Harnessing the power of the Internet for children with special needs.
Every family that has a child with special needs faces particular challenges, especially as it relates to communication and collaboration with and between their children, their family, caregivers, teachers and other professionals. Of course, when my girls were young, there were no social network tools [...]
There are three general groups of development in which symptoms and signs of autism might be observed. They are social interaction, language and behavior.
Social interaction: A child frequently will not reply when his or her name is called or when he or she is directly spoken to. The child may seem to not hear [...]
Social Relationships and Interaction
Many children who show mild signs of Autism do not make friends with other kids or even try to play with them. They are generally not afraid of strangers. If children get separated from their parents and it doesn’t seem to bother them, they may be showing mild symptoms of autism.
Language and [...]
Autism and Face Blindness
Many people on the Autism Spectrum report that they experience a ‘condition’ called Face Blindness.
What Face Blindness means for the individual, is that they have difficulty recognizing and remembering the faces of familiar people or remembering newly introduced persons. Sometimes the changes in a known person’s appearance, for example a hairstyle, can [...]
Damage to the frontal lobe can affect feelings of not only empathy but also of lack of compassion. And in most cases there are few feelings of guilt as a result of their behavior. This deficit can alter decisions that most likely would have been handled very differently pre-injury.
My partner often displays these deficits - [...]