Comparing the two authors

I think both of these articles were interesting to read. The viewpoints on autism are portrayed differently, yet have almost the same message. It is important that we realize, especially as teachers, that different people have different needs. It is made clear in the article on "Not Thinking in Pictures", that people view the world differently than others and understand things differently. This person in the article explained how they were able to enhance their world by learning a different way to view objects, rather than just in pictures. How things did not make sense at all to them shown without pictures.

In the same respect, the other article argued that people need to look at what autistic people can do rather than what they cannot. As teachers we need to pick up on the strengths of those children, along with all students, to accomodate them to succeed. The way the autisic individual in the other article learns and understands things directly relates to this view because this individual learned a lot and could see things other than just pictures and could see objects for what they truely were. Seeing autism as just a different way of looking at things rather than seeing it as a problem or disadvantage will help these students excell.