Dialectical NoteBook

1. “Public awareness and public discourse about autism are approaching critical mass.”

2. “The definition rhetoric focuses of the role of communication in social interaction.”

3. “I know that something in his invention is not getting out into structure and style that it has stalled there, that he is working through the rhetorical process.”

4. ‘A spectrum that encompasses a wide range of behavior.”

5. “The goal of rhetorical listening is to generate more productive discourses.”

1. I feel this is a very power statement in this article because how much the public somewhat shuns acknowledging this discourse. In April of 2008 the first World Autism awareness Day, and this significantly how large of a discourse community this really is. The statistics of autism incidence are comparable to lightning strikes, car crashes, and the likely hood of becoming a professional athlete.

2. I found this point interesting based on the aspects of communication. There is a huge barrier between the communication of a social discourse and the autistic discourse. Many people turn away and reject this discourse because they feel if they don’t understand what is being said the idea is not important. Autistics have a different way of communicating and have a different rhetoric than a different social discourse, therefore making communication very difficult.

3. This is a quote from Paul Heilker about his son who has autism.  I realize being a father and having a son with autism is very difficult to handle. I honor his commitment to his son and how to truly to tries to understand his son. He realizes his son has the ideas in his head and can process them; he just doesn’t have the tools to access the rhetoric to communicate.

4. This is simple quote, which can have a lot of meaning behind it. I feel the more we learn and discover about Autism is the key to find an answer for better social interaction. This would diminish the gap of the social realm of the autistic community.

5. This quote describes my feeling exactly. I feel if you cannot understand by studying, then you must listen and observe what you perceive.  There are many communication barriers although, I feel both sides of the discourse communities understand this but, am unaware on how to fix it.  Listening is a keep into understanding this discourse community.