Daily Excerpt: Understanding the Challenge of "No" for Children with Autism (McNeil) - No Running
Excerpt from Understanding the Challenge of "No" for Children with Autism (McNeil) - Chapter 2 No Running Raise your hand if you have found yourself plugging along on a multiple-choice test when you were stopped cold, or at least had to slow down and look more carefully at a question stated in the negative: “Which statement is NOT correct?” Or worse yet, a double negative: “Which answer does not disagree with the following statement?” Huh? Okay, slow down. I’m looking for the incorrect answer and the answer that agrees with the statement. Why did the instructor have to be so tricky? As my hand is elevated along with yours, I admit to having gotten more than a few of these answers wrong throughout my education. In my groove, working steadily along, I was busy looking for the correct answers, not the incorrect ones, and I didn’t read the question carefully enough. As scholars, it is our responsibility to read carefully and decipher the negatives in order to respon