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You And Me, Suzanne J. Gikas

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Poem

Light Thieves, Pernille Fraser

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.

Seeing In Color: How Are Teachers Perceiving Our Diverse Autistic Students?, Merida Lang

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

Although the discipline gap between Black and White students is well documented and the discipline gap between students with disabilities and those without has also been researched, the discipline gap between autistic students of color and White students has received very little attention. This essay asks educators to consider the ways in which autistic students of color exist in a specific cross section of double-discrimination and considers what can be done to reduce unconscious bias, including developing a broader and more diverse understanding of autistic culture.

Brain On Spectrum, Wendi Powers

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.

Oughtism And Oughtistic Narratives In The Lives Of Autistic People And Their Families, Mairi Evans

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.

Understanding The Spectrum, Rebecca Burgess

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.

Never Present, Pernille Fraser

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.

The Moon Is Especially Full: Notes On Poetry, Teaching, Tests, And [Autistic] Intelligence, Chris Martin

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This essay explores the ways in which poetry can help autistic students utilize creative expression and develop tools for self-advocacy.

Truffaut’S L’Enfant Sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970): Evoking Autism And The Nascent “Eugenic Atlantic”, Joy C. Schaefer

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

This essay analyzes François Truffaut’s L’Enfant sauvage (The Wild Child, 1970) as an early representation of autism that metaphorizes the neurodiverse child as the colonial subject. The film takes place in 1798, only a decade after the French Revolution, and depicts the true events of the “wild boy of Aveyron,” a feral child found in the Southern French forest when he was twelve years old. Before the film’s production, Truffaut—who also plays the boy’s teacher, Dr. Jean-Marc Itard—collected articles and books on autism and viewed videos of autistic children to create his main character’s behavioral patterns. The film …

Woman Warrior Within, Wendi Powers

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.

Being Greta Thunberg, Linda Chown

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.

Note From The Editors: This Moment Of Arrival, Robert Rozema, Christopher Bass

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture

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Ignite: Not Just Surviving Pbis, But Succeeding: 1st Year Success Toolkit (Group 2), Katrina Smith-Paggett, Victoria Pierrie, Satin Booker, Kira Cooper

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will target schools that are in the installing phase or planning phase. However, the presentation could also benefit schools that may not have had a successful implementation year due to a variety of reasons.

The presentation will focus on 7 critical components (tools) Stockbridge Elementary School utilized during Year 1 of implementing the PBIS framework. By using these tools SES reduced the number of office referrals by 33%. The 7 success tools are: Community Buy-In, Strategic Introduction to Student Body, Planned PBIS Leadership Meetings, PBIS Student Ambassadors, Constant Reflection of Practices / Procedures, Effective and Consistent Acknowledgement System, …

Process Of Using Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Using Photogrammetry For Preservation, Daniel Lee

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

When conducting photogrammetry using aircraft, there are limits as to where it can go and what it can do. After visiting the Republic of Kosovo and working with a Cultural Heritage without Borders, the process in which one should collect images and scans for preservation purposes was brought clear. Using small unmanned aerial systems proved to be a much better alternative when compared with traditional aircraft. Using multiple UAS over a variety of different terrains, it was discovered that UAS were a much more feasible option. The purpose of this research is to help cultural heritage organizations collect images for …

Career Competencies: More Than Students, More Than Athletes, Melanie Canfield, Sydney Jones, Christian Pierre, Olivia Roa

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The ability for student-athletes to translate athletic experiences into career competencies is valuable, but student-athletes may not know how to leverage the career competencies they have gained through sports participation. In addition, student-athlete’s time demands may limit access to career support services. This project summarizes the perceived career competencies of student-athletes at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU). Embry-Riddle student-athletes compete in the Sunshine State Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division II. Findings from one-on-one interviews with 16 current or past ERAU student-athletes led to the creation of an infographic, containing five word clouds. Among ERAU student-athletes, the word …

Chemical Abundances For Sirius Using Erau's Supercomputer Vega, Allison Acosta, Jason P. Aufdenberg, Peter H. Hauschildt

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Elemental abundances in the atmosphere of Sirius A reveal a history of nucleosynthesis. Sirius A, the brightest star in the night sky, has tightly constrained fundamental parameters due to its orbit with Sirius B, a measured interferometric diameter, and a precise parallax. Its slow rotation and apparent lack of atmospheric convection suggest one-dimensional model atmospheres should be a good approximation. Recent abundance analyses of Sirius A from Landstreet (2011) and Cowley et al. (2016) have employed local thermodynamic equilibrium (LTE) models in comparison to high-resolution spectra from the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (HST/STIS), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), …

Investigating The Correlation Between Gnss Signal Scintillation And Thunderstorms, Marissa Priore, Julian Herrera Tenorio, Danayit Mekonnen, Chintan Thakrar

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have wide application in multiple sectors from daily life to industrial use. These sectors include navigation, timing, and positioning which all require a constant stream of accurate data. One aspect of maintaining the accuracy involves a deep understanding of the ionosphere and how it affects radio signals. This project takes into account an element that might impact the ionosphere: thunderstorms and their high-altitude lightning. Structures created in the ionosphere can cause scintillations, but finding if thunderstorms could initiate these structures is the main goal. Scintillation refers to fluctuations in the phase and amplitude of GNSS …

The Effectiveness Of Augmented Reality For Astronauts On Lunar Missions, Godfrey V. D'Souza

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The uses of Augmented Reality (AR) and Head-Up Displays (HUDs) are becoming more prominent in industries such as aviation, automotive and medicine. An AR device such as the Microsoft Hololens can project holograms onto the user’s natural field of view to assist with completion of a variety of tasks. Unfortunately, only a little research and development has begun in the space sector for astronauts using these HUDs. Future lunar missions could incorporate AR for astronauts to ease task load and improve accuracy. The study evaluated the usability, subjective workload, and task performance of 22 participants using the Microsoft HoloLens to …

Project Thetis, Grace Robertson

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Project Thetis is a 35-member team comprised of 4 sub-teams including design, software, electrical and logistics. Our project aims to reduce the commonality of micro-plastics by extracting them from anhydrous sand samples. Micro-plastics are the most common form of pollutant in marine systems, but in the last year have been reported in every tested ecosystem including mountain ranges around the globe, freshwater systems, and the atmosphere. We have chosen to focus on micro-plastic extraction from anhydrous sand as it is a neglected ecosystem in current efforts to remove micro-plastics from the environment. Extraction will be done using electric force attraction …

The Polar Cloud Satellite: The First Cubesat Mission To Study Noctilucent Clouds, Benjamin Banner, Ethan Deweese, Austin Gleydura, Christian Junio, Ryan Kressler, John Olafson, Michael Pope, Michael Weinhoffer, Timeo Williams

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Members of the Spaceflight Sciences, Policy, and Operations Club (SSPOC) are designing a 1U CubeSat, the Polar Cloud Satellite, that will host an ultraviolet instrument that will image noctilucent clouds. Noctilucent clouds, formally called polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs), are clouds made of ice particles and water vapor that form in the polar regions of the Earth at altitudes ranging from 76 to 85 kilometers. The formation of PMCs at much lower latitudes than usual since their discovery in the 1980s can possibly be linked to increased carbon dioxide output by humans. NASA’s Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) satellite …

An Analysis Of The Effects Of The Aviation Industry In The United Arab Emirates, Christen Bailey, Aleiya Holyoak, Julianna Snider

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

This research project analyzes the effects that the aviation industry has had on the Middle Eastern country of the United Arab Emirates. The UAE, in particular its largest city Dubai, has seen explosive growth in tourism, travel, and all-around economic status in recent decades. The country’s geographic position in the Middle East has offered unique conveniences and challenges on the path to development. Emirati-based airlines such as Emirates and Etihad Airways as well as the airports where they are based have been very financially prosperous in the 21st century. Our research study uses Gross Domestic Product (GDP) reports, travel & …

Interdependency Of Port Clusters During Regional Disasters, Fanny Kristiansson, Hannah Thomas

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Ports play a vital role in the economy of nations and provide a critical link in the supply chain. Ports form the gateway by which essential goods are received within large geographic regions. Because of their function, ports are exposed to substantial risk of flooding, storm events, sea-level-rise, and climate change. The resiliency of ports is essential for the economy, the people, and national readiness. The contribution of this research work is in providing a methodology to quantify port resiliency that is applicable at the individual port level and regionally. The research approach first defines a quantifiable measure of systematic …

Analyzation Of Awareness Methods Of Air Quality In Pristina, Kosovo And A New Method To Help Increase Awareness, Justin Lawlor

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

Power plants have become a huge problem in Kosovo and have caused the air quality to become hazardous to health, but people don’t consider it a big concern. The focus of this study is to evaluate the current methods of awareness of air pollution observed and investigate a new method to implement to increase awareness. The methods to collect this data included an interview, observations, and a media analysis. The researcher observed three methods of awareness, an air quality monitor at the U.S. Embassy, the Newborn sign, and stickers around light switches at the Rochester Institute of Technology Kosovo (RITK) …

How Vulnerable Are Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (Suas) To Cyber Attack?, Derian Bautista

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The FAA predicts that there will be ~3.4M consumer drones and ~327K commercial sUAS (sUAS, or commonly known as drones) operating in the U.S. by 2020. Drones are increasingly used by law enforcement, emergency services, utility companies, large agricultural providers, and many other economic sectors. A drone’s components align closely with that of small computing devices, with the addition of aeronautical hardware. As such, they may be susceptible to the same forms of attacks that are increasingly common among computing devices.

To test this theory, we conducted a study to identify cyber-related vulnerabilities against a consumer model drone. We conducted …

Effects From Tourism In Australia, Sarah E. Olko

Student Research Symposium (SRS)

The Great Barrier Reef is one of the seven natural wonders of the world and it is advertised as being 90 percent dead. It is home to millions of species, but its health has been declining rapidly. The point of this research was to see how local businesses in Cairns, Australia are reacting to the influx of tourists and how it is affecting them. To find this information the researcher contacted different local cairns businesses, visited a local diving company, and was able to get firsthand experience by diving and snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. The researcher found that …

Performance Evaluation For Private Higher Education Institutions Using Balanced Scorecard, Mou’Ath Hourani, Seja Abdali

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the use of balanced scorecard (BSC) specifically key Performance indicators (KPls) to establish a reference for performance evaluation in private higher Education institutions. The paper first introduces related literature review, and then presents the proposed KPls that are carefully chosen for performance evaluation in private higher education institutions ‘Then, The proposed KPls are validated by applying it to five private universities in Jordan and one benchmark International university one of these universities was named to be the Jordanian standard university after Comparing the performance results of the five universities with a benchmark …

Naomi Shihab Nye’S Sitti’S Secrets: Poetics Of Homeland, Lama Al-Mahadin

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

Sitti’s Secrets (SS) was published in 1994, one year after the Oslo Accords, which saw the Palestinians sign peace agreements with Israel. The Accords, which led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority, an interim entity to govern the West Bank and Gaza, “promised much, though in reality delivered very little that was tangible” (Hastedt & Lybeck, 2014,p. 71). But Nye was writing at a time when the Accords still exercised a hold on the global imagination with the promise of lasting peace in the region. This paper seeks to examine the story as an affective articulation of Nye’s vision …

The Aesthetics Of Jerusalem Butterflies And The Illusion Of Resistance, Hanan Ibrahim

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

In Sonata for Jerusalem Ghost (SJG) (2009), Waciny Laredj, the Algerian-French novelist, engages with one of the most, if not the most, pivotal cases that have dominated the Arab political and socio- cultural scene for more than seventy decades, namely: the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Laredj utilizes an interdisciplinary approach informed by postmodern, psychoanalytical, postcolonial, and ecological rhetoric to deal with issues pertaining to occupation, displacement, the nostalgia for the homeland, the problem of hybrid identity, and others. Elemental ecology operates as a discursive proxy that links up the different disciplines in SJG. Exploring the dynamics of this operation, I …

The Relationship Between Interest Rate Fluctuations And The Amman Stock Exchange And Real Estate: An Analytical Study, Ahmad Yousef Areiqat, Tawfiq Saleh Abdelhadi

Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies البلقاء للبحوث والدراسات

This paper aims to identify the relationship between interest rate fluctuations, the Jordanian markets of stocks, and real estate in terms of trading volume, the price index of the stock market in general, and the shares of the Jordanian real estate companies listed in Amman Stock Exchange as the Jordanian representative of the real estate market. The study was conducted on the period of 2000-2008, given the substantial fluctuations in the interest rate that those years witnessed. Through the use of Pearsons Correlation Coefficient, the study concluded the following: First, there is a positive and strong relationship between interest rate …