Help for Pervasive Development Disorders
Pervasive development disorders (PDD), Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS) is a ’sub threshold’ condition in which some - but not all - features of autism are identified. The term Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified is defined as a marked impairment of social interaction, communication, and/or stereotyped behavior patterns or interests, but when full features for autism are not met.
Many of these children diagnosed with PDD-NOS may have symptoms in language processing and communication because their highly visual thinking is interfering with the development of verbal skills. A child that is highly visual thinker and has highly visual brains in the family tree can show as many as 50 specific symptoms in communication, attention and
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The first step in helping a Maverick become symptom-free is to train their visual attention. Teaching attention can be a very significant step in improving the entire communication system. One of the components of visual attention is the visual zoom lens.
The visual zoom lens allows the brain to concentrate, focus, and change focus. It helps the brain make sense of what would otherwise be an incoherent jumble of visual input. Consider this, when you look at a picture of a child walking with a dog beneath a beneath a sunny sky, you use the zoom lens to distinguish the child from the dog and the sky. Without
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Visual thinkers have difficulty fitting into the verbal world. They negotiate the world with patterns rather than verbal reasoning. This difference can lead to walls of silence and create isolation from others. The words that we use to make sense of the world can create confusion and frustration for Mavericks. Mavericks use sameness of routines as the template to make sense of the chaos of everyday life. We often ask Mavericks to adjust to changes in schedule or adjustments in plans based on how we explain by talking. Our words may
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It is possible to train the visual zoom lens. In teaching your child to pay attention you can reduce or eliminate off-target behavior problems. Pictures and patterns are used in zoom lens exercises. You teach your child to identify visual details through fun exercises such as having them identify hidden images or identifying contrasting images. The exercises are a fun, stress free time for your child. During these training sessions, you will also
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The zoom lens is the first step in fluently opening the visual thinking or the verbal thinking pathway. For Mavericks, the visual zoom lens can be so strong that it shuts down the ability to use verbal processing easily.
To learn to speak, read, write or listen effectively, you need to have ready access to your auditory zoom lens. We teach the visual to help repair the verbal in a very fun series of games. To see parents and children having fun learning how to
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Dr. Cheri Florance is a brain scientist with training and clinical experience in how to teach the brain to replace symptoms of communication and language disorders. In her books, Maverick Mind, ( http://www.penquinputnam.com) and A Boy Beyond Reach ( http://www.simonschuster.com), she describes how she taught her own autistic son, Whitney to replace disability with ability and become
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