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Mar 152 min read
Development of Theory of Mind in Autism
Theory of Mind (ToM) is a critical aspect of social cognition and undergoes significant developmental changes from infancy to adulthood....
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Feb 164 min read
Theory of Mind in ChatGPT:
Theory of Mind (ToM) has been applied not only to humans and animals but also to Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. The extent to wh
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Jan 13 min read
Communicating Beyond Words: The Transformative Power of Art for Autistic Individuals
Art activities have shown to be highly beneficial for autistic individuals (Vrisaba et al. 2021) because art offers a unique medium...
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Sep 20, 20243 min read
More Myths about Autism:
‘Autistic individuals always say what they think / or what they want to say’ There is a common misconception that autistic individuals...
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Sep 4, 20242 min read
Sophisticated echolalia:
Imitation as a Social Tool in Autism Though the broken mirror hypothesis  predicts that autistic individuals should show severe...
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Jul 19, 20245 min read
One of the Myths About Autism:
‘Autistic people don’t do metaphors’ Because of their literal interpretation, autistic children do experience difficulties in...
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Jul 5, 20242 min read
The second book in the ‘Autism: Becoming a Professional Parent’ series has been released
After examining sensory perception in autism in the first book, the newly released second instalment focuses on communication and...
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Feb 11, 20234 min read
Telepathy:
Is it a supernatural or natural phenomenon? It depends. For example, if we see ‘telepathy’ as something ‘unscientific’ and ‘not worthy’...
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Sep 30, 20224 min read
'Involuntary echolalia'
There are other types of echolalia that are difficult to explain, for example, involuntary echolalia , when the person blurts out words...
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Sep 16, 20225 min read
Communicative echolalia in autism
Though echolalia can be non-communicative , in many cases it is used for communication. Parents of autistic children (with echolalia) can...
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Sep 2, 20224 min read
Non-communicative echolalia in autism:
If it’s not for communication, what’s the point? As I didn’t know much at the time, I made a mistake thinking that as soon as my son...
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Aug 19, 20224 min read
Signs or Mimes:
Which is better for autistic individuals? Although sign language was first developed as a means of communication for the deaf, it has...
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Apr 15, 20222 min read
Guidance for communicating and interacting with autistic people
Autistic people have unique ways of communicating and interacting that are rooted in their unique ways of thinking and experiencing the...
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Apr 1, 20223 min read
Fluent Speakers – So What’s the Problem?
Some individuals with ASD (especially those with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome) possess well-developed spoken language,...
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Jan 22, 20223 min read
Bilingualism in Autism:
To speak (another language) or not to speak (with an autistic child)? Typically developing children in multilingual families tend to pick...
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Nov 5, 20212 min read
Late talkers
Not much is known about the language trajectories of non-verbal and minimally verbal children yet. However, the number of research...
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Oct 29, 20215 min read
Lack of expressive verbal language – ‘autistic muteness’:
Why can’t my child speak? It was estimated that about one third (Bryson 1996) to one half (Lord & Paul 1997) of autistic people never...
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Oct 22, 20214 min read
Early vocalisations and babbling in autistic babies
At the age of about four months the baby starts babbling and producing different sounds. Vocalisations Interestingly, during the first six...
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Oct 15, 20214 min read
Non-Verbal Languages in Autism
We assume that language is necessary verbal (i.e., comprising of words). That is why we say that children are verbal if they can talk (no...
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Oct 8, 20215 min read
Is Atypical Cry an Early Biomarker for Autism?
At about the same age all typically developing children, no matter what culture they are born into, manifest similar patterns of speech...
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