Autism and Hidden Imagination: Raising and Educating Children Who Cannot Express Their Minds

Berube, Clair (2021) Autism and Hidden Imagination: Raising and Educating Children Who Cannot Express Their Minds. Healthcare, 9 (2). p. 150. ISSN 2227-9032

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Abstract

This is a reflection on an article written in 2007, entitled Autism and the Artistic Imagination: The Link between Visual Thinking and Intelligence. The author is a parent of a 6-year-old with autism who is now 19 and is non-verbal who has trouble expressing his thoughts, feelings and desires, and discusses some theories behind autism spectrum communication disorders and seeks to understand why there is so much difficulty with communication with some on the spectrum. The 2007 article employed Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory as a framework to discuss the visual and spatial learning abilities of kids with autism, and this update posits that the nonspeaking population of the autism community do indeed have different ways of understanding the world, theories of mind and awareness enough to be able to communicate if only the proper links and opportunities are provided. The lack of communication is not due to a lack of a sense of self, but of a lack of understanding of the neuro-typical community that people with autism are speaking a second language, and need help with the translation.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Journal Eprints > Medical Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2023 06:46
Last Modified: 17 Jul 2024 07:41
URI: http://repository.journal4submission.com/id/eprint/687

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