4 Ways a Child with Autism Processes Information Differently
By nazera - July 21, 2020
From the writer experience, it says that autistic people have a trouble with communicating in their daily life mostly because it is hard for them to receive what the others are trying to say. Just like us when we travel to a foreign country that does not use language we use, we may have difficulties in understanding their native language.
Children who has autism may experience the world strangely compare to others because they process information differently from an early age. Understanding how their mind work can help parents to have better communication with their child but also helps to draw great empathy.
1. Understanding the details first
Such as we normally see knife, fork and spoon and we can instantly conclude that those are silverware. But for autistic person, when a person teach them of a characteristic, they tend to only see it like that. For example, a person come out to them and say, “that it is a dog”. This something is white with spots, and short hair. Now, they only process that information and when they see a different kind of dogs such a brown colour dog, they would not know that it is a dog unless someone tells them. From that, they add those information or details in their mind every time it happens and in the end the can conclude and understand the boarder category of something. These kind of thinkers can succeed in research and data analysis, fine arts, data entry, coding, developmental biology, assembly, software testing, design, and other careers requiring detail, logic and/or repetition.
2. They take things literally
They have problem to process certain conversation and respond to it logically because they understand language in its most literal sense. A person might say stuff like “Everyone is going to Grandma’s for Christmas,” and they would reply with “Not everyone! Lot’s of people won’t go to Grandma’s. No one in my class is going.” They can take conversation really seriously most of the time so it is advisable to not get mad or sensitive quickly because of that. In a long run, they can be better with communicating with others.
3. It is hard for them to remember sequences
You might explained to them in details about what they need to do but something they end up not remembering the sequences. It is better and really helpful to write out the steps, picture charts or even use colour code they would not have the difficulty to remember the steps or do other things that they need to do next.
4. It is hard for them to imagine something from others perspective
An autistic person can have interest in things and lasted for long time. They get really invested with the stuff they like and only learn about those things without getting bored or tired of it. They might talk about the things that they find interesting to a someone and talk for a long time and thinking that they would love it too, but the person might get tired of listening and politely ask to go elsewhere. The problem is an autistic person won’t know what did they do wrong and gets frustrated which is hard because they can’t understand what others are thinking, feeling or believing different things than they do. Their brain just does not naturally process things the same way others does.
4 Ways a Child with Autism Processes Information Differently. (n.d.). Retrieved July 20, 2020, from https://www.appliedbehavioranalysisedu.org/4-ways-a-child-with-autism-processes-information-differently/
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