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Recent content by Chrysanthemum

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    Article about college majors and jobs for people with ASD

    Well in terms of what's mentioned being very restrictive, it's my thinking that these are only examples and not an exhaustive list. I agree about the teaching. The thing is though that ASD could be thought of as a "social" disability (though the DSM V diagnostic criteria says "currently or by...
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    Article about college majors and jobs for people with ASD

    What do you mean by that?
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    ASD and exam accommodations

    Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering if you were allowed to type for short-answer exams as well, or whether your only option was to handwrite for those even though you were allowed to type essay exams? Did you have to submit tests of handwriting or not to be allowed to type essay exams? May I...
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    Article about college majors and jobs for people with ASD

    https://www.iidc.indiana.edu/irca/articles/choosing-the-right-job-for-people-with-autism-or-aspergers-syndrome.html states “It is important that high functioning autistics and Asperger's syndrome people pick a college major in an area where they can get jobs. Computer science is a good choice...
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    ASD and exam accommodations

    That's great that your child has been granted that accommodation. To be clear I was not referring to anyone self-diagnosed but only people with an official diagnosis. Here are the JCQ and IB exam accommodation guidelines (including standard scores rendering eligibility for certain...
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    ASD and exam accommodations

    I don’t believe that anyone asking for exam accommodations would get the accommodations they are asking for. For example, there are official written guidelines for accommodations for GCSE, A-level and IB exams (including explicit “standard scores” criteria for students asking for e.g. extra...
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    ASD and exam accommodations

    So something I have wondered is for people diagnosed with ASD who have standard scores in the normal range or above in areas such as reading speed, reading comprehension, writing speed and legibility, processing speed, numerical calculations etc, do they usually not get any exam accommodations...
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    Autism spectrum disorder and speech delay with use of compensation v.s. without

    Thank you for your explanation.
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    Autism spectrum disorder and speech delay with use of compensation v.s. without

    Thank you, I wasn't sure whether you were referring to mental age as in socially or as in intellectually? "By mental age, I mean neuro-typical mental age. That is the standard used to diagnose all levels of ASD." Thank you for explaining. If you put it that way I might assume you mean socially...
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    Autism spectrum disorder and speech delay with use of compensation v.s. without

    Thank you for sharing. I see your point that different children with ASD may require different amounts of support throughout their lives. But then the severity levels are somewhat confusing to me especially level 1 v.s. level 2 or level 2 v.s. level 3 and also because there are now 2 criterions...
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    Autism spectrum disorder and speech delay with use of compensation v.s. without

    Thank you. I thought "high-functioning autism" and "low-functioning autism" was based on whether one had an IQ above or below 70 and think that being able to dialogue with one's therapist through whatever means does not necessarily directly correlate to one's IQ level?
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    Autism spectrum disorder and speech delay with use of compensation v.s. without

    By "functioning level" do you mean in social interaction, daily living or intellectual functioning?
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    Autism spectrum disorder and speech delay with use of compensation v.s. without

    I'm just wondering in what ways do your children's autism spectrum disorder manifest and are they verbal at all and if so to what extent? If not how good is their non-verbal communication? If you don't feel comfortable answering this, that's fine.
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    Autism spectrum disorder and speech delay with use of compensation v.s. without

    Thank you for your replies and your points and I really appreciate you sharing them. I don’t think “high-functioning autism” was mentioned in the DSM-IV” either but was just wondering about how it seems in the DSM-IV in the absence of other verbal communication impairments seems like you have to...
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    Autism spectrum disorder and speech delay with use of compensation v.s. without

    So I have read that the difference between "high-functioning autism" (I know it's not an official diagnostic label) and Asperger's is that high-functioning autism includes speech delay whereas Asperger's doesn't. However, while thinking about this, I thought of something: according to the...
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