond to the children’s progress.
When parents follow the training and actively engage with their children, their progress will surpass expectations.