Autism-Articles

A child or adult with Autism or a Communication disorder will have difficulties fitting into our extremely verbal world. These difficulties can create isolation from others and threatening walls of silence. However, there is a specific sub group of people diagnosed with these disorders who have a hyper-visual system. In these cases, when the visual system is harnessed, teaching communication becomes much easier. I Rode the Train, I Want to be an Engineer Hyper-visual people are experiencing visually when speaking. Their communications may appear to be almost nonsensical rambling but in fact they are following a very logical pattern. The difference is the pattern followed is visual rather than verbal. The exchange below illustrates this point. I asked Mark, a college student, "How did you get here today?" He replied, I took the train in from Long Island. My family went to the beach (Mark was seeing himself on the train but did not say this). Maybe I...

Memory is how we move thought from our fluid attention systems to our crystal knowledge. Visual memory is a very powerful and dynamic set of systems that equips the brain with enormous capabilities. How we organize memory determines how efficient we are at thinking, responding, communicating, and comprehending. The role of memory is critical to understand when you have a child diagnosed with a Pervasive Development Disorder such as PDD-NOS, Autism or Asperger's Syndrome. Many children diagnosed with PDD-NOS may have symptoms in language processing and communication because their highly visual thinking is interfering with the development of verbal skills. A child that is a highly visual thinker and has highly visual "brains" in the family tree can show as many as 50 specific symptoms in communication, attention and memory. I call this group of children "Maverick Minds." Visual thinkers experience visually what they are thinking. They follow ...

Children with autism syndrome have a lack of effective communication skills, therefore inhibiting lifelong social skills. Parents who know what to look for at an early age can increase the chances for their child to live a somewhat normal life All children learn at their own pace, therefore making it difficult to diagnose at infancy. Infants a few months of age will typically start to babble, imitating the sounds it hears around him. While every baby develops speech at a different rate the following is a guide for the average child. At one year, can use negative phrases such as "No, want", can imitate animal sounds and noises, and says four to six simple words. At 18 months can say 10 to 15 words and can make two word sentences (i.e., "Daddy up") At 2 has a vocabulary of about 100 words and asks, "What is?" The autistic child on the other hand does not develop at this normal rate and has a difficult time building his/her vocabulary. ...

Autism is a neurologically-based disorder that affects verbal and nonverbal communication and social interaction. Autism is different for every person. No two people with autism are exactly the same. Some people with autism have difficulty with their mobility such as controlling their arms, legs or mouth muscles. And, others have difficulty with cognitive skills-like reasoning, learning or memory. The problems may range in severity and may even change over time. Research shows that autism occurs four times more often in males than females. Autism is found in all racial, ethnic and social backgrounds and families. Early signs of autism can be seen by as early as age 12 months and diagnosis can be made as early as 24 months. Early identification and treatment of autism increases the chances for improving problem skills and improves quality of life. There are several different types of disorders in the autism "spectrum" also known as "autism sp...

Autism can be defined as a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication and by restricted and repetitive behavior. Speech is only one of the aspects of communication. The body language and the tone make any speech understood better. Autistic people have difficulty in communication on all or any of the aspects of speech, body language or tone. If speech alone was regarded as communication, there is nothing weird in the communication of autistic people. More attention is drawn to the aspects other than words during communication. Hence autistic people gradually begin to avoid communicating since it becomes difficult for them to make sense in the aspects of body languages or tone. For people who only have speech disorder, technology has provided alternate 'media' which converts thought in to words. Alternately, therapy using music is also found to be of effective assistance. For autistic people who do not und...

Children with autism commonly face problems with verbal communication. This is usually due to the frequent speech and language problems associated with the disorder. Though the actual reason that these problems are faced by autistic children is unknown, many experts believe that they are the result of several conditions occurring before, during, or after the child's birth that have had an impact on the development of the brain. The inability to properly communicate verbally can make interpretation and interaction with the child's world much more difficult. The communication problems experienced vary from child to child, depending on the individual's social and intellectual development. While some may not be able to speak at all, others may maintain extensive vocabularies and can express themselves regarding complex topics. However, most children with autism experience some form of communication difficulty usually with the appropriate use of the langua...