Representación del TEA en los medios de comunicación: análisis de un periódico generalista

Sanz‐Cervera

2020

IJERPH

Social campaigns are carried out to promote autism spectrum disorder (ASD) awareness, normalization, and visibility. The internet helps to shape perceptions of Asperger syndrome and autism. In fact, these campaigns often coincide with the increase in searches for both diagnoses on Google. We have two study objectives: to use Google Trends to identify the annual time points from 2015 to 2019 with the highest Google search traffic in Spain for the terms “autism” and “Asperger”, and to identify news and trending topics related to ASD that took place during the weeks with the highest number of Google searches for these terms. Google Trend, MyNews and Trendinalia were used to analyze the volume of searches and trending topics related to ASD. As a result, social marketing campaigns, social networks and the publication of news items act as powerful voices that can provide a realistic or sensationalist picture of the disorder. For this reason, we concluded that campaigns play an important role in the normalization of ASD, and that it is important for organizations concerned with the visibility and social inclusion of people with ASD to check the way ASD is portrayed through the internet, media, and social networks.

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

What Motivates Internet Users to Search for Asperger Syndrome and Autism on Google?

Mínguez

Sanz‐Cervera

2020

IJERPH

“…The platforms chosen to carry out our study were press (print and digital), Google, and Twitter. In the case of press analysis, a lot of previous research has investigated the image of functional diversity in the press, acting as traditional mass media [13,[22][23][24][25][26]; however, there is no considerable previous research regarding this issue in Spain. Therefore, we intended to analyze it.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prior studies carried out to assess the effectiveness of these kind of campaigns have used different strategies [1,2,4,6,9,13,15,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]. Some of them have focused their efforts on analyzing the presence of content related to campaigns in the media, particularly in the press.…”

Section: Previous Studies On the Impact Of Awareness Campaigns On Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of them have focused their efforts on analyzing the presence of content related to campaigns in the media, particularly in the press. Specifically, there are studies that have analyzed the frequency and treatment received in press of campaigns on diagnoses such as autism [13,22], Down syndrome [23], rare diseases [24,25], or functional diversity in general [26].…”

Section: Previous Studies On the Impact Of Awareness Campaigns On Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Today Is My Day: Analysis of the Awareness Campaigns’ Impact on Functional Diversity in the Press, on Google, and on Twitter

Sanz‐Cervera

Mínguez

2021

IJERPH

(1) Every day, people with functional diversity face different kinds of difficulties that pose a barrier to their social inclusion. These difficulties often go unnoticed by most citizens. Social networks are a powerful tool to sensitize the population. With this objective, different organizations such as associations, federations, foundations, and other institutions have promoted campaigns through the celebration of world days for different types of functional diversity. This research aims to monitor and analyze the impact of these social campaigns in Spain, including Asperger’s syndrome, rare diseases, Down syndrome, autism, hearing and visual impairment, cerebral palsy, dyslexia, ADHD, spina bifida, disability, and dyscalculia world days, between 2015 and 2020. (2) The impact of each campaign on the press, Google, and Twitter has been analyzed using: MyNews, Google Trends, and Trendinalia. (3) The results suggest a close relationship between the impact on the number of pieces of news generated in the press, the searches on Google, and the hashtags in high positions on Twitter. (4) The campaigns with the greatest levels of success are those whose diagnoses involve greater difficulties in adaptive behavior. These results can provide some practical implications for future campaigns.

“…Education programs focused on ASD have been proven effective (Gardiner and Iarocci, 2014; Gillespie‐Lynch, Brooks, Someki, et al., 2015; Love, Toland, Usher, et al., 2019) and could be more accurately modified to address changes in the new categorization of the disorder. In this sense mass media and cultural products, which are very important moderators of our beliefs, nowadays refer to ASD (Lacruz‐Pérez, Tárraga‐Mínguez, Pastor‐Cerezuela, et al., 2020; Stern and Barnes, 2019). Previous studies analysed how the mass media depicts ASD (Nordahl‐Hansen, Øien, and Fletcher‐Watson, 2018; Tang and Bie, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do labels matter? Analysis of teachers' self‐efficacy towards the autism spectrum disorder depending on the diagnostic label used (ASD or Asperger's)

Research in Spec Educ Needs

Cerezuela

Lacruz‐Pérez

et al. 2022

Changes in the classification of autism and Asperger's syndrome led to changes in social perception of ASD. Since last criteria, studies indicate higher levels of stigma towards ASD than towards Asperger's. These prejudices are barriers to inclusive education. Thus, it is relevant (1) to evaluate preservice teachers' self-efficacy towards the label of ASD; (2) to evaluate pre-service teachers' selfefficacy towards the label of Asperger's and (3) to compare those results to analyse whether the use of different diagnostic labels brings about different levels of self-efficacy. One hundred and eighty-six primary education pre-service teachers participated in the current study. Two adaptations of the Autism Self-Efficacy Scale for Teachers (ASSET) were used: a version with the label of 'ASD' (n = 96) and another for 'Asperger's' (n = 90). The scores obtained by the group asked about ASD were high according to the ASSET score range, while the scores obtained by the group asked about Asperger's were medium. After comparing the results, participants asked about the label ASD showed higher levels of self-efficacy than participants asked about Asperger's. These results could be a consequence of the consolidation of the ASD diagnosis among society and the higher presence of children with ASD in schools and cultural products, among other factors.