tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583517082558686915.post6338373885918210187..comments2023-06-08T01:05:18.243-07:00Comments on Autism All the Time: On Regression and Skillsgeosaruhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11333811132718881124noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583517082558686915.post-74655204178192935692008-08-05T19:03:00.000-07:002008-08-05T19:03:00.000-07:00Very interesting and reminds me to go easy on M wh...Very interesting and reminds me to go easy on M when she seemingly forgets things I thought she knew.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583517082558686915.post-88831657192574842692008-08-03T17:23:00.000-07:002008-08-03T17:23:00.000-07:00It is simple really. All we have to do is work out...It is simple really. All we have to do is work out what the applicable values are for this formulae to remain a positive result (at any given moment):<BR/>((((1p + 1i + 1s + 1l + 1f + 1u + 1c + 1a +1r +1n + 1e + 1g + 1c +1t) <=> d) <=> m) = w) = r<BR/>p=plan; i=intent; s=sleep; l=light; f=food; u=fluid; c=tactile, a=air, r=temperature; n=noise; e=energy; g = language; c=concept; t=time; d=distress; m=meltdown; w=awareness; r=responseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583517082558686915.post-48572907028910176152008-08-03T17:20:00.000-07:002008-08-03T17:20:00.000-07:00I forgot to write two things -- one, I live in KPF...I forgot to write two things -- one, I live in KPFA's broadcast area, so we are in a sense neighbors, and two, I really enjoyed reading your blog.Liz Ditzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455722013211350247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583517082558686915.post-44571018718997126842008-08-03T17:14:00.000-07:002008-08-03T17:14:00.000-07:00Hi, I came over from...the Autism Hub, I think.I'm...Hi, I came over from...the Autism Hub, I think.<BR/><BR/>I'm not a person with autism, I'm the mother to a more-or-less neurotypical daughter with dyslexia, and a graduate student in education. I plan to be an educational therapist.<BR/><BR/>Reading your post, I wonder if the "math regression" you write about might have some roots in difficulties with rapid automatic naming (RAN) and/or working memory challenges.<BR/><BR/>My daughter, although well-remediated for her dyslexia, continues to have difficulties with RAN and working memory, which manifest in both expected and unexpected ways.<BR/><BR/>My daughter describes the way her brain works in a couple of ways "It's like my brain needs to be defragmented" (a simile she came up with after I defragmented her sloooooow laptop) and "Most people seem to have memories that are like filing cabinets at their fingertips. Mine is in the next room, and sometimes poorly labeled."<BR/><BR/>Our native language is English, and she's not-quite fluent in Spanish. When she's been speaking and hearing Spanish for a couple of hours a day, she says, "It's like going from the radio a little bit out of tune, to, ding!ding!ding! -- the signal's coming in clear. It's suddenly no work to understand what people are saying, and I don't have to hunt so hard for words."<BR/><BR/>I haven't read enough of the autism research to know if people have been looking at RAN and working memory as sources of difficulties in autism, the way they have in dyslexia.Liz Ditzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455722013211350247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583517082558686915.post-10478475189221989082008-08-03T00:01:00.000-07:002008-08-03T00:01:00.000-07:00I got smart--I did all the math placement tests ba...I got smart--I did all the math placement tests backwards! Really, multiplication is a lot harder for me than algebra. I still make mistakes on the times tables. Oh, and I got a 94% on my last college calculus test, despite making a mistake involving 8+6 adding up to 12 somehow. <BR/><BR/>I'm not a math specialist like you, though. I'm way better with words. I can't memorize a math formula until I understand it perfectly; otherwise it's meaningless information! I think I study twice as hard and learn twice as much as my classmates, who just cram the formulas and apply them.Chaoticidealismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04403876314649447342noreply@blogger.com