1. *Based on your life experience, skills and interests, what would a design process that is both uniquely yours and effective look like?  Identifying and defining a problem is the first step in a design process. In Sierra Leone, children with autism and other disabilities are being kept from schools and are not receiving services […]

List the top 20 questions your team needs to answer to advance the venture forward. Categorize the questions if necessary.   1 How are we going to disseminate information when autism is not defined? 2 How can we teach the people of S.L. in a culturally appropriate way? 3 How do we break the spiritual […]

Give three compelling examples of how cultural issues affect your project. There are many cultural issues that pose a conflict with the purpose of our project. Through research-based articles and presentations, many interesting facts have arisen about Sierra Leone and their cultural beliefs of children/adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. One of the biggest […]

Why did you enroll in this course? (motivation, prior interest) I have been a special education teacher in the Bethlehem Area School District for six years. I have worked and continue to work with many children with autism, on all areas of the spectrum. I work hard to find interventions to implement in order to […]