Comments on: A Whole Other World to See: A Rhetorical and Visual Analysis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children’s Literature /2021/04/02/kayla-way/ Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:01:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kayla Way /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-22077 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:46:43 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-22077 In reply to Marloes Krabbe.

Thank you Marloes! They were all caucasian. When I was deciding books there was some on other races. I think race is not widely covered enough in books about ASD. I wanted my book choices to have a book that the child was high-functioning, low-functioning, and somewhere in the middle. I could then see the correlations between the groups. All of the books were designed to focus on ASD, but one did stray from the topic. I did comment on the terms used. I find it hard to use different categorizing terms. I tried to identify what the terms mean to me and what symptoms I considered to be apart of the categories. The one book did use these terms to explain to the reader about their ASD particularly. Thank you for the questions!

]]> By: Kayla Way /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-10011 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:46:43 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-10011 In reply to Marloes Krabbe.

Thank you Marloes! They were all caucasian. When I was deciding books there was some on other races. I think race is not widely covered enough in books about ASD. I wanted my book choices to have a book that the child was high-functioning, low-functioning, and somewhere in the middle. I could then see the correlations between the groups. All of the books were designed to focus on ASD, but one did stray from the topic. I did comment on the terms used. I find it hard to use different categorizing terms. I tried to identify what the terms mean to me and what symptoms I considered to be apart of the categories. The one book did use these terms to explain to the reader about their ASD particularly. Thank you for the questions!

]]> By: Marloes Krabbe /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-22076 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:23:21 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-22076 Congrats Kayla on completing I.S.! You included the notation that all three books were about boys, were they also the same race? If so, what does that mean for the representation of autism? Additionally, how did you choose these books? For example, did you come across any books where the characters were autism-coded or autistic but it was not the driving plot or purpose of the book? It seems that in an attempt to add representation, authors have also created a separate genre or subgenre rather than integration. Lastly, I’ve read some about how autistic people don’t really like the categorization of ‘low functioning’ and ‘high functioning.’ Did this play out at all in the books you looked at? Ooops, sorry that’s a lot of questions. It’s just such an important and fascinating topic.

]]> By: Marloes Krabbe /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-10010 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:23:21 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-10010 Congrats Kayla on completing I.S.! You included the notation that all three books were about boys, were they also the same race? If so, what does that mean for the representation of autism? Additionally, how did you choose these books? For example, did you come across any books where the characters were autism-coded or autistic but it was not the driving plot or purpose of the book? It seems that in an attempt to add representation, authors have also created a separate genre or subgenre rather than integration. Lastly, I’ve read some about how autistic people don’t really like the categorization of ‘low functioning’ and ‘high functioning.’ Did this play out at all in the books you looked at? Ooops, sorry that’s a lot of questions. It’s just such an important and fascinating topic.

]]> By: Kayla Way /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-10009 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:11:36 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-10009 In reply to Angela Danso Gyane.

Thank you Angela!

]]> By: Kayla Way /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-22075 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 19:11:36 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-22075 In reply to Angela Danso Gyane.

Thank you Angela!

]]> By: Angela Danso Gyane /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-10008 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:34:32 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-10008 Good job. Very proud of the important work that you are doing.

]]> By: Angela Danso Gyane /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-22074 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 18:34:32 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-22074 Good job. Very proud of the important work that you are doing.

]]> By: Denise Bostdorff /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-10007 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:15:31 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-10007 You’re very kind. I enjoyed having you in class and being able to serve as second reader for your IS.

]]> By: Denise Bostdorff /2021/04/02/kayla-way/#comment-22073 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:15:31 +0000 https://news.wooster.edu/?p=7169#comment-22073 You’re very kind. I enjoyed having you in class and being able to serve as second reader for your IS.

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