You are to create an in-service presentation for clinic or school staff who work with individuals or families affected by autism spectrum disorder. Within this presentation, you are to provide the school or clinic with information addressing diversity and family factors as related to autism spectrum disorder. You are to also provide guidelines for how to best work with these families and individuals. You are required to address the concept of Cultural Competence somewhere in your presentation, which is in addition to the guidelines you present.
A diversity or family factor, for the purposes of this assignment, is any factor that affects diagnosis, access to treatment, or other outcome for an individual with autism.
As you research how to best address diversity issues and how they affect autism spectrum disorder diagnosis or interventions, you may wish to consider the following questions:
What do professionals need to know about different cultural, racial, or ethnic backgrounds as they relate to ASD?
How might specific family dynamics affect the ability to implement interventions within the clinic, home or school?
What stereotypes about families or diversity issues could impact a clinician or teacher’s work?
How should personal biases be addressed?
As a service provider or teacher, how do you build trust with families or individuals from different background than your own?
You are not asked to specifically answer these questions in your presentation, but they are provided to help guide your research. Make sure each area you address in your presentation is linked to research. Your personal experience is not appropriate to include in this assignment.
Requirements:
One PowerPoint Presentation (Please contact your instructor if you have a creative way you would rather develop this presentation.)
14 minimum slides
1 Cover slide (1st slide of your presentation)
1 Objective slide (2nd slide of your presentation)
1 Slide covering the concept of Cultural Competence (as described in Daughrity & Johnson, 2022 Chapter 9 and other articles you find in your research)
1 Reference slide (Last slide of your presentation)
10 additional slides with content addressing:
Background related to a at least three of diversity and/or family factors found in the literature and within your text. If you only want to focus on one because you found so much wonderful research, please email your instructor. Be sure to be thorough with answering “What does the literature say about working with families who identify with the various factors listed below?” Be sure you include information on at least three separate ideas, but do not present too many since you are required to provide good depth of content on each one. It is better to go into more depth on a concept than to present multiple ideas with only surface information.
Guidelines for how to best work with the families who face the issues you address within your presentation. You must present at least three separate ideas for how to best work with these families, and you do not have to provide a guideline for every area you discussed in the background.
Potential Areas to research:
Diversity: (You do NOT have to address every one of these, nor are you limited to them. They are just here for ideas)
Socioeconomic Status
Bilingual Families
Race
Ethnicity
Religion
LGBTQ+ issues
Urban vs. Rural Populations
Family Factors: (You do NOT have to address every one of these, nor are you limited to them. They are just here for ideas)
Marital Status/Conflict/Divorce
Multigenerational Homes
Blended Families
Military Families
Additional Requirements:
Each slide must contain content on the slide as well as in the presenter notes section. Think of the presenter’s notes as your narration of the slides. When you give a presentation, you don’t just read off your slides. In fact, good presentations provide bulleted ideas on the slides with more in-depth discussion coming from the presenter, rather than the presenter just reading his or her slides. Allow the information you want to convey to your audience to really come through in your notes section.
You must save your presentation as handouts, in PDF format, with no more than 2 slides per handout, and all presenter notes must display on the handouts. It seems to work best if you just you’re your presentation as a handout with one slide per page. That will allow the presenter notes to show with each slide. Alternatively, a student may wish to create a voice over with a discussion of his/her slides or video record him/herself doing the presentation and submit it in PowerPoint or .mp4/.mov format. These files are best linked to a Onedrive folder rather than directly uploaded to Canvas (Canvas can only support a certain megabyte maximum). Please contact the Help Desk for information about Ball State’s Onedrive. You can also load a video to YouTube and share a link.
Students are required to reference at least six articles found in peer-reviewed journals. You may also cite your textbook, books, and other articles, but these are in addition to the six required journal articles. APA style citations and references are required, but you should follow the formatting of the presentation delivery mode you select (i.e., PowerPoint) rather than formatting a double-spaced paper with headings. You are to have citations within each slide of your presentation, and then cite all your references on your final slide in APA style.
