I was unable to attend either of the Barb Rentenbach lectures, but I was able to watch Autism Teacher Please and Here We Are World. These videos allowed me to view people with autism from a different perspective. I have had the privilege of working with and having classes with a few people with autism, but I was interested in learning more from the Barb Rentenbach videos.
One thing that I heard mentioned in the video was that people with autism do not necessarily enjoy being in isolation. I thought that this was interesting because this was something that was mentioned in my Special Education class, as well. I will definitely keep this in mind if I am working with children with autism in my class. I plan on using this knowledge to implement a peer buddy system in my classroom for children with autism. This will promote full membership in the classroom and give my students with autism the comfort of having someone there.
I also enjoyed how the Here We Are World video discussed the use of facilitated communication. This is not something that we had discussed at great length in Special Education, so I was interested in learning something new that could help me interact with children with autism. I plan on using facilitated communication, such as keyboards or computer programs, to communicate with children with autism in my future classroom. I think that finding ways to communicate with all students is incredibly important, and I learned a lot from this video about different methods of communication.
I learned a good amount of new information from the videos, but a lot of it was familiar from my Special Education class. The videos went more in depth than what I had previously learned in class, so I feel like they were worthwhile. However, I feel like I might have gotten more out of the Barb Rentenbach lecture than the videos. It would have been interesting to see her use facilitated communication to speak to her audience.
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