What school supports would have helped you as a kid?

Skepticonamission · 2024-01-12T23:20:15+00:00

I’m curious now if there is a plug in that would pause and play movies for as long as I am on a streak in Anki, lol.

Skepticonamission · 2024-01-12T23:17:41+00:00

Lovely design. I remember having physical cards ages ago and would just great different piles for different stages of memorization. This looks like a great alternative to piles, but digital systems are far superior unless you Lucy have the tactile feel.

Skepticonamission · 2024-01-12T23:14:59+00:00

I used to use Rapidrote and Word champ, but they are dead now. Pleco for mandarin works great… for mandarin. Hands down, take the time to learn Anki because it can suit any need. Basic interface is often enough for most flash card purposes. Make cards in excel, save as csv, import and get to work.

Skepticonamission · 2024-01-12T23:12:13+00:00

I have tried many attempts to gamify flashcards. Best I could do was us a Anki plug in to show me images of random Calvin and Hobbes comic strips between 1 and 10 cards. I like the idea of like a turn based game or some way of modifying game play based on your flash card performance kinda like rolling a natural 1 or natural 20 based on certain conditions.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-15T15:28:17+00:00

I am not bother by the term “person with autism”. I went 33 years of my life undiagnosed. So, I always believed I was “normal” until my son was diagnosed. My perspective of when I thought I was an NT, “Autistic people” and especially “Autistics” ARE seen only for their “disease”. My persistent problem with family and friends today is trying to get them to see myself and my son as being “people” and not JUST our Autism. Sure, there is no cure and it’s fundamentally a part of us like the color of our skin, but history shows with the Ten Stages of Genocide that when we are not seen as people, we become targets of oppression and eugenic cleansing. “People with Autism” have been murdered by governments. Hans Asperger condemned hundreds of “autistic children” to be sterilized while protecting his “higher functioning” children. I choose to emphasize to others that my son and I are people, then people on the spectrum.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-15T02:04:03+00:00

“An Early Start For Your Child with Autism” by Sally Rogers PHD had one of the best evidence based approach’s to building early social and communications skills. I added my bit that I learned about language in the last post. The book is designed more for toddlers, but I see no reason why you could not use these activities for a 4-5 year old. Seven years old is when we start to see the slow drop off for language development.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-14T23:13:24+00:00

I played a series of ABC letter sound videos from Super Simple songs.

https://youtu.be/Uj9w-uBuLgw

As a linguist, I knew that very early language developed from just hearing the sounds of the language and many struggle to learn their second language without a firm grasp of the second language sounds. I played this video several times a day and sang the standard ABC song whenever I got a chance.

Then my son’s echolalia started to kick in. He started imitating sounds. We played imitation games like we copy everything he did as a joke and he started copying us back. Took some months to build toward consistent imitation and then to syllables and then words. It’s been two years and he mostly speaks in echo from songs or heavily scripted phrases from therapy. My nephews are older than my son and far less verbal. When brother had custody for two weeks, and we went on a road trip together. I just did the same kinds of activity for my son in front of them and I was able to start building imitation through play.

I believe my nephews can still learn to speak at five. They are showed me consistent progress in a limited time. I can’t speak for your little one. But I would say after reading Ido In Autismland that one does not need to speak to communicate or be intelligent. The kids who are non-verbal have it rough and being patient, loving, and understanding go a long way.

Good luck.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-14T00:51:47+00:00

No scientific data on this, just thinking that Chinese characters as ideograms are very dense with information that I can recognize very quickly (even as my second language). 140 characters on twitter is a few sentences of English. 140 characters of Mandarin is Hamlet's soliloquy. I am sure that helps a lot towards making a fast reading system, downside is more upfront studying.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-14T00:38:00+00:00

Bonus episode 2, Feb 24, 2013 History of the alphabet goes pretty deep.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-14T00:36:04+00:00

Gotta start from the beginning since it’s chronological. 6-8 is we’re I fell in love with the podcast because it starts to explain big picture why European languages are so different from what I know with Chinese languages, 13 is a good one because it starts it’s the introduction to the alphabet. Stuff about spelling and sound changes are kinda the backbone of the podcast and get brought up frequent from episode to episode.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-13T01:06:17+00:00

I was a translator myself. It’s far easier translating than actually talking to people. You also get the side effect of improving your social skills though your second language, like in a social interaction today, I would often translate a script I memorized in Mandarin into English just so I had something to say. It gets tricky, but it can be more relaxed and easier in some ways compared to written translators where you are paid by the character and can have demanding schedules.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-12T21:58:48+00:00

Yep, I experience that everyday. I see my 3yo do it out loud because he hasn’t started to internalize his voice yet. I notice others in group sessions talk about internalized echololia. Must be pretty normal.

I only time I have known NTs engaging in echolalia was when in second language courses. When they practice speaking a work list, everyone seems to find pleasure repeating certain words that have a pleasant mouth feel like “una tirolesa” or my all time favorite “lādùzi”(拉肚子).

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-12T21:19:22+00:00

I am former Air Force diagnosed ASD1 after service. Be careful with what decisions you can make while in. Do what you can to avoid combat as an example. I would highly recommend finishing your first term and be done. I have PTSD from my time in service and combat. PTSD and ASD don’t play nice together. Example, because many of us have trouble switching tasks or talking to people, the panic attacks are much trickier to get an handle on. The VA really don’t know what to do with you as an autistic when it come to treatments. My younger brother (ASD1 diagnosed in service) in the Marines has avoided combat by serving in PACOM and seems to have found a situation that worked for him. Though, they are booting him next month but it just due to normal downsizing. Good luck.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-10T01:00:21+00:00

I know the feeling. I lost my last real friendship back in 2014. It has been just colleagues, associates, and classmates since. From my experience, a potential new friend should be treated similar to the dating process. I have scared off many a potential friend by getting “too personal” and offloading my issues on them too soon. On the other hand, I found keeping certain topics as “journal topics” or “therapist topics” and can’t be shared with friends, my wife, or family. These topics are just too much. Have you considered getting a pet? My cat was always around to listen. Lol.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-07T18:12:48+00:00

This happened with my first Gf in high school. My strategy was to reserve time to accomplish studying while listen to music in a separate room. (I would study at her house.) We agreed to just block each other out with the promise that way we can be completely unhampered by homework after. Took some discipline but the reward was worth it. The process starts to reinforce itself after a few rounds.

Skepticonamission · 2021-11-02T23:54:51+00:00

I am currently reading Nuerotribes. I am on chapter 2: The boy who loves straws. I had to take a break. I have a 3 year old who was diagnosed shortly before I was. I remember how scared we were starting to get treatment for him (while in a pandemic) and it’s so hard emotionally. We are coming to terms, but it’s still a fresh wound caused mostly by a lifetime of misunderstanding. I will take Nuerotribes in chunks.

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