And Haddon does a great job by setting Christopher in a positive self-image for people who have Asperger’s Syndrome. That you can do anything you want, you just have to put your mind to…
Rodin Taylor a speech pathologist is added to Ann Marie’s therapeutic team, she advises Catherine that all children have some form of communication and her objective is to change Ann Maries learned communication structure into a more conventional form. Within the first half hour session Catherine struggles yet views Bridget putting temperamental Ann Marie into a chair and repeating this action until Ann Marie looks for Catherine. Bridget then states “look at me” then observes whether Anne Marie does so on her own, or with encouragement, or not at all. When Ann Marie displays the preferred behavior, Bridget then positively applauses her, “Everything was prompted, physically, and verbally if this sounds contrived and forced, it’s because it…
Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) is characterised by impairments in communication and socialisation, alongside repetitive and stereotyped behaviours (Association Psychiatric Association, 2013). Differences in risk of ASC are associated with socioeconomic disparities, whereby ASC tends to be overrepresented in high socioeconomic status (SES) families. Early clinical (Cox et al., 1975; Finnegan et al., 1979; Hoshino et al., 1982; McCarthy et al., 1979) and population-based studies (Bhasin & Schendel, 2007; Durkin et al. 2010; Lotter, 1967; Treffert, 1970; Williams et al., 2008) have reported positive associations between ASC and SES, measured by parental education, occupation or income. However, other studies (Cialdella & Mamelle, 1989; Croen…
When reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time I was drawn to Haddon’s way of making Christopher seem real. Like many people who suffer with Asperger’s syndrome, or autism in general, emotions are a difficult concept to understand. Haddon’s deadpan tone developed Christopher as the type of person that is extremely intelligent and logical, but does so with as little human interaction and emotion…
Mark Haddon was successful in creating the voice of an autistic teenage boy in the book. The book is mostly in first-person narrated by Christopher, which makes it easier for the readers to understand the kind of autistic person Christopher is and how he feels rather than if someone else was narrating the novel. After reading the article on “Ten Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Know” and watching Temple Grandin, it made it easier to understand autism. In the book, when Christopher explains or prove something, he talks super fast, for example, in (page 116-118) of the book, he talks about how humans think their minds are different from computers. Christopher interprets language literally, like metaphors and idioms.…
“Haddon’s novel not only illustrates Christopher’s daily difficulties in this domain but also the way they are exacerbated when life situations become more challenging” (Lambidoni, 2007, p.97). Early in the book the reader finds out that Christopher lives with his father and they struggle to communicate because of the underlying difficulty his father has with his son’s Autism. The reader also finds out that Christopher has lived without his mom because she died when he was young, or so he thought. Later in the book, Christopher discovers that his father had been lying to him about his mother, and that she is not dead, she just had an affair and moved to London. He also found that that his father was the one who killed the neighbour’s…
“Children with Autism are colorful – they are often very beautiful, and like the rainbow, they stand out.” A quote by Adele Devine which she uses a great simile comparing autism to rainbows. If people were to look at the definition of a rainbow, one would see words like spectrum, range, or variety. These are all words used to explain Autism and Asperger’s syndrome. So considering this definition Adele Devine describes Autism and Asperger’s syndrome as spectrums and the children as beautiful therefor in its truest form a “beautiful rainbow.”…
For my interview paper about how the views on development has changed throughout life, I interviewed a 65 year old, caucasian, woman named Debbie Canipe. She is my maternal grandmother. She lived with her two brothers and sister, along with her mother and father. She grew up here and grew a family here with her husband, Bill. She still lives in Centerburg today…
Early on in my career I worked with Autistic children providing behavioral services in the home setting. In this work environment it is very important to establish rapport, not only with the child but with the family as well. Our work relied so heavily on parental participation to reinforce the work we did with the child. Part of my work including finding ways to engage the family and build rapport. I feel that a large part of developing rapport with the families I worked with in particular included having similar backgrounds (Latino/Hispanic) and understanding linguistic and cultural aspects of our cultures.…
Research indicates that there are many strategies that could increase children’s academic and social performance in schools (Eikeseth et al., 2007; Eikeseth, Smith, Jahr, & Eldevik, 2002; Sallows & Graupner, 2005; Vismara & Rogers, 2008; Vivanti et al., 2014). When searching for the best strategy for each individual child, it is important to identify the Autism severity and the program (Reed & Osborne, 2012). Time input of the intervention also impacts the success of the strategy. The level of time input from the approaches is critical to the student success, and the children’s gains are proportional to the time input of the program (Reed & Osborne, 2012). With the increasing prevalence of ASD, it is important to identify interventions that can be used in and outside of the classroom to increase student academic and social success.…
Humanity is something that can either boost us to make us feel good about ourselves or it can make us forebode. Humanity is a very strange thing in this world because you see bullying and homeless or thieves and then you see people who have better lives and are too good or too stubborn to stop and help the people in need. A lot of people feel that humanity is something that needs to be helped because people deserve to be happy to, even the homeless. One example of humanity is autistic people. Autistic people deserve to be able to do the exact same stuff everyone else does.…
Knowing the sex of my likely to be autistic baby would not change any factor. Thus, knowing if the autistic baby is a male of female is not important. Knowing my child is likely to be autistic would definitely change the dynamics of my relationship with my husband. A child with special needs would need more time and attention. Which would result in less time for other family members.…
Fifteen years ago, professional doctors told my mother and father that I would never be able to complete a full sentence. Now, it is a constant struggle for my parents to keep me quiet. Being diagnosed with severe autism at nineteen months were words that my parents could not bear to hear. With incredible conviction and dedication, my family put their lives on the line to save mine. Years later, there was no trace of autism to be found, due to the extensive hours of therapy and help from tutors, teachers, and my family.…
When I noticed how he talked and how he communicated with people throughout the book I knew that he was autistic. I have also just like Haddon communicated with autistic people and I know how they speak that is why I was able to pick it up so quickly. Haddon also seemed like he set out for his readers to notice that autistic people (other than their interactions with people) are just like any other kid. In the book Christopher was an extremely intelligent guy.…
The person whom I had chosen to interview with is a woman who has three daughters diagnosed with autism. Her name is “Dana Reeds,” and her daughters (beginning with the oldest to the youngest) are named “Priscilla,” age twelve, “Tina,” age eleven, and “Leslie,” age eight. Dana has four other children who don’t have a disability, and all of them go to school. This mother was the first option in my head to be the perfect example for the interview. I am related to her, and knowing she is an easy-going person, I knew she wouldn’t mind if I asked a few questions on the daughters who have autism.…