Peter Mundy lectures and explores the social behavioral, emotional, and learning characteristics of higher functioning children with autism. He talks a lot about how they are affected socially and how how they feel when certain situations happen. During the podcast they interviewed an individual with autism who was probably about twenty-seven years old, in order to see his opinion first hand. The parented were interview as well and they commented multiple times on the behavior and acceptance of his previous teachers. She spoke how many teachers were "afraid" to have a child with autism in their class and at times they even denied him because of their fear. The teachers were hesitant because they didn't know how it would go having a student aid in the classroom full time. I was extremely interested in what the man who actually had autism had to say. I feel that when you hear it from the person who is actually having the experience, it makes a large difference.
The podcast itself has many subtopic groups that have podcasts as well including; fostering a community for children with disability disorders, social skills training in high functioning children with autism, and phycological and biological markers of stress in the lives of mothers of adolescents and adults with autism. In the podcasts they sometimes say things that can be used as tips and lessons that I can use in my future class. I am not sure i fully agree with everything that Peter Mundy has to say as far as the lecture but I respect his opinion regardless. It's good to hear others opinions regarding special education.
Websites fore more information:
http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=17660
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002494/
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/detail_autism.htm
http://www.educateautism.com/ - (teaching aid)
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