My Second Source to My Research (18)

Name: Theresa White

Source #__2__ Bibliography

(MLA or APA)

10 pts

Low, H. M. (2011, November 30). Teaching of Speech, Language and Communication Skills for Young Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorders: What Do Educators Need to Know?. Retrieved January 27, 2018, from https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ955538

Annotation:

(Describe ALL info. that might be important for your paper. Explain to the reader and/or summarize what might be found in this source)

35 pts

-There has been an increase of preschool and school-age children that have been diagnosed with Spectrum Disorders (Learning Disorders). School systems are not including these children in environments that will enable them to grow and to communicate with their peers. This paper is placed on the ideas of speech, language, and communication skills which each of these children have a lack of. A case is illustrated throughout the paper to provide the idea of how a child with autism or ASD can learn and improve once they are given the individualized teaching management and intervention from the Speech Pathologists. Teaching severe ASD children speech also allows teachers to understand these children’s behavioral patterns and learning style. Each of these kids have their own way of learning and the teacher and the school system need to understand that. The paper mentions that teaching could be targeted to help develop the deficient skills and use the strategies taught to their kids to facilitate communication. The paper contains two tables that enable readers to understand the data that was collected.

Potential Quotes:

(Are there any significant quotes you can use or paraphrase from this source?)

15 pts

- “Autism Spectrum Disorders, or more commonly known by the abbreviation ‘ASD’ refer to a category of developmental disabilities with problems in initiating and maintaining reciprocal social interaction, problems in communication and the use of idiosyncratic language and repetitive motor mannerism.”

- “In a review of international epidemiological studies on this category of disorders Fombonne (2003; 2009) reported an estimation of 28 to 70 per 10,000 as the prevalence of ASD.”

- “Speech is the verbal means of communication, which involves the execution of oral motor sequences to produce different speech sounds. Speech development begins in the first year of life when children start to make a variety of sounds with their vocal mechanisms”

- “Being a key diagnostic feature, deficits in communication development are experiences by all children with ASD. The deficits included lack of interest to communicate with others, late of intentionality in communication, and lack of abilities to initiate, maintain and end a reciprocal interaction.”

Assessment:

(Analyze and explain why this source is credible)

15 pts

- The academic journal article was published by New Horizons in Education. When researching this publishing company, I found many different articles relating to elementary school education and was able to see that this source is completely credible. The authors Hui Min Low and Lay Wah have published several credible articles that have been used in several newspapers and magazines.

Reflection:

(How will you potentially use it?)

25 pts

- Over the past couple of months, I have really fallen in love with my mentorship and being able to interactive with the autism classes every day. Every day there is always a new problem and the teachers, and I always scramble to figure out what is making these autistic students tick. These children are like puzzle pieces. Each one of them learn a different way and interact with their environment differently. It is my job to solve these puzzles and be there for these children when they need something. This article allowed me to gain knowledge on what exactly autism is and how it effects so many people’s lives. I will be using this journal’s research in my presentation to show the audience the different learning techniques that are useful to these types of students.