Youtube
Youtube is a worldwide organization which lets people upload and view majority of the videos and other auto visual clips for free. This video sharing website enables people to share views and interact with people worldwide, exchanging knowledge as well a rating, commenting on the videos viewed, and subscribing to their favorite producer.
History
Youtube was founded early 2005 in America, and was later launched that year. Google in 2006 brought Youtube for approximately 1.6 billion dollars, at which point Youtube was a non- profitable company, and the user ratings were low. Since then there are almost 1 million have joined Youtube, and “Google is also reported to be planning a "major overhaul" of YouTube this year, with the introduction of channels for topics such as arts and sports” (Halliday, 2011).
User content and accessibility
What Youtube has to offer
There is a variety of auto visual clips which are available on Youtube and these include television series, movie clips, music videos, and an alternative section for amateurs to upload their videos. This section contains content such as video blogs, short original clips (personal experiences), movies and educational clips. Watching clips from Youtube can be done directly by accessing, www.youtube.com from the chosen search engine and searching material of your interest. Click on below link to connect with YouTube’s home page http://www.youtube.com/ . It can also be done through other websites such as blogs, social networking sites, commercial pages, or personal web pages. This network is supported by the main web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, and Safari, therefore automatically playing videos in the flash back format. There is however ‘a limit of the length of content to clips (music, movies) due to copy right violations, (Karch, 2011). Although within saying this Youtube has partnered with some commercial providers to allow legal viewing of some clips over a particular length.
In order to upload videos you need to create an account by registering with Youtube for free. Downloading videos is restricted and Youtube may not allow you to down load specific clips, and this is due to user settings. There are third party tools which allow you too, download the videos, however they are not supported by Youtube and may breach the copyright, and user agreements therefore it is not advisable for one to use them.
Guildelines
Youtube does outline an article posted on their main page called community guidelines, which is a brief summary of what is deemed acceptable use of this network. See attached link to read guidelines. http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines
What Youtube has to offer in relation to Aspergers Syndrome?
To connect this use of Youtube to the overall purpose of this blog follows a slight description of a setting in which an Occupational Therapists may work in. This section is based on the practice of Occupational Therapy, and the variety of clips that Youtube offers, in relation to Aspergers Syndrome. This is a particular condition witnessed by many Occupational Therapists, working in a Pediatrics. This particular disorder I witnessed in the middle of last year, while working in a Community Pediatric setting, with children in local schools. Majority of the children displayed significant behavioral and learning difficulties, within the schooling environment.
Aspergers syndrome is defined as “a Neurobiological disorder of an unknown cause, which cognitive and communication skills develop normally in the first few years” (Atchison, 2007). Heidi Shepherd defines it as “a lifelong learning difficulty so it affects people in the terms of social impairment, social interaction and communication”. Sensory Integration is used because majority of the children have difficulty knowing which sensations to take in and what sensory or information needs to be disregarded. This is due to them functioning with a lack of awareness of what is around them or they become over whelmed with what has occurred in their environment. Sensory Integration allows the child to deal with these issues and develop greater social skills.
Located below are 5 different videos from Youtube which vary from interviews, education sideshows and videos demonstrating signs symptoms and treatments for children with
Aspergers Syndrome. Clips on Youtube from different sources, in regard to children with Aspergers Syndrome.
A 10 Year Old Boy with Aspergers
Link to cliphttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyprxFLr-Ms
To begin with the first one called ‘A 10 Year old boy with Aspergers’. This is a clip where someone is asking a boy POE (personal, occupation, and environment) questions, and the camera is fixated on the boy answering the questions. Some person questions that are asked of the boy are, what is your name, age, what do you like. Whereas an occupation question could be, what do you do with your time, do you have a job, finally an environment questions is based on the environment in which one lives. So asking questions like where you live, what school do you go too? These set of questions allow the occupational therapist gather a based on what his interests are, and the severity of his condition. Many of the answers boy displays in the clip was evident in a lot of the boys where were asked similar questions when I first came into contact with them last year.
What is Aspergers Syndrome
Link to clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmOSMc2Sepg
This is an educational side show by Craig Kendall, who is the author of the resources called ‘The Aspergers Syndrome Survival guide. This is another method that people chose to post information for the other users to view. During the slide show presentation he outlines the four main symptoms children with Aspergers Syndrome may have. Which are difficulty in social functioning, sensory issues, obsessive interests, and insistence routines. When I working with children with Aspergers Syndrome, their social skills were poor as they have little to no understanding of others feelings, and how to communicate with their peers, this often resulted in them being ‘cut off’ from others within their school year.
Occupational Therapy Practice; Pediatrics’, (Sensory Integration)
Link to clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY_JKPt7spc
This is a short clip on Aki who works with children in a Pediatrics’ setting. He states early on in the clip that working in the felid of Pediatrics’ may result in Occupational Therapists practicing in schools, the community or clinical based practices. The clip also names some of conditions in which Occupational Therapists are faced with in this setting, in particular Autism, as Aspergers is one the Autistic Scale and both can be treated with sensory integrations. This therapeutic tools promotes social interaction, gross and fine motor skills, communication. It provides a challenge often due to placing the child out of their comfort zone, in a control environment.
Aspergers Syndrome
This is an interview that is conducted by a Manchester reporter, with Heidi Shepherd from the National Autism Society and David Robinson who is an Aspergers Syndrome sufferer. This interview was originally used for the Manchester news; it was then uploaded in 2009. The uploading of a news report means the viewers aren’t getting one particular structure of information being shared, and it ensures diversity among clips made reedy to users. This clip discusses David’s struggles, and the steps that he has taken to ensure maximum independence. It also allows Heidi to inform the viewers of what Aspergers is, its place in society, and new developments that have occurred. This clip is specifically set towards parents who currently have a child with Aspergers to inform them of some of the challenges their child may entail and how best to support them, with what resources, groups, and funding is made available to them. This is a supportive clip to watch as it is informative, information shared is relevant worldwide, and can be used to aid parents decisions much like the information, clips, pamphlets and books that were given to parents at the local schools I worked at over a 4 week period.
Aspergers Syndrome explained for Children
Link to clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9eATBV-_lg
The use of cartoon animation allows children with Aspergers syndrome to understand their condition more, in a fun and educational manner. This is a television series created for children, and highlights there it’s not you but the way your brain grew. During the diagnosis process many children have little to no understanding of what condition they have been labeled with, let alone grasp supportive knowledge to know what is going to occur to their body functions. This ensures the child can relate, gain awareness and have over all more knowledge.
Conclusion
This demonstrates a few techniques and methods that information based apon Aspergers Syndrome can be uploaded, viewed and commented. There is a array of clips, interviews, television series, all to display the content of what Aspergers Syndrome is, and its relevance to pediatric settings.
References
Halliday, J. (2011). Google ‘to boost spend on original Youtube content. Retrieved April, 28th, 2011, from http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/07/google-to-boost-spend-on-original-youtube-content
Heidi shepherd online interview from Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgElUUJv1JY&feature=fvst
Karch, M.(2011). Youtube Explained; Overview of the Google Video Sharing Tool. Retrieved April, 28th, 2011, From http://google.about.com/od/moreaboutgoogleaps/p/youtubeprofile.htm
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