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]]> By: Kristina Chew, PhD http://www.blisstree.com/articles/thinking-autistically/comment-page-1/#comment-530172 Kristina Chew, PhD Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:15:15 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/thinking-autistically/#comment-530172 b sharp, you're welcome to "flood" anytime.....<a href="http://www.kristinachew.com">my son</a> is not "visual" in many ways that Grandin describes. He has a strong visual memory for certain very specific places and settings, but these are (I think) limited in number. He has struggled mightily to learn to read; he still confuses some of the letters. PECS always had only limited effective for him; Charlie prefers to use his voice. I've been amazed at his learning to play the piano----it seems it is a way for him to read (the sheet music---very simple songs right now) and get immediate feedback in the form of the music. Brett, what boxes I have, as yet unopened, from the days when Charlie was first diagnosed in St. Paul, 1999! b sharp, you’re welcome to “flood” anytime…..my son is not “visual” in many ways that Grandin describes. He has a strong visual memory for certain very specific places and settings, but these are (I think) limited in number. He has struggled mightily to learn to read; he still confuses some of the letters. PECS always had only limited effective for him; Charlie prefers to use his voice. I’ve been amazed at his learning to play the piano—-it seems it is a way for him to read (the sheet music—very simple songs right now) and get immediate feedback in the form of the music.

Brett, what boxes I have, as yet unopened, from the days when Charlie was first diagnosed in St. Paul, 1999!

]]> By: b sharp http://www.blisstree.com/articles/thinking-autistically/comment-page-1/#comment-530169 b sharp Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:23:50 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/thinking-autistically/#comment-530169 The problem with Grandin is that it took years before she retracted her position that <i>all</i> autistics think in pictures, but it's now accepted as orthodoxy by too many people (yet she still claims that they do in her book Animals in Translation, but I'll let that slide for now). And while I don't doubt that about around 70 percent of autistics may be in fact visual thinkers, not all of them may be to the extent of which she decribes about herself. When I was younger I was much more visual than I am today, but it still wasn't so much like Grandin is/was. I'd add more, but I don't want to flood this place with paragraphs. Donna William has a page on the varieites of autistic thinking. Not that I'd call it the last word, or anything. The problem with Grandin is that it took years before she retracted her position that all autistics think in pictures, but it’s now accepted as orthodoxy by too many people (yet she still claims that they do in her book Animals in Translation, but I’ll let that slide for now).

And while I don’t doubt that about around 70 percent of autistics may be in fact visual thinkers, not all of them may be to the extent of which she decribes about herself. When I was younger I was much more visual than I am today, but it still wasn’t so much like Grandin is/was. I’d add more, but I don’t want to flood this place with paragraphs. Donna William has a page on the varieites of autistic thinking. Not that I’d call it the last word, or anything.

]]> By: Brett http://www.blisstree.com/articles/thinking-autistically/comment-page-1/#comment-530167 Brett Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:29:29 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/thinking-autistically/#comment-530167 It is also hard to understate the effect the internet has had on parents, not just of autistic children but of children of all types. I still have a three ring binder with print-outs from various usenet groups and other online groups as far back as 1994 as we were trying to learn as much as we could about autism. It is also hard to understate the effect the internet has had on parents, not just of autistic children but of children of all types. I still have a three ring binder with print-outs from various usenet groups and other online groups as far back as 1994 as we were trying to learn as much as we could about autism.

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