NVLD Non-Verbal Learning Disabilities

[Geordie]

Shedding new light on learning disorders | MSUToday | Michigan State University

?Children with nonverbal learning disabilities and Asperger?s can look very similar, but they can have very different reasons for why they behave the way they do,? said Jodene Fine, assistant professor of school psychology in MSU?s College of Education.

What are your thoughts on the latest research on NVLDs?

 

[Arashi222]

I actually have NVLD and AS. I was also told that girls tend to be DX'd more for NVLD instead of AS vs. thier male counterparts. I had a thread a while ago similar to this I think...I don't know where it went though.

 

[wyverary]

That is way cool. I also have NVLD and AS together (per diagnosis, anyway). I wonder what their criteria were for separating NVLD vs. AS diagnoses? In the thread Miss Arashi mentioned there was a lot of talk as to whether it depended more on who was doing the evaluation and how useful the objective criteria were. I can't remember...did NVLD make it to the DSM-5? I don't remember seeing it on a cursory skim.

 

[Arashi222]

That is way cool. I also have NVLD and AS together (per diagnosis, anyway). I wonder what their criteria were for separating NVLD vs. AS diagnoses? In the thread Miss Arashi mentioned there was a lot of talk as to whether it depended more on who was doing the evaluation and how useful the objective criteria were. I can't remember...did NVLD make it to the DSM-5? I don't remember seeing it on a cursory skim.

Not as far as I know. What I heard was that NVLD is still like splitting hairs on diagnosising and that is why it didn't make into the DSM because a lot of kids with NVLD would also fall into the category of an ASD. Its an interesting article that Geordie posted though. But I also wonder then what makes you have both then...if those of us here can have NVLD and AS.

 

[Ylva]

Trouble understanding reading (I can read anything, but have no comprehension)
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Concrete thinking; taking things very literally (this drove my mother crazy)

How can you read without comprehension? Low comprehension, I get that when I'm surrounded by people who pose various degrees of threat depending on closeness and respect for personal space, but how can there be none?

As for literalism, it really sounds like the easiest way to communicate. It's entirely straight-forward… how can it be misunderstood?

 

[Ylva]

Metaphors are easy if I have my metaphor filter on. All my brain filters are manual, though, so it's not like I always have the energy. For this reason, I find literalism to be a reprieve and a wonderful use of words. Metaphors are mostly for abstract stuff, though, aren't they?

I have short-term memory troubles, too. I read somewhere in the past week that autistics often do. For me it's like (analogy alert) the cache is cleared almost instantly, unless I am singularly focused on the thing that just entered the cache, and the content later resurfaces in my mid- or long-term memory. Like my brain needs to restart some program in order to update.

Literalism compels me to wonder whether "non-verbal learning disability" really means trouble learning non-verbal things or trouble learning the non-verbal way. Also, I do wonder what the "different reasons" are that autists and NVPDers have.