Today to share the story of the elderly high-functioning autism Bob, Bob was diagnosed with developmental delay when he was young, his symptoms are very atypical, can also be said to be atypical high-functioning autism. Xiaoming's mother is engaged in medicine, so observing children is particularly meticulous, he believes that children's emotional links, language understanding, social communication, mental health, causal logic have different degrees of deficiency, and even some strange behaviors, we call stereotyped behavior.
When Xiaoming's mother listened to the popular science knowledge I posted on Himalayas and Douyin, she resolutely decided to take her son to Wosan for rehabilitation. Because Xiaoming's mother is a university teacher and cannot accompany the child to intervene for a long time, she can only use the winter and summer vacations to bring the child to Wosan, and this year, it is the third holiday of his intervention.
Our initial judgment of Xiaoming is stunted, because his symptoms of developmental delay are more obvious, the symptoms of autism are not very obvious, there are eye-to-eye eyes, but the sight is not very good; there is empathy and understanding of emotions, but the emotional link with the mother is not established well, whether the mother is happy or not, he always smirks, not like a normal child can give the right response; also, he never asks questions, does not ask why, when strangers ask him questions, he basically will not answer.
Today I will share Bob's key signs in the progress of language understanding.
After the Spring Festival, he came to train, and I knew that he went to the Garden Expo Garden during the holidays, so I asked him: "Where did you go during the Spring Festival?" He said, "I've been to the Garden Expo," and I said, "I haven't been there," and he said, "You haven't been there?" I said, "Yeah, what's the best thing in there?" He said: "Those amusement parks in the amusement park are the most fun," so that the communication is very good, there are small gardens named after each place in the Garden Expo, and I asked him: "Which garden is your favorite?" He said, "Guilin Garden is the best," so I pulled out my phone, showed him the pictures I took, and then I smiled and said, "Oh, I'm all stuffed." Xiaoming suddenly began to ask, "What is lu filling?" Mom said he had never asked why before, for the first time. After I explained it to him, he was also very happy.
When Xiaoming came the next day, after greeting me, he suddenly asked me, "Teacher David, what is 'sparing me'?" I was stunned, my mother said that when I watched Journey to the West last night, Sun Wukong said this sentence: "Master, I know that I am wrong, you spared me!" He didn't understand what it meant, so he came to ask me in the morning. I started tickling him, and he struggled desperately, and finally we both fell to the ground, and I said, "At this time, you have to say spare me, don't scratch me itch," and then he began to shout, "Spare me, don't scratch me itch." Then he began to shout, "Spare me, don't scratch me." Then he said, "I know what it means." "Both of us and my mom were very happy.
This is what I often say: deep language and semantic understanding are very important, and children can get the meaning of words in the first place through direct communication with their parents. But Bob, who is highly functional, autistic, doesn't ask him what he doesn't understand, which leaves a lot of obstacles for him to learn new knowledge, new languages, understand literal meanings, and deep language understanding. So why didn't he ask? Because he can't hear, doesn't want to know, and doesn't care about everything around him.
Now Xiaoming especially likes to listen to stories, at night let the mother tell the story over and over again, there is no understanding will ask, this is very important for high-functioning autism, which means that he has opened the door to explore the deep meaning of human language, for him to communicate and communicate with people in the future to establish a pipeline and pathway, in life can understand each other's language, there will be a normal response, when he will use these languages to communicate with each other, the other party will also feel that he is a normal child.
Therefore, these two questions are a symbolic and progressive behavior for Xiaoming.
If your child does not ask questions, responds to questions that are not asked, is particularly afraid of asking questions of him, and is dazed when communicating and communicating, this indicates that his understanding of the language of words is more or less impaired, and it will also restrict social interaction with people. Because social interaction is not only to communicate with physical behavior, but more importantly, to communicate and communicate with people in the highest human language. This is why children with autism develop social impairments, because they are not interested in people, have no emotions, and have difficulties in understanding language, so they can only socialize if the first two points are recovered.