Academic Journal
From Tarantulas to Toilet Brushes Understanding the Special Interest Areas of Children and Youth With Asperger Syndrome
| العنوان: | From Tarantulas to Toilet Brushes Understanding the Special Interest Areas of Children and Youth With Asperger Syndrome |
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| المؤلفون: | Mary Ann Winter-messiers |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://rse.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/28/3/140.pdf. |
| سنة النشر: | 2007 |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | The purpose of this exploratory study was to evaluate the impact of special interest areas on children and youth with Asperger syndrome (AS) and their families. The research team conducted interviews about special interests with 2 girls and 21 boys with AS, ages 7 to 21, who were eligible for services under autism and enrolled in an extended school year program. The team also received written surveys from 18 parents. Strong positive relationships were found between special interests and improvements in students ’ social, communication, emotional, sensory, and fine motor skills. Based on these findings, the researcher created a strength-based model of AS and special interests that emphasizes the critical need for teachers to understand and value the special interests of these students and the impact on their families. FROM THE POPULAR PRESS TO LATE NIGHT TELEVIsion talk show guests, the media are spellbound by the special interest areas (SIA) of individuals with Asperger syndrome (AS). In the acclaimed motion picture Rain Man (Guber, Morrow, Bass, & Levinson, 1988), the public encountered SIA with Raymond Babbitt’s perseverative focus on Judge Wapner and the television program The People’s Court (Billet |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.121.1178; http://rse.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/28/3/140.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.121.1178 http://rse.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/28/3/140.pdf |
| Rights: | Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.C7C93953 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |