Posted on 11/12/2022 12:56:01 PM PST by Morgana
I don’t remember when it started but I was almost thirteen when it ended. From ten to thirteen it was just once every three months or so. Before that was five days a week.
My best friend’s son has level 2 Autism. He will never live alone and will always depend on my best ladyfriend and her husband for everything. He’s seven and is still potty training, on top of communication issues thanks to having had hearing difficulty until he was a toddler. He still speaks his own language (which we call, “Axican”), although with speech therapy he’s getting a lot better.
Maybe high-functioning kids can benefit from some form of this, but we reward and punish children for their behaviors every day to varying degrees and results. It’s how people learn, but kids who are farther into the spectrum won’t really get a lot out of the intense version of this, I don’t think. My friends’ son has benefitted more widely from longer-term, patient reinforcement of preferred behaviors.
Autism literally translates to, “Abnormal condition of oneself”, leaving some unable to understand hardly anything beyond their own needs and desires, although it depends on the person. It’s why level 3 kids tend to isolate and don’t like social interaction - it’s just overwhelming.
I have a young man whose daughter was having issues in school. The school said it was autism /ADHD etc and that she MUST be medicated to attend school. They transferred to a school closer to work. Shockingly enough, a school teacher asked the parents a question and then indicated the childs problem was a hearing issue and not ADD, ADHD nor autism. Gave them the number to a really specialized ENT and the discovery of a hearing problem that saved the child from years of drug abuse for a situation that can’t be medicated. Their beautiful little girl had to wear special noise canceling headphones for one of her ears because she can’t (as of yet) filter out and coordinate sounds. She hears things seperately in each ear.
Thank you for the first hand information.
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