Thursday, December 08, 2005

Internet Resources on Autism Spectrum Disorders

Corey Seeman published an article on (ASD) Autism Spectrum Disorders internet resources in College and Research Libraries News. These sites will help the regular classroom teacher understand the complexity of ASD from many different perspectives. Here are a few of them.

Autism Fact Sheet from Child Development Institute
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/disorders/autism_fact_sheet.shtml.

What is Autism? From Autism Society of America and some information on educational approaches.
http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer?pagename=WhatisAutism
http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Education.

Temple Grandin's Website
Personal narratives from adults with Autism.
Http://www.templegrandin.com/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a kid's page geared for teaching children about autism in the 4th-6th grade.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/dd/ddautism.htm

National Autistic Society
This webpage from the UK includes information for families and siblings. Includes personal narratives under the members of the family link.
http://www.nas.org.uk/

To read the rest of the article visit the periodical room in the Mabee Learning Center.

Corey Seeman, Autism Spectrum Disorders Source for ASD information on the Web. College & research libraries news. 66, no. 9, (2005): 646

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

ELED 437 Methods of Teaching Foreign Language Secondary Bulletin Boards













The ELED 437 Methods of Teaching Foreign Language class prepared 4 bulletin boards for use in a secondary Spanish class. Their themes included parts of the body, verb tenses, flags and verb families. The students involved in this class are Tiffany Daniel, Angela Newbert, Sarah Hale and Rebekah Edmonds. Dr. Litherland is the professor.