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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821054103321

Titolo

Autism spectrum disorders in the college composition classroom : making writing instruction more accessible for all students / / edited by Val Gerstle & Lynda Walsh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : , : Marquette University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-87462-073-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 p.)

Disciplina

808/.0420711

Soggetti

English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching (Higher)

Autistic people - Education (Higher)

Learning disabled - Education (Higher)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Section I Accommodation -- 1.Basic Writing Students with Autism in the College Classroom / Marcia Ribble -- 2."I just jelt kinda invisible": Accommodations for Learning Disabled Students in the Composition Classroom / Katherine V. Wills -- 3.Structure & Accommodation: Autism and the Writing Center / April Mann -- 4.Recommended Approaches to the Neuroimaging Literature on Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)for Teachers of Writing / Cheryl Olman -- Section II Pedagogy -- 5.Channeling the Enthusiasm: Two Narratives of Teaching Students with Asperger's Symdrome in Writing & Literature Classes, with Questions & Reflections / Kim Freeman -- 6.Reaching the College Composition Student with Autism through the Cartoon-Enhanced Classroom / Val Gerstle -- 7.Helping Autistic Students Improve Written Communication Skills through Visual Images / Muriel Cunningham -- 8."Well Not Exactly": Asperger's & the Integration of Outside Sources / Jennifer McClinton-Temple.