My Annotated Bibliography in Paragraph Form (19)

I recently read the article “Teaching of Speech, Language, and Communication Skills for Young Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorders”. The citation of the source in APA format found below. I used the APA format because this format is used to cite sources within the social sciences. Speech Pathology qualifies as a social science, so therefore this source is formatted to APA.

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 February 02, 2018, from https://eric.ed.gov/?

id=EJ955538

There is a total of five steps in order to complete a corrected annotated bibliography. The next step in the process of an annotated bibliography is a summary of the article. “Teaching of Speech, Language, and Communication Skills for Young Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder” talks about the 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. The author states that the paper’s main goal is “Aimed to bridge the knowledge gap in teaching students with ASD, this paper will provide the general educator with basic knowledge in teaching speech, language, and communication skills to students with ASD” (Hui Min 17). A case is illustrated throughout the paper to provide the idea of how a child with autism or ASD (an abbreviation for Spectrum Disorders) 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 during the experiment conducted.

The potential quotes that I found throughout the article were “Autism Spectrum Disorders, or more commonly known 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” (Hui Min 17). With the use of this quote I will be able to understand the meaning behind autism disorders and how each of these children diagnosed with it interact differently with their environment. Another potential quote I am able to use throughout my research process is “In a review of international epidemiological studies on this category of disorder Fombonne (2003; 2009) reported an estimation of 28 to 70 per 10,000 as the prevalence of ASD” (Hui Min 17). Statistics like this one found in the academic journal will help support my thesis and enable me to provide specific evidence with my research. One last quote that is of mass importance to me is “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” (Hui Min 19).

A credible source is a major part of an annotated bibliography. My source that I have read is a credible source because the URL that the website is found is a government source because of the .gov at the end of it. With this credibility the source is more valid than most. The source also appears on a credible website, Galileo. After hours of looking through several articles, I finally found this academic journal that matched my essential question perfectly. The article “Teaching of Speech, Language, and Communication Skills for Young Children with Severe Autism Spectrum Disorder” fits my potential research because it talks about the different way teachers communicate with their autistic students and how exactly these students learn. This article will make a large impact on my research because it provides with statistics from an experiment that was conducted, which then allows me to use those powerful points to support my essential question of “How can I adapt different SLP methods to impact various degrees of autism?”