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Annotated Bibliography: Black and Latino Autistic Children and Their Experience with Educational Human Services
Black and Latino Autistic Children and Their Experience with Educational Human Services
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AlegrÃa, M., Pescosolido, B. A., Williams, S., & Canino, G. (2011). Culture, race/ethnicity, and disparities: Fleshing out the socio-cultural framework for health services disparities. In B.A. Pescosolido et al. (Eds.), Handbook of the Sociology of Health, Illness, and Healing: A Blueprint for the 21st Century (pp.363-382). New York, NY: Springer Science & Business Media.
The authors are researchers on social-cultural perspective. They present a clear understanding of autism as among the major prevalent mental disability in a childhood development. They pay particular attention to the hindrance of success of equal treatment for autistic children and argues that lack of development of trajectories of the affected families, and lack of therapy service are the critical factors that have a significant gap that requires being addressed.
They further provide information on Latino population and a spectrum of culturally specific factors in the treatment of black and Autistic in human service. They use a model that ecologically frame all the preceding studies about the Latino and black children suffering from autism. This source will provide a broad viewpoint for understanding the experience of black and autism children.
American Academy of Pediatrics. (2014). Black, Latino Children With Autism More Likely to Regress Than Whites. Retrieved January 11, 2017: https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/Black,-Hispanic-Children-With-Autism-More-Likely-to-Regress-Than-Whites.aspx
The Academy provides a description of the development and the regression that is experienced by a child living with autism condition. They sight out that the child will suffer the loss of social and mental skills and lack of comprehension in language which occurs mostly in black children with autism condition. The researcher has analyzed both medical and demographic data for over 1353 pre-school going children to assess the impact of the health on the education experience. The author develops a research result showing more than 27% of the students enrolled in...
