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Enhancing Education for Autism: Technology's Role in Supporting Learning

Discover how technology can empower students with autism in educational settings. This guide explores effective search strategies for identifying resources on this topic, emphasizing the use of keywords and Boolean operators. Learn techniques such as truncation and wildcards to refine your searches in databases. Understand the use of controlled vocabulary for better disambiguation in research. Whether you're a teacher, parent, or researcher, this resource will help you navigate the intersection of technology and autism education.

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Enhancing Education for Autism: Technology's Role in Supporting Learning

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  1. Laura DeLancey, 2011 DAtabase Search Strategies

  2. Identify your topic Identify keywords Think associatively! Step 1:

  3. How can technology help students with autism?

  4. How can technology help students with autism?

  5. technology computers students Education classroom autism Autism spectrum Developmental disabilities

  6. Boolean operators: AND OR NOT

  7. “A” AND “B”

  8. “A” OR “B”

  9. “A” NOT “B”

  10. *can be used to represent one or more letters Examples: educat* education, educating, educational Auti* autism, autistic **** Truncation ****

  11. Wildcard symbols can vary between databases, but here are the most common usages: ? Represents an unknown character # represents an optional character +?#?# Wildcards ?#?#+

  12. Examples: Wom?n women, woman Col#r color, colour +?#?# Wildcards ?#?#+

  13. word1N[number] word2: word1 and word2 will be within N words of one another, in any order. word1W[number] word2: word1 and word2 will be within N words of one another, in the order they were entered. Proximity

  14. Example: tax N5 reform Tax reform, reform of income tax Example: educational W5 reform Educational reform, educational measures which encourage reform NOT: steps to reform education Proximity

  15. (A OR B) AND C A OR (B AND C) Parentheses and Quotes

  16. Allow you more control over your search Example: (add OR adhd) AND “classroom control” Parentheses and Quotes

  17. Examples: Subject Headings, Indexes, Thesauri Purpose: disambiguation, standardization Controlled Vocabulary

  18. Controlled Vocabulary which term should you use? • Car • Automobiles • Vehicle • Transportation • Hot rod

  19. Controlled Vocabulary “Jaguar” = ?

  20. How do you find all the articles written by Deborah Shaw, aka Deb Shaw, aka D. A. Shaw, aka Dr. Deborah Ann Shaw? Controlled Vocabulary

  21. Most databases will have a list of Subject Headings, an Index, or a Thesaurus to help you find resources using a controlled vocabulary.

  22. Any questions??

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