Thursday, January 27, 2011

Blog Assignment #2: Reflecting "Letter from Birmingham Jail" within How Autism Affects Schooling

With my research on how Autism affects a child's schooling, I want to find new ways that a teacher can help a child adapt in the classroom so that their schooling could improve. I hope to see more and more special needs children in regular classrooms learning, with help from teachers, how to function in a "regular" classroom. I also hope to see more children being more confident in themselves and improving in school, just like MLK Jr. wanted the black citizens to stand up for themselves, be confident and fight for their freedom.

Throughout my research and at the end, I hope to move teachers of autistic children, but also the parents and children themselves. I hope to move the teachers and show that children with special needs, like autism, can function in the same classroom as other students just in a different way. These children deserve to be treated like other students and not blocked off. I want to move the parents and let them realize, more than already do, that their child has the potential to develop just as well as other students. The children themselves just need to realize that they are like everyone else and can do just as much.

My research is here to find out how children with autism get through the school day and how it is affecting their grades among other things. I have done a little research and found that children with autism learn less from the environment and have to have a very structured schedule to get through the day. With that information, I wish to find out how well a child does in school when they have a schedule and what happens when they do not.

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