I just finished a research paper for my English class, and now I have to have a presentation. I'm doing a video slide show, and my topic is Autism. My question is... does anyone know of a site where I can get pictures of people with Autism? Their name and age would be helpful too, but the picture is the most important thing. I have my brother who is Autistic but, well, I can't really have the entire thing about him. Any music suggestions would be helpful too, thank you!
P.S. No, I do not need any more information on the topic, just pictures would be great
Thanks again!
2007-03-29 17:53:02 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Special Education
Autistic people don't look particularly different from others, so I'm not sure what pictures would accomplish. In addition, you would really have to get permissions from the guardians of the people in question in order to talk about them publicly while showing their pictures for legal purposes.
2007-03-29 17:59:14 · answer #1 · answered by neniaf 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would be glad also to forward you a picture of my son, age 11, with autism and give you the necessary release forms for you to use the pictures. But the others are right; you cannot use pictures off the web without express permission of the website owners or the parents of the children on there. That includes publications, too.
2007-04-05 20:04:16 · answer #2 · answered by PBMom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you could *maybe* ask some of the people at the Autistic Adults Picture Project if you could use their photos. Depending on the focus of your presentation though, they may refuse. Most of the autistics over there are anti-cure, don't support ABA, don't think of autism as a "tragedy," don't hope for a future with no autistics, etc. I and a lot of other autistics wouldn't want to be in a presentation that promoted cure and spoke of hope for a future without us.
Donna Williams is an autistic who writes music. I can't think of any one of her songs in particular right now, but her music might be fitting for the presentation. (Actually, I'm listening to her songs on MusicMatch right now, I'll let you know if I think of one.) I don't know if you'd have access to her music before you have to give the presentation.
Edit: Donna Williams' "Ocean Deep" might be good for your presentation.
Edit: If you let me know what will be in your presentation, and I'm willing to appear in it, I could maybe give you a few pictures of myself. Of course, this depends on your focus.
2007-04-02 15:28:31 · answer #3 · answered by Kate 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MTV's True Life had a show about three autistic teens a few weeks back. It is on their website. Downloading it would be a copyright offense, but maybe you could refer to it in your presentation? Also, there are a few bands out there with autistic members. One has two brothers,,,there was an article in People about 6 monts back. A google search of "autistic brothers rock band" should turn them up and they may have music of their own on the site.
2007-03-30 08:07:07 · answer #4 · answered by Annie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd be glad to send you some pictures of our son. He's 12, and has high-functioning autism. But even quicker would be to do a Yahoo search of images, just typing in autism. I came up with several really nice ones when I tried it just now. There's also a beautiful painting by David Lenz called, "Sam and the Perfect World," that explores the hopes and dreams of special needs kids, and our hopes and dreams for them.
Good luck with your presentation.
2007-03-30 12:36:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One of my suggestions would be since you can't always specficly tell if someone is autistic unless that have a severe case (body language and other signs) some of them just have a touch of it and are able to function normal as everyone else in society. I would suggest for one of the first few slides to have a crowd on the street, or a group of kids and headline it AUTISM ANYONE CAN HAVE IT, and then put underneith, 'but they can be just like you and me' have you tried just merely visiting your school's special education department? (most schools have them and if there are any autistic kids in the school you could photograph them if it's alright)
2007-04-03 23:21:48 · answer #6 · answered by puretainted2006 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most people with forms of autism don't look different...but suppose I can help you anyway
go to
autismspeaks.org.....that may have some pictures..don't forget to give credit to the site for using their pictures!!!
2007-03-30 12:11:51 · answer #7 · answered by Penguin teacher 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to careful here, as you could easily breach confidentially issues.
It is illegal to take or use names & photo's of any one especially those with a disability, with out their express permission or that of their parent or guardian. This includes on-line photos etc.
May I suggest you go to a special needs school, and ask if parents/guardians would permit you take photos of the their child. You will need to be very clear in what you are going to do with the photo's, and what you will do with them when finished.
2007-03-30 19:51:25 · answer #8 · answered by Georgie 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Do you know there are laws that protect people from having their image shown or printed without their permission? They must be given the opportunity to sign a release stating that they give you their permission to show their image. Please be careful!
2007-04-06 23:20:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.isn.net/~jypsy/AuSpin/a2p2.htm
is a great site, and should have plenty of photo's and information. There are bio's of each of the people as well...
Then there's:
Temple Grandin :
http://www.templegrandin.com/
I understand what you're trying to do, so good luck on your research paper !
2007-04-06 16:12:40 · answer #10 · answered by Kate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋