Additional Supplemental Resources

Websites

• Autism Science Foundation (Links to an external site.)
  • An organization supporting autism research by providing funding and other assistance to scientists and organizations conducting, facilitating, publicizing, and disseminating autism research. The organization also provides information about autism to the general public and serves to increase awareness of autism spectrum disorders and the needs of individuals and families affected by autism.
• Stop Bullying (Links to an external site.)
  • There are many types of bullying, including physical, verbal, social, and cyber. With bullying affecting so many people, it is important to understand what it is and how to respond to it and prevent it. This Web site provides a plethora of resources for a variety of audiences.

Videos

• Crash Course Video #13 – How We Make Memories
  • This video on how we make memories includes information on topics such as stages of memory, mnemonics, and levels of processing. Closed captioning available.
• Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development 
  • This video summarizes Kohlberg’s stages of moral development.  The stages themselves are structured in three levels: Pre-Conventional, Conventional, and Post-Conventional.

• What is dyslexia? – Kelli Sandman-Hurley- TEDed 

  • Dyslexia affects up to 1 in 5 people, but the experience of dyslexia isn’t always the same. This difficulty in processing language exists along a spectrum — one that doesn’t necessarily fit with labels like “normal” and “defective.” Kelli Sandman-Hurley urges us to think again about dyslexic brain function and to celebrate the neurodiversity of the human brain.

• Piaget – Stage 3 – Concrete – Reversibility 

  • Does this child understand the concept of reversibility?  Which stage would that put her in?

• Egocentrism 

  • The Three Mountain Problem was devised by Piaget to test whether a child’s thinking was egocentric, which was also a helpful indicator of whether the child was in the preoperational stage or the concrete operational stage of cognitive development. Which stage are these children in?

• ADHD at School 

  • ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and is considered a mental disorder. Children with ADHD have trouble paying attention, are hyperactive, and have difficulty controlling their behavior. To understand how it affects children in school, let’s look at the story of Leo, a 12-year-old boy who is going to school with the best intentions, but is struggling hard to succeed.
• The World Needs All Kinds of Minds- TED talk 
  • Temple Grandin, diagnosed with autism as a child, talks about how her mind works — sharing her ability to “think in pictures,” which helps her solve problems that neurotypical brains might miss. She makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids.