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Module 2 Assignment

Module 2 Assignment

Yuju Lee
Department of Special education, George Mason University
EDSE 501 DL2: Introduction to Special Education
Dr. Linda Mason
October 10, 2021
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Framework for Module 2 Assignment
Directions for Finding an Organization
Module Assignment Component A

Finding an Organization
Item Information
Student Name Yuju Lee
Disability area of focus Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Name of organization related The Autism Research Institute (ARI)

to disability

Website of organization (if https://www.autism.org

available)

Mission statement of the To support the health and well-being of people affected by
organization autism through innovative, impactful research and education.

How is the organization ASI relies mostly on donations. Other than that, according to
funded? “2020 audited financial statement”, it was funded in various
ways, including the payroll protection program federal grant,
the special event, the membership dues, the book sales,
interest and dividends, In-kind contributions, etc.

Who is the target audience of Individuals with ASD, their families, healthcare professionals
the organization? and investigators working to find key symptoms and signs for
early diagnosis and appropriate treatment.

What does the organization • The Autism Research Institute (ARI) is a non-profit
do? 501(c)3 organization focused on conducting and
sponsoring research aimed at improving the quality of life
for today's generation of children and adults with autism
spectrum disorders.
• The Autism Research Institute works to support the health
and well-being of people affected by autism through
innovative, impactful research, and education.
• ARI has awarded more than 100 research grants over the
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past 10 years.
• We continue to support our community by:
– Creating online educational events for parents and
caretakers
– Offering continuing medical education credit for
physicians, teachers, dietitians and occupational therapists
– Providing frequent research updates through our monthly
e-newsletter and our clinical e-newsletter
– Offering the ATEC, a free online assessment tool for
individuals with ASD, in 23 languages
– Publishing our quarterly science newsletter, Autism
Research Review International, to provide updates on the
latest biomedical and educational research worldwide
– Sponsoring annual Think Tanks to discuss issues related
to promising treatments and intervention
– Funding a tissue bank for the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development at the University of
Maryland (410-706-1755), the Digestive Function
Laboratory Repository at Massachusetts General Hospital
in Boston, and a specimen bank for non-autistic
individuals to provide proper comparison controls for
researchers
– Collaborating with nonprofit and research organizations
worldwide
Would you recommend this I would recommend this organization. The Autism Research
organization to the target Institute (ARI) is the hub of a worldwide network of parents
audience? Why or why not? and professionals concerned with autism (Charity navigator,
n.d.). ASI fosters a variety of studies that can affect the lives
of people with autism spectrum disorders, funding and
conducting them, providing and updating information on
studies through various media such as websites, YouTube, and
electronic newsletters, and providing a number of meaningful
information to various targeted experts and families. In
addition, this organization appears to have more extensive
data on other organizations. The ARI data bank, the world's
largest, contains over 42,000 detailed case histories of autistic
children from over 60 countries (Charity navigator, n.d.). This
characteristic leads to the advantage of being able to see vast
and diverse data. The organization is not limited to research,
but is considered to be of great help to target listeners as it
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continues to support the community through various activities
such as creating online education events for parents and
guardians, or collaborating with non-profit and research
organizations around the world. The ARI data bank, the
world's largest, contains over 42,000 detailed case histories of
autistic children from over 60 countries (Charity navigator,
n.d.). This characteristic leads to the advantage of being able
to see vast and diverse data. The organization is not limited to
research, but is considered to be of great help to target
audiences as it continues to support the community through
various activities such as creating online education events for
parents and guardians, or collaborating with non-profit and
research organizations around the world.
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Directions for Finding a Website
Module Assignment Component B

Finding a Website
Item Information
Student Name Yuju Lee
Disability area of focus Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Title of website Jobs4Autism.com

URL https://www.jobs4autism.com

Purpose of website (as The Jobs4Autism mission is to become a key resource to

stated on website) individuals with autism, their family members, job coaches and
caregivers for sharing job ideas and hopefully finding long-term
employment opportunities.
What group There is no description of the group on the website, but after
sponsors/created the checking their social network, the site's operator is presumed to
website? What be Barbara Wilson Shallue.
information does the
website give about that
group?

Who is the target Individuals with autism, their family members, job coaches and
audience of the website? caregivers.

What information does The website states that anyone with job-related experience related
the website provide for to autism (good or bad) can share it with others. In addition, it is
users? stated that employers can publish job openings, specific
employment stories, and a resource of job success and job failure
stories for individuals with autism, their family members, job
coaches and caregivers. However, as a result of checking the
website, the information could not be found.
Does the website provide The section of this website consists of a total of four sections,
any information about home, about, contact, and privacy policy.
where it gets its - Home: There are 5 articles related to several jobs.
information or whether it - About: A brief introduction to this site
is research-based? If so,
- Contact: Organized to write down their names (required)
what?
and emails (required), a subject, and a message so that
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employees or job seekers can connect with the site's
management.
- Privacy Policy: As can be seen from the section name, a
description of privacy policy on this website is specified.
Would you recommend CNN recommended this website in 2010, but I would not
this website to a recommend it. When checking the website's social networks such
colleague, parent, or as Facebook and Twitter, it seems that it was actively operated in
student? Why or why not? the early 2010s but looks like inactive now. There are some
unclear data even make me have a doubt how they relate to
people with autism rather than helpful data, such as the
experiences of employers or employees, as stated on the website.
In addition, when applying for a job, clear instructions or notices
are not provided in advance. On this website, only
name(required), e-mail(required), subject, and your massage
sections exist on the page where employees or job seekers can
contact its operators or staff, and there are insufficient proper
explanations or examples.
Other comments or There is no explanation of how this website operates and how it is
questions you have about being financed.
the website
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Directions for Finding a Study
Module Assignment Component C
Item
Student Name
Citation
(in APA format)
Research Questions
(What questions were the
researchers trying to answer;
usually stated at the end of the
introduction)
Type of Research
(Descriptive, Group
experimental, single subject)
Participants
(who participated in the study;
this should include students
with your assigned disability
and perhaps peers—just
describe the individuals
involved)
Dependent variables—
(This is essentially what the
researchers measured. If you
have an experimental study,
what tests or measures did the
researchers use to compare the
Finding a Study
Information
Yuju Lee
Kraemer, B. R., Odom, S. L., Tomaszewski, B., Hall, L. J., Dawalt, L., Hume,
K. A., Steinbrenner, J. R., Szidon, K., & Brum, C. (2020). Quality of High
School Programs for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism:
The International Journal of Research and Practice, 24(3), 707–717.
• What is the overall program quality for students with ASD
enrolled in high schools in the United States?
• Are there relative strengths and challenges in specific domains
of quality?
• Are there differences between standard diploma and modified
programs in overall quality and on specific domains of quality?
• Are community and school characteristics associated with
program quality?
Descriptive
• 537 students with autism spectrum disorders who met their
state’s criteria for eligibility for special education services under
the autism category in 60 high schools located in central North
Carolina; southeast, central, and northern Wisconsin; and
southern California.
• The interviewees: the school principal, special and general
education teachers, related service personnel, paraprofessionals,
and selected family members.
• This study was a part of a randomized clinical trial (RCT)
conducted by the Center on Secondary Education for Students
with Autism Spectrum Disorders (CSESA).
• The Autism Program Environment Rating Scale–Middle/High
School version (APERS-MHS)
- Assessing quality of high school programs serving learners
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experimental and control with ASD who are 11 to 22 years of age (i.e. through the
groups? If you have a end of high school)
descriptive study, what data - Including 66 items in 10 domains that focus on
did the researchers collect— interdisciplinary teaming, learning environment, positive
observation, interview, classroom climate, assessment and IEP, curriculum and
questionnaire?) instruction, communication, social competence, personal
independence, functional behavior, and family participation.
• Between 5 to 9 Interviews by coders
- To gather information about aspects of the program that
they could not observe directly (e.g. team decision-making
process, families’ involvement in the assessment and IEP
process, and participation of community service providers
in transition plan meetings).
Method In order to evaluate the quality of programs for students with autism
(A brief description of how spectrum disorder, Center on Secondary Education for Students
the researchers did the study. with Autism Spectrum Disorders (CSESA) conducted APERS
For example, the experimental evaluation and conducted interviews to gather information about
group received 50mins of aspects of the program that they could not observe directly in 60
reading comprehension high schools located in three geographic locations in the United
instruction daily for 10 weeks. States (CA, NC, and WI).
Scores on a reading test were
compared before the
instruction (pre) and after the
instruction (post)).

Results • In general, high school programs for students with ASD

(What happened in the study? need more emphasis on transition programming.
If it was experimental, did the • The domains that had the highest levels of quality were
Learning Environment, Learning Climate, and Family
experimental group
Participation.
outperform the control group?
Don’t worry about statistics—
just results. If it was a
descriptive study, what did
they describe as findings?)
Your Thoughts This study explains the importance of transition programming for
(What did you think the students with ASD and urges development of it. In addition, this
results indicated? How do you result is important by explaining the link between the quality of
high school programs and the transition of students with ASD and
think it translates to or
suggesting how it can be developed. In addition, this study urges
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informs practice?) their efforts by mentioning what teachers can do to improve the
quality of school programs. According to this study, it is supporting
in assessment of skills, writing quality IEPs, developing functional
programs addressing social competence, promoting self-advocacy,
including opportunities for work based learning, creating effective
communication systems, and providing supports to increase
independence, regardless of whether they work in cities, suburban
towns, or more rural communities.
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Directions for Finding a Popular Press Article
Module Assignment Component D
Item
Student Name
Citation
(Source, date, author, title)
Type of media
Author’s stated
(or implicit) purpose of the
article
Summary of the article
How does the author
portray people with
disabilities?
What are the underlying
assumptions about
disability that the author
makes? Describe.
Does the author provide
information about sources
or data for the article?
What is your overall
Finding a Popular Press Article
Information
Yuju Lee
"Copy & Paste’ - Hidden Asperger’s- Girls with Aspergers |
Niamh McCann | TEDxDunLaoghaire (Dec 14, 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2ctCuTWPw
YouTube
She stated that the need for accurate and broader tools to
diagnose autism in all its many forms
She points out that the reality that women with Asperger's
disability, a highly functional autism, do not receive accurate
diagnosis or appropriate support because all the diagnostic tools
that professionals use were designed to spot Asperger’s in boys.
The speaker is the person who has Asperger's syndrome, and
she makes the assumption that the person’s with the disability
diversity should be recognized with saying that the images that
people have about autism such as quirky genius type, stimming,
bouncing, flapping, rocking, and restrained interests are just
stereotypes, and they are only part of the whole picture.
She assumes that this is not easily found, especially if a girl has
Asperger syndrome.
The source of her data originated from the experiences she had
with herself and her family; The experience that she and her
younger brother with Asperger's were diagnosed with.
My overall impression of this is interesting and beneficial. Of
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impression of the article? Is
it a good information source
for people who may not
know much about
disabilities?
Would you recommend this
article to someone? If so, to
whom? If not, why not?
course, people whose major is special education are already
aware of the reality that Asperger diagnostic tools were
designed to spot Asperger’s in boys, so it is not surprising for
them, but I think it is certainly useful information for people
who may not know much about disabilities.
I would recommend this to people who have stereotypes about
autism. In this video, he explains the difficulties arising from
the reality and prejudices against autism. She talks about the
difficulties that people with disabilities have, and it is not easy
to recognize due to the characteristics of Asperger’s. Therefore,
this video will also serve as a good opportunity to make people
with a narrow perspective on autism aware that there are more
diverse categories of autism than they think.
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Reference

Charity navigator - rating for Autism Research Institute. Charity Navigator - Rating for. (n.d.).
Retrieved October 9, 2021, from https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/952548452. 

"Copy & paste’ - hidden asperger’s-- girls ... - youtube. (2018, December 14). Retrieved October
14, 2021, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY2ctCuTWPw.