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Autism Is the Future The Evolution of a Different Type of Intelligence

✍ Scribed by Marlo Payne Thurman


Publisher
Future Horizons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
653 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1935567179

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✦ Synopsis


**In Autism Is the Future , Marlo Payne Thurman reveals how cognitive differences are the constructing pieces in understanding those with autism. Through her findings, she shows how those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) constantly challenge assumptions about intelligence and measuring intelligence. **

Thurman proposes that sensory and cognitive development have evolved together into a very different form of intelligence in those with ASD, and it should be viewed not as a disability but instead as a difference to be celebrated and followed.

Thurman began working with children diagnosed with ASD in 1986. With group home management and intensive ABA therapy in her early career, she developed a special interest in meeting the unique needs of those individuals who were asynchronously developed into the realms of the "ASD savant." Most recently, she completed a landmark study proposing an alternative sensory-cognitive difference theory based on her extensive...


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