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Ido Kedar - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 1st Jun, 2013 - 7:35pm
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Non-Verbal Severely Austistic Teen Writes Book
Ido Kedar
Sometimes when people see a non-verbal, severely autistic person they assume they have a mental disability and they are unable to understand what is going on around them. Ido Kedar is severely autistic and he is able to communicate through an IPAD. He goes through a mainstream high school, he is on the honor roll and recently wrote a book about what is like to be autistic. Source 6 Some of the things he said:
QUOTE "Life without communication is like you have no voice,". "I want people to understand that not speaking is not the same thing as not thinking."
"Time after time people assume that I don't understand simple words when they see me move wrong. Understanding is not the problem. It's that my body finds its own route when my mind can't find it."
"I talk in my mind, but my mind doesn't talk to my mouth. It's frustrating, even though I can communicate by pointing now. Before I could, it was like a solitary confinement. It was terrible having experts talk to each other about me, and to hear them be wrong in their observations and interpretations, but to not be capable of telling them." Source 3
"Time after time people assume that I don't understand simple words when they see me move wrong. Understanding is not the problem. It's that my body finds its own route when my mind can't find it."
"I talk in my mind, but my mind doesn't talk to my mouth. It's frustrating, even though I can communicate by pointing now. Before I could, it was like a solitary confinement. It was terrible having experts talk to each other about me, and to hear them be wrong in their observations and interpretations, but to not be capable of telling them." Source 3
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