tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19421951.post7414536120661653135..comments2023-10-18T04:52:43.144-04:00Comments on Autism's Edges: The Season of TestingMothersVoxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479178355207142195noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19421951.post-29339114049260580162007-03-30T17:09:00.000-04:002007-03-30T17:09:00.000-04:00Thanks for the feedback everyone! You've inspired...Thanks for the feedback everyone! You've inspired me to try a reading version of this . . . <BR/><BR/>I think M has enough reading skills now that I can do a three sentence reading version of this and see if she remembers the first item when it's something she's read . . . <BR/><BR/>That will help sort out whether it's auditory or linguistic information that she can't store in short term memory.MothersVoxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02479178355207142195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19421951.post-3924237225460437712007-03-30T16:41:00.000-04:002007-03-30T16:41:00.000-04:00Clever, clever mom to think of ways of getting at ...Clever, clever mom to think of ways of getting at how Sweet M does things and what she needs. What matters most is what works for Sweet M. Oddly, if she is like William, you will find that the short term memory for anything BUT words is fantastic beyond belief. Use numbers or shapes, William can keep 20 items in short term memory. Use words, the whole process breaks down.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes IAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19421951.post-23891407577475727502007-03-29T22:40:00.000-04:002007-03-29T22:40:00.000-04:00Echolalia can be somewhat like thinking out loud?-...Echolalia can be somewhat like thinking out loud?---how often do we repeat what someone just said in our heads to think it over more carefully? (Especially if one is listening to a foreign language.....)<BR/><BR/>My mind kept returning to the map of heavenly motion that you have at the start of your post, and how this is just the smallest scrap representing the reality of the kosmos----so much, kristinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01104388229716638534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19421951.post-38651506373907036062007-03-29T19:03:00.000-04:002007-03-29T19:03:00.000-04:00Speaking as a psychologist...Way to go!Sadly, as C...Speaking as a psychologist...<BR/><BR/>Way to go!<BR/><BR/>Sadly, as C166 points out, you probably found out a lot. Issue being this: there's a lot of information denied us when all we rely on is nomothetic and quantitative research. Which is why the best way to do things is to mix both quantitative AND qualitative investigative methods.<BR/><BR/>In educational psychology we learn that as a David N. Andrews M. Ed., C. P. S. E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10361832306977383560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19421951.post-73667727575027196362007-03-29T18:22:00.000-04:002007-03-29T18:22:00.000-04:00Excellent experiment! How perceptive of you to de...Excellent experiment! How perceptive of you to devise that.<BR/><BR/>You probably found out just as much about sweet M in 5 minutes as the psych testers did in several hours.<BR/><BR/>Now you need to see if whether she will still remember them if she repeats to herself "in her mind", or if the statements need to be vocalized.Club 166https://www.blogger.com/profile/01816977079856902634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19421951.post-4925455926511611622007-03-29T11:55:00.000-04:002007-03-29T11:55:00.000-04:00Sweet M is a lucky girl to have someone so intuiti...Sweet M is a lucky girl to have someone so intuitive and patient...<BR/>' so that she has a few extra seconds to try to formulate the expressive language she needs to reply to the question at hand.'<BR/>We have this and the echolalia issues too. I agree with you, that when you think of the chaos of information slipping in and out, it's easy to understand their frustration.<BR/>Best wishesMaddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05828186178060722812noreply@blogger.com