A snow flurry falls, with a icy refrain
Pebbles of spray, scatter with a sound
On the ground, they patter all around.
To college I must still go
LASR lab awaits me, with experiments to unfold
EEG and sMRI, knowledge to behold
[Concepts in Sensorimotor Research]
Application to Autism.
The advantage of a good filtering system is less getting overwhelmed by your sensory environment in the real world, but the disadvantage was that you could lose out on critical information. This almost automatic value-based filtering ability is, I think, an issue many autistics like me struggle with. But even with extensive experience, value-based filters could vary around task domain, context-specific or even things like predictability. Which is still, i think, why we still face challenges in trying to understand what exactly is going on in the non-neurotypical populations.
Summary of the paper we discussed in my Multisensory Integration seminar this week.
Autism is a proven profit-making industry. Everything in autism space costs money; not just average money but real $$$$$$. It's profit with almost no accountability. If an autistic does not progress, it because they were not going to show progress anyway, you are too old, it's too late, so don't deserve solutions for your challenges or opportunities for your strengths.
Autism is also a career-making industry, with books published, speeches of fancy words at conferences. We are surrounded by money-making "autism-expert-celebrities" though no one still has a clue.
Lexicon [Measures] - CARS
The Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) a behavior observation scale intended to help diagnose autism and plan interventions/therapy. CARS is administered by a clinician through direct observation and interactions and involves structured and semi-structured activities to elicit specific behaviors. The tool is designed for children aged 2 years and older.
We pay so much money for all the therapy in the autism space. Here is something that is completely and absolutely FREE. The best part is, no one can gatekeep and deny its access for you or decide you are "not a good-fit."
It's AWE. Awe is beneficial to the mind and the body. And you don't have to travel far on an expensive vacation to experience awe. It's all around you - that blade of grass, that tall building you walk beneath, images from the James Webb telescope, our BFF God (forever, gonna outlast us all), or even that tiny ant on the ground.
Let's make use of and benefit from this
FREE, ACCESSIBLE & BENEFICIAL RESOURCE of AWE
by engaging in small moments of AWE everyday.