Description: Seminar, 90 minutes; fieldwork, six hours. Service-learning course for undergraduate students in Early Childhood Partial Hospitalization Program (ECPHP). Introduction to history, theory, and practice of autism interventions and social and cultural factors that determine how society and medical profession understand autism as diagnostic category. Study of processes involved in identifying autism as represented in fields of psychology, neuroscience, and disability studies. Review of social versus medical model of disability and analysis of dominant as well as counter discourse on autism. Overview of broader educational issues for children living with disabilities as well as parent perceptions. P/NP or letter grading.

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