Artie is a preschool student in a typical classroom environment.

Artie is a preschool student in a typical classroom environment. According to the scenario described, Artie has a hard time paying attention and attending to his teacher’s verbal lessons (Cipani & Schock, 2011, p. 296). His inability to attend to presented lessons would suggest that Artie should be tested for an autism spectrum disorder.

The DSM states that those with ASD have trouble communicating, following cues, and are focused on inappropriate items (APA, 2013). In Artie’s situation, it may seem that these symptoms fit him well.

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The child was not responding to verbal cues and was focused on a mark in the ceiling throughout the teacher’s lesson (Cipani & Schock, 2011, p. 296).

In the text, Artie is a young child who is not attending to the information that is being taught during a small group instruction time at his preschool. His teacher is instructing the class on where to move with respect to a box. Some of the other children are able to understand from the verbal cueing while others learn where they should move based on their observation of peers.

However, Artie is not attending to either cues and, as a result, he moves to an area other than what was instructed. There was another observation of a daily morning routine done in Artie class. Every morning, the students would sit in a semi-circle on the carpet and sing along to a song. Artie appears to struggle with learning the words to the song at first.

The teacher naively believes that, after enough practice, he will be able to sing the whole song. However, after four years of practice, Artie is still only able to sing the first five words of the song.

The text goes on to talk about how Artie in on the Autism Spectrum which explains why he does not attune to certain stimuli and why repeated exposure is not the solution for learning a concept