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nfant and toddler Disorder
For this assignment you will review a single scholarly article in the APUS Online Library and summarize what it says about a specific infant and toddler disorder of your choice (Infantile Autism,
Tay-Sachs Disease, Sickle Cell Anemia and Cerebral Palsy are some examples). This 2-3 page paper must be a review of scholarly research, not commercial Psychology Today, Wikipedia or WebMD
style publications or self-help or parent support organization material (the latter is very valuable to families in need of easy to digest and access information, but isn?t applicable to this
assignment).
Your paper will start with an introductory paragraph describing the disorder you selected to read about, followed by a summary of the article and close with a review/discussion of the research
that has been conducted. Each section must be kept separate and distinct.
The introductory paragraph will give a brief description of the disorder that you have chosen and the article that you will be reviewing.
The article summary will include the following:
? Discussion of the focus of the research
? Description of the hypothesis of the study
? Description of how the study was conducted including the population that was studied, the methodology used (i.e. naturalistic observation, experiment, case study, survey, etc). How the data
was collected and analyzed
? Description of the results of the study
Your review/discussion of the article will include
? A discussion of the way the research was conducted and potential impact on results (e.g. problems with the study
methodology that might have affected its validity and/or generalizability).
? A description of three ideas inspired in you by the article.
? A description of the use, impact, or potential the research might have on the lives of children diagnosed with this disorder or their families.
You don?t have to be a professional expert to write this section. Think about it this way–if you were someone working with children facing the challenges of the disorder you selected to read
about and report on, what would you want future researchers to keep investigating that you believe could prove valuable to sufferers and their families? For example, a medical professional or
psychologist might be interested in having researchers continue to study how broad a particular diagnostic classification spectrum needs to be to avoid catching too many and too few kids in
the diagnostic net (it goes without saying that we would love to be able to diagnose accurately 100% of the time and cure everyone, but we will leave that off the table since it should be
everyone?s goal and anyone reading about a disorder could have that cross his/her mind).
For this type of academic paper scholarly publications from the APUS online library must be used. Why is the APUS online library required? Scholarly sources are found in academic journals (The
Journal of? is a good tip for identifying these) and the APUS online library has a very large set of holdings and a staff of librarians to assist. You can connect with both by clicking the Library link
while logged into your classroom. Other university libraries also carry such journals but online access is frequently restricted to those universities? enrolled students. Hard copies from
traditional ?brick-and-mortar? libraries cannot be used unless you can also provide an online copy to verify the article?s existence in digital format. This is because your instructor needs to be
able to verify that you are using actual published journal articles, the journals they are published in, their dates of publication and their authors. Although some of the following may be accessed
through links in the APUS online library, popular magazines, Wikipedia, About.com, Ask.com, newspapers, blogs or other opinion-based publications may not be used. If you are unsure about the
appropriateness of a resource, check with your instructor before using it for your assignment. The source for your article must be cited in the paper body and listed in APA style in a page
entitled ?References? attached separately to the end of your paper. (HINT: since this is a review of a single scholarly article, your reference page will only contain only SINGLE source. Do not
incorporate any information outside of this SINGLE source.) The Online Library contains and excellent discussion on identifying scholarly articles in the Tutorial and Student Studies Center.
APA style can be a bit like learning a second language. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/apa/index.html is an excellent practical, how-to guide to this formatting style. Your
classroom Resources folder also contains APA formatting guides.
You don’t need to have an abstract, as is typically required for APA style, for this paper but you must include an APA formatted cover page in addition to the References page mentioned above.
The 2-3page requirement does not include the cover or reference pages and the paper must be formatted in Times New Roman or Arial font no larger than size 12 with 1? margins on all sides of
the paper body and double spaced. Length compliance is determined using these formatting rules in grading the work. Formatting will be checked on your instructor?s end and a paper that falls
short of the required length submitted in large font or with wide margins will receive a point deduction of 10% for each missing page. These consequences would result in a significant letter
grade drop, so you will want to be careful to check your work for proper formatting and other instructions compliance before submitting. Revisions cannot be allowed after students are
notified via grading feedback of these problems.
