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nicolecarroll Says: Saturday, January 23, 2010 @2:49:50 PM Another excellent video ..I will need to listen to it again ...so much information ... my mind is swirling with qiuestions ...Now how best to apply this new information . Nicole

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Posted: 1/18/2010
In: Meeting Daily Challenges

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'Autism' is one word but underlying autistic development and behaviour can be a 'fruit salad' of conditions. One of those is commonly Agnosias.

Gnosia means 'to know'. Agnosias are where the brain struggles to put meaning to incoming sensory information. Common agnosias in those with autism include Social Emotional Agnosia (difficulty reading facial expression/body language), Atonia (difficulty processing tone of voice), Prosopagnosia (face blindness), Visual Agnosia (meaning blindness, context blindness), Auditory Agnosia (difficulty distinguishing speech from other environmental sounds), Auditory Verbal Agnosia (meaning deafness), Visual Verbal Agnosia (difficulty reading with meaning), Body Agnosias (difficulty processing body messages and processing the body as a whole), Anosagnosia (difficulty perceiving one's own condition) and Alexithymia (difficulty processing one's emotions) may also be present.

Understanding agnosias may:

* Demonstrate the wide diversity of autistic realities and challenge old and new stereotypes of autism.

* Provide low cost and cost-free, easy to employ strategies for learning, bonding and behavior management.

* Help us better design learning environments for each individual.

* Form stronger social and emotional bonds based on which sensory perceptual channels are their greatest strengths.

* Help people reach their fullest potential.

* Help improve advocacy.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER:

Donna Williams is an Australian adult diagnosed with autism who acquired functional speech in late childhood and went on to become an the published author of 9 books including two international bestsellers all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She went on to became a qualified teacher, public speaker and autism consultant, artist, screenwriter and singer-songwriter with Donna and The Aspinauts. More information about her and her life's work can be found on her website at http://www.donnawilliams.net .

I hope you enjoy the presentation.

Warmly,

Donna Williams, Dip Ed, BA Hons.
Author, artist, autism consultant and public speaker.

http://www.myspace.com/nobodynowherethefilm
http://www.donnawilliams.net
http://www.aspinauts.com