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6 Educating and Inspiring TED Talks on Autism

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April is Autism Awareness Month, or better yet, Acceptance Month. Autism is a life-long social communication disorder and has become a hot topic in our society. I rounded up some TED Talks on autism – ranging from research to experiences. Learn the history of diagnosing autism, what it is like to live with autism or have a family member with autism. Feel free to share this post to help with awareness and acceptance!

1. The Forgotten History of Autism

Steve Silberman discusses the interesting history of diagnosing autism and the “perfect storm of autism awareness”. 

 

2. To Understand Autism, Don’t Look Away

Carina Morillo, a mother of a teen with autism, talks about how she learned to connect with her nonverbal son and how we don’t need to be heroic to include and connect to those with autism.

 

3. Autism – what we know (and what we don’t know yet)

Geneticist Wendy Chung shares the research behind what we know about autism spectrum disorder.

 

4. What I’ve Learned From My Autistic Brothers

Faith Jegede shares her experience growing up with 2 autistic brothers and asks us to change our perception of “normal.”

 

5. The Will of Opportunity — The Path of Autism to College

Kerry Magro was a non-verbal child and now has a Master in Strategic Communication and Leadership. 

6. Autism: Vaccines, Brain Science, and Adolescence

Suzy Scherf is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist. She discusses myths about autism and the science behind adolescence being a vulnerable period of development for individuals with autism.

I hope you enjoyed watching these videos and learned something! I attribute TED as the owner of these 6 TED talk videos. Visit them at TED.com

 

 

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“Children gesture before they begin to speak and “Children gesture before they begin to speak and continue gesturing throughout the language learning process...children’s early gestures not only precede, but also predict, the onset of a number of linguistic milestones–nouns, nominal constituents, simple and complex sentences. Gesturing may thus play a causal role in language learning, and could do so in two ways: (1) Gesturing gives children the opportunity to practice expressing ideas in a preverbal form. (2) A child’s gestures offer parents and other communication partners insight into the child’s linguistic level, thus giving the partners the opportunity to provide input tailored to that level.”

Goldin-Meadow, S. How gesture helps children learn language. (2014)

Some caregivers worry that we are giving up on verbal language when we begin using gestures or other non-verbal forms of communication.But gestures can be an amazing stepping stone to words. They seem to help the concept of communication click for a child...If I do this, then I get what I want/need! Have you found this to be the true?
SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY • I updated this graphic SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY • I updated this graphic with the newest research!

Note: These numbers are based on unfamiliar listeners in an unknown context. You will notice the dark blue is the milestone (when 95% of children at this intelligible) and the light blue is the average (when 50% of children are this intelligible.)

The snapshot on the left is a summary given by the researchers (Hustad, et al.) as a quick way to remember and recite this new information.

Find these updated intelligibility levels in the Free SLP Handouts!

The paid handouts were updated a while back with this new information and have a more detailed summary, including word-level intelligibility. If you own them, be sure to redownload!

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Some favorite books for social emotional learning >> inferencing >> verbs >> negation

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📣📣📣 Phoneme awareness is the ability to b 📣📣📣 Phoneme awareness is the ability to break down a word into the smallest unit or sound. This includes phoneme isolation, blending, segmenting, addition, deletion, and substitution.

It’s ESSENTIAL to work on these skills starting in Preschool and continuing to focus on them in Kindergarten and First Grade!

The Speech-Language Development Handouts break down what to target at each grade level + the phonological awareness steps with definitions and examples!

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What can we expect from toddler attention span? ⏰ It’s easy to over-expect the amount of time a child can sit and attend to a structured activity. Do these numbers surprise you or are they what you’d expect?

Memory trick 💡 You can remember the number of minutes a child can attend is approximately twice the child’s age.

Note: Don’t forget to use developmental age.

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Gaertner et al. (2008) Focused Attention in Toddlers
*most* of the areas of speech-language pathology 😉 What is your favorite area to treat?

I had to repost this during Better Hearing and Speech Month! 

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