Learning difficulties with autism

[elte]

Could be partly why some people fail at on the job training.

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"Individuals with autism need to be taught in ways that support or promote generalization rather than in ways that reinforce over specificity..."'


http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-10-re...utism.html

[C C]

For example, in the context of learning what a dog is, using a full range of examples of dogs - and even of animals, more generally - incorporates variability from the beginning and promotes learning a broad concept rather than a specific example.

Children of Plato? "Receptive or amenable to the universal principle of a thing. Preferring the form(ula) or scheme of necessary characteristics that make possible the multiple specific instances of a thing and the identification / discrimination of its sensible instances."

[elte]

A common notion about autism is having a laser-like attention to detail. My impression has been that it is more of an attraction to searching for general similarities in things so as allow more understanding and even predictability of the surroundings.

[Magical Realist]

I've noticed with my autistic nephew that he has a very low tolerance threshold for contradiction. There is no appreciation for the subtleties of language, or the variations in the meanings of words. This means this, and that's it! That may be an indication of a weak grasp for the uniqueness of specific cases and their variant degrees of departure from the general set containing them. A dolphin is a mammal for example, but it has fins and no fur. ETC...