Brittany Drake English 2010 6/29/13 Annotated Bibliography 2 Macintosh, Kathleen and Cheryl Dissanayake.

Social Skills and Problem Behaviours in School Aged Children with High-Functioning Autism and Aspergers Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. December 15, 2006. Pg 10651076. Ebscohost. Web. September 25, 2013.

In this article Macintosh and Dissanayake explain their discoveries after a study they conducted on school aged children who suffer from either High-Functioning Autism or Aspergers Disorder. This study involved 20 children with Autism, 19 with Aspergers, and 17 typically developing children. All of these children were males between the ages of four years and four months, and ten years and ten months. The cause of this study was to find out if there was a large difference in behavior between those with High-Functioning Autism and those with Aspergers. When the research was complete the data showed that both of the clinical groups were equally involved socially with their peers although their rate of involvement was considerably lower than the typically developing children. The only noticeable difference seemed to be that the children with Aspergers had more of a desire to maintain friends. However, in the end Aspergers and High-Functioning Autism do not have much of a clinical difference at all. I have no doubt that this article is a reliable source for information since it was written based on evidence given within the article its self. I found myself to be slightly

confused as I read through the article because it seemed that throughout the introduction the authors were giving ways that children with Aspergers are different from those with High-Functioning Autism but in the end they ultimately said that, based on the evidence, there was hardly a difference. I would have preferred that instead of listing those subtle differences early on that they listed them in the conclusion so that I as a reader would not have the idea in my mind that they were different before evidence was given. However, it may have been that the authors were listing in the introduction what differences they thought they would find before they began researching. I think that I would be able to use some of the things in this source to support my argument in my next essay; however Im not certain that I am going to use it. There was a lot of credible evidence that I would be able to use to show the difference in behavior between typically developing children and children with Aspergers and that is what I would use to create my own ethos in my papers.

May, Kelly. Teaching Strategies for Aspergers Students. Johns Hopkins School of Education. Johns Hopkins University. September 2005. Web. September 26,2013.

In the article Teaching Strategies for Aspergers Students Kelly May explains that as the classroom enrollment limit is rising, the prevalence of Aspergers Syndrome is also increasing. The teachers of these classes already feel the stress of such a large amount of children to teach and on top of that many are burdened by the fact that they have not been properly trained in teaching children with disabilities. May then goes on to describe methods of teaching that are helpful to children with AS. The main portion of what can be done is to try to eliminate the stressors that arise within the school environment or to at least make them less of a problem. An example of this is to give the child a more structured environment where he or she will know what to expect next in terms of a schedule. This article is not from a journal where charts and data would be found and so reading its contents was a much simpler task. I was able to understand and retain close to all of the information that I read because it was so easy to follow and well written in my opinion. The intended audience for this article was possible closer to everyday people or parents who may be interested in the subject, rather than researchers or scholars. The credibility of this author is a bit harder to determine since she is a grad student from Chapman University in Southern California and may not have done as much work in the

field as other researchers have but I feel as though she has done her own research and studies and is becoming more established as a writer. I would love to use the information I found in this article in my essays. Everything that I read agreed with my current argument of the fact that teachers need to be more educated about how to teach children with AS. May gave an excellent list of how teachers can help these children in their classroom as well as outside of the classroom.