THIS ASSIGNMENT HAS THREE (3) SEPARATE UNRELATED QUESTIONS!!!
QUESTION 1: From your personal perspective and what you learned from this week’s reading, answer the following questions:
What did you learn about autism that you did not know before or that surprised you?
What symptoms or difficulties experienced by individuals with autism stood out to you the most?
Provide specific examples to support your thinking.
QUESTION 2: Review the module resources. Using what you have learned, write a 2- to 3-page APA-formatted paper using the following as your guide:
What are some of the common characteristics and needs of students with communication disorders and autism spectrum disorders?
What are some instructional and environmental modifications, accommodations, and adjustments that could be implemented within a school to meet the needs of these students?
Provide examples from this module’s resources to support your answer, as well as specific examples from your personal experiences.
QUESTION 3:
Overview
For Project Two, due in Module Seven, you will create a professional blog post. In this milestone, you will select the topic of your blog post and complete an annotated bibliography to prepare you to write your post. You will begin by finding five current articles (published no earlier than the year 2000) and ensuring three of them are primary research articles in which the authors collected their own data.
Prompt
Use the following resources to support your work on this milestone:
Reading: What Is an Annotated Bibliography?
This Shapiro Library resource describes the purpose and characteristics of an annotated bibliography. It also includes examples of annotated bibliographies and a brief video.
Shapiro Library Research Guide: Psychology
Research guides are developed by librarians to help you find and locate the information you need for your classes, papers, and projects. This guide is a great resource to help you search for credible sources for your project. Scroll down to the Types of Psychology Sources table to help identify the types of sources you need to complete your milestone. Consider reaching out to a librarian using email address to ask a library-related question.
Select a topic for your Project Two blog post from the Project Two Milestone Topics PDF document. Next, using the Shapiro Library or other sources, identify three primary and two secondary sources to support your blog post. Complete your milestone using the Project Two Milestone Template Word Document. You must address each of the rubric criteria listed below in about 1,000 to 1,200 words total.
Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:
Select a topic from the topics provided and explain why you selected that option.
Create an annotated bibliography entry for your first primary source. Sources should be described in your own words for a general audience. Your entry should include a summary of the following:
The problem addressed
The methodology, measurements, and sample
The findings
Conclusions and limitations of the research design
Create an annotated bibliography entry for your second primary source. Sources should be described in your own words for a general audience. Your entry should include a summary of the following:
The problem addressed
The methodology, measurements, and sample
The findings
Conclusions and limitations of the research design
Create an annotated bibliography entry for your third primary source. Sources should be described in your own words for a general audience. Your entry should include a summary of the following:
The problem addressed
The methodology, measurements, and sample
The findings
Conclusions and limitations of the research design
Compare two of the primary research report articles you selected for your annotated bibliography that use different research methods, and explain why the conclusions each article can draw are different.
Compare two secondary sources. Your comparison should be described in your own words for a general audience. Your comparison should include a summary of the following:
The types of research being reported
The level of detail
The intended audience of the publications