Personal Narrative: My Search For Autistic Children

As the story goes on, Julia builds more and more confidence while on her journey to uncover the truth. By the end of the book Julia faces a very difficult situation that forces her to test her strength. Throughout the book Julia built more confidence and can finally stand up for herself. Sarah showed amazing character development as well. At the beginning of the book Sarah was just like any other ten year old child, innocent, kind, and loving.

Autism is a disability that you are not born with but may cause social, communication, and behavioral challenges. In the book Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko there is a young girl named Natalie. Natalie repeats words and phrases verbatim, fixates on objects or activities with abnormal intensity or focus, and fails to respond to her name or appears not to hear people at times. These three symptoms cause some readers to believe Natalie has autism. In the book Natalie shows the social communication and interaction symptom, repeats words and phrases verbatim.

The way information is processed can be described as hypersensitive or hyposensitive. The sensory system can be viewed as having seven components:

Throughout the first act of the film, just by being introduced to Sarah 's family the audience can see that Sarah is a stubborn and selfish character. However, as Sarah is first implied as being elaborate and mean we also see Sarah 's considerate side come out as she begs the Goblin King to give Toby back to her.

In the mid 1900s, psychiatrist Leo Kanner and a pediatrician Hans Asperger used the same word “autism” for a condition where children had deficits in socializing and forming contact. Stemming off the greek word “autos” meaning self, Kanner stated that autistic children had good cognitive potential yet they had islets of ability meaning their intelligence was focused in silos. There was an assumption that autistics were incapable of intelligence and were mentally disabled. Later, Laurent Mottron discredited the theories that autism is caused parents or “refrigerator mothers” and shed light on the fact that neurotypicals lack the abilities of autistic savants. The view of individuals with autism is skewed and as Amanda Baggs shows in her vivid video describing her behaviour, it

In just a matter of months, Sarah has hastily experienced and heard things that she hadn’t thought she would. As she moved into her cousin’s home, she begins to see how the

Many people have dreams and aspirations for the future. Some want to be rich, have their dream home, be famous or travel the world. While these are all great goals and aspirations, they are not a wish of mine. My dream is to open a non-profit organization that assists in finding employment for disabled adults, specifically autistic adults. Before beginning this establishment I must have a solid vision, the mission of the non-profit, the goals I am aspiring to reach and a firm set of policies in place all while ensuring the correct management style is utilized.

The poem Making Sarah Cry has a theme of being different. In the poem the author showed ways of how Sarah was different from everyone else. For example, the author said in the poem, “She was slow and not as smart”.

Originally, I was drawn to speech pathology after my sister’s diagnosis of Autism at the age of three. Watching Diane struggle with language development and acquisition while other children seemed to grasp these skills naturally is what initially sparked my interest in helping families like my own. At the start of my junior year, I set out to obtain experiences working with different populations. Toward the latter half of junior year, I became involved as a clerical volunteer at the Sacramento Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center. By senior year, I was balancing a full course load alongside three volunteer experiences. In addition to Scottish Rite Childhood Language Center, I divided my time between tutoring at a neighboring elementary school in the Twin Rivers School District and serving as an intern at the Autism Center for Excellence (ACE). During my undergraduate experience, I welcomed the opportunity to work with students that struggled with literacy, language, and pragmatic skills. After graduation, it was my goal to obtain additional experience in the field as a speech-language pathology assistant.

She was also well spoken and could follow directions well. It was interesting to see such a stark contrast in the development of the children in this class. There were students like Brooke in this class, and there were also students like the girls who played the memory game with her, students who could not control their bodies or their actions, and students whose speech was nearly incomprehensible.

A child is known for having innocence, and bad experiences strip kids of it. In Sarah’s

On Saturdays my mom would take Sarah and me with her to do her errands—returns at Target and Belk, dry-cleaning pick up, and then lunch somewhere downtown. With all the receipts my mom collected, I wondered which one was magic enough to let us return my sister. It is not that I do not love my sister, but we are as different as mud and honey. I often wonder how my sister and I came from the same two parents. Yet, opposites can work.

Children With Autism Children with autism have the possibility to improve greatly, and some even overcome the effects of autism if appropriate therapies are begun early enough. A multifaceted disorder, autism has long baffled professionals and parents alike. At a point in time, doctors gave parents absolutely no hope for the recovery of their children. But recently, new treatments and therapies have shown that improvement is possible. With early intervention, intensive care, some children have if not fully recovered, improved, and have been integrated into schools, indistinguishable from their peers.

The word “autism” was first used by a Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler in an article written in the American Journal of Insanity in 1912. It comes from the Greek word meaning self. Bleuler used it to describe the schizophrenic’s seeming difficulty in connecting with others (“Autism”).

Barbeau, Soulières, Dawson, Zeffiro and Mottron (2012) conducted an experiment to examine the correlation of autistic individuals’ intelligence between their intelligence level and their intelligence examination time. The goal of the experiment was to compare inspection time (IT) between people on the autistic spectrum and some control typical groups, and to determine whether or not early speech development is related to these statistics (Barbeau, et al., 2012). The results were expected to be that the autistic group would outperform the typical group in a Wechsler IQ test regarding their IT and would be very similar to the performance of the typical group on the Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPM, a test of reasoning ability that doesn’t need