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Join the discussion with Steven Sussman, Ph.D, child & adolescent psychologist, about need to redefine certain groups within the autistic spectrum as having social learning disability rather than auti

I would think something opposite! So called "social learning disability" appears to be "truer" autism (psychological), maybe at least sometimes on schizospectrum. Something commonly called "autism" should have new name in my opinion which would be not associate with "autism" and its cognates.

I would rather say "Kannerotypy is not autism" (or at least not only or the most representative sort of autism).

Symptoms of "kannerotypy" ("kannerotypy described below and "social-emotional learning disability" gives "classical" autism spectrum disorder):

- speech delay (or even lack of it),
- language impairments,
- problems with communicative use of language
- lack of central coherence,
- difficulties with looking to objects or ideas as a whole, seeing everything "in parts"
- no "internal voice" in head (lack of verbal and (or) conceptual thinking),
- clear dominance of visual thinking,
- literal, concrete, rigid thinking,
- lack of abstract thinking, difficulties with understanding abstract concepts,
- having "narrow" mind,
- over-attention to detail, missing the "big picture"
- echolalia,
- pronoun reversal, lack of using the pronoun "I"
- difficulty with differentiating self and others,
- serious or even profound problems with sensory integration,
- being overwhelmed by sensory stimuli easily,
- "meltdowns", attacks of anger or fear
- "splinter skills", "islets" of abilities
- necessity of sameness,
- compulsive adherence to nonfunctional routines and rituals,
- stereotypical movements like hand flapping, body rocking, head-banging, tiptoe walking,
- preoccupation with the parts of objects;
- gluten and casein intolerance

"Social-emotional learning disability" (something like "socio-emotional dyscalulia" or even "socio-emotional acalculia") - deficit of theory of mind is a sort of cognitive deficit. Theory of mind deficit is not autism for me or at least is not a necessary sign of autism.

SELD ("social-emotional learning disability") is a cognitive deficit or group of cognitive deficit associated with lack of theory of mind or serious deficits in it. "Land of emotions" is an "unknown land" for people with SELD. It occurs for example in "classic" forms of Asperger's syndrome.

Symptoms of SELD may include:
- lack of empathy (especially cognitive one) and (or) compassion,
- lack of understanding of lying and intentions,
- inability to mentalise emotional states of others,
- lack of understanding why something is offensive for other person,
- "painful" honesty,
- being very naive and gullible,
- lack of pragmatic skills,
- literal interpretations,
- policing behaviors (applying the same rules to everybody regardless of the circumstances),
- thinking that other people thinking just as I (and have, for example, the same interests as I),
- lack of interest in rivalisation and (or) understanding of it (why someone is happy when is a winner?),
- poor understanding of social situations,
- poor understanding of motives of other people,
- alexithymia,
- lack of common sense in social situations (for example taking toys of other child because a child with SELD thought that other child will like "me" because of it) - idiosyncratic and "illogical" behaviors in social interactions,
- "intense" imitative behaviors (associated with cognitive deficits in socio-emotional area?),
- lack of knowledge about emotion which should be felt in particular situation (such as after death of an uncle),
- difficulty with describing emotional states of other (for example characters in the novel) and creating stories containing descriptions of emotional states,
- problems with imaginative play and understanding of it,
- problems with recognising people and faces and memorising facts about people).

Ostatnio edytowany przez noclaut2 (2015-10-19 22:18:39)

I think that the term "autism" could be deleted at all from classification of mental disorders. For me this term may look inappriopiate because of the risk of marginalising of conditions which are similar to conditions named as "autism" or "autistic", like "social NVLD", "social learning disability", "social communication disorder".