Thursday, November 13, 2008
Last nights class was really interesting! I ejoyed learning more about the differences between children with autism and those with intellectual disabilities. I knew that they were different but didn't realize to what extent. I had never really thought of the fact that children with autism were happy being in their "own world" and don't really care to communicate with anyone. Children with intellectuall disabilities on the other hand, want very much to communicate and interact with others. I also thought that the information on echolalia was interesting I had never heard of it before, but understood what it was when Mrs. White gave the example of the movie "Rain Man".
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My best friend has twin brothers that have autism and they do not really talk to anyone but each other. A big problem with them is that they are not as mature as children their age so they have a hard time making friends with kids in their class. It is so sad, they went into middle school this year and kids are already calling them names and making fun of them and they are really great kids.
Also, I graduated high school with a guy who knew the capital of every place in the world, he kept to himself and had a really hard time communicating with people. The weird thing is, he was never placed into special education classes and never recieved extra help. Do you think that he may have Autism and no one knows?
Tarah,
It is sad that children make fun of other children. Hopefully, if the students who are making fun of them get to know them better they will realize they are wrong, but sometimes that never happens. However, as future educators we have the opportunity to teach children in our classroom about how children are different, but the same.
I also thought that what we talked about was very interesting. I know somewhat about Autism, but not much on intelluctal disorders. What we talked about really help me learn the differences between to two and how important they really are.
I agree, I also never realized how great of a spectrum there was in children with Autism. For one child to be completely different than the next and still be considered with the same thing I find it amazing. Over Thanksgiving break I will be babysitting an eight year old boy with Autism for five hours and I have no idea what I will be talking to him about, because his interest is Pokemon(I'm not even sure if that is how it is spelled! haha). If anyone reads this and knows of something that I could do I would really appreciate it!
I enjoyed last Wednesday's class as well. Rain Man has always been one of my favorite movies, and I guess I've always been sort of amazed with autism. Children with autism are so unique. We commonly refer to autism as a single disorder, but there is so much variety and differences between people that have autism. I was happy to learn more about these differences in class so we can think about how we can help them. One aspect of autism I have been fascinated with is people who have savant syndrome. Their skills and memory really interest me.
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