A 5-Year-Old Girl With Autism Creates Remarkable Paintings That Belong In A Gallery

Meet Iris Grace, a 5-year-old girl from Leicestershire who has a remarkable talent for creating beautiful paintings.  Grace has autism, a disorder that affects how a person make sense of the world around them.  The condition impairs a person's social interaction and how they relate to and communicate with others.  Grace, who was diagnosed with condition in 20111, started painting as a way to help with her speech therapy. She is now starting to speak and express herself through movement and art. As Grace began painting, her parents Arabella Carter-Johnson and Peter-Jon Halmshaw discovered her exceptional talent, noticing that she created a style of painting that they had "never seen in a child of her age."

"She has an outstanding colours and how they interact with each other,"  Arabella said.  "She beams with excitement and joy when I get out the paints; it lifts her mood every time."




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Friendship 101: Helping Students Build Social Competence

The eighth volume of the CEC Division of Autism and Developmental Disabilities' Prism series, Friendship 101 focuses on building social competence, friendship making, and recreation and leisure skills among students with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. Juliet E. Hart Barnett and Kelly J. Whalon, editors.2014.




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DADD Express | DADD Express Newsletter Autism Information News Articles

Volume 25, Number 3 • Fall 2014

A publication of the Division on Autism andDevelopmental Disabilities, a unit of the Council for Exceptional Children

Focusing on individuals with autism, intellectual disability, and related disabilities


Teachers’ Corner



Behavior Is Communication:



Understanding Meltdowns and Interventions for the Classroom




Jamie Albright & Shanon S. Taylor





University of Nevada, Reno


Law Brief



Understanding FAPE for Students with Autism and Developmental Disabilities



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Texas State University


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