{"id":1731,"date":"2010-09-23T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T19:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2010-09-23T15:41:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T19:41:22","slug":"read-it-and-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/read-it-and-leap\/","title":{"rendered":"Read it and leap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, indeed, children with ASD do grow cognitively over time; you just have to know how to recognize it. The link below says it all. And\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always said, it&#8217;s not the people with ASD who have the problem knowing things about life; it&#8217;s the tests, the researchers, that are skewed towards neuro-typical ways of measuring knowledge.\u00a0 Even and especially the most &#8220;severe,&#8221; i.e., the most autistically-involved individuals have what I think of as a communication clogging, a language-flow problem.\u00a0 It is not a blown-out brain, it is not about stupidity.\u00a0 Those words merely reflect the assessors inability to see what is there, but hidden to us.\u00a0 (And please note that I am not using the tired old metaphors of autistics being mysteries, enigmas, or puzzles.\u00a0 I am saying that our inability is just that, and we need to figure out a way for our autistic loved one to &#8220;speak.&#8221;\u00a0 Yes, it may not happen in this particular lifetime.\u00a0 I hope it will.\u00a0 Remember, it ain&#8217;t over til it&#8217;s over.<\/p>\n<p>Mark my words, that the more varied communication tools become available for those with ASD, the more we will see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autism-society.org\/site\/News2?page=NewsArticle&amp;id=16499\">research like this<\/a>, that show that it is we who have not understood, <em>not<\/em> those with ASD&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, indeed, children with ASD do grow cognitively over time; you just have to know how to recognize it. The link below says it all. And\u00a0 I&#8217;ve always said, it&#8217;s not the people with ASD who have the problem knowing things about life; it&#8217;s the tests, the researchers, that are skewed towards neuro-typical ways of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-rV","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1733,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}