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Autism: Changing Your Brain For Social Skills

Autism: Changing Your Brain For Social Skills
Autism Related Issues

Name: Laer

Comments: People with half a brain or other brain abnormalities can still function normal because their brain adapts and learns to adjust. I want to know if the same is true with autism that the brain can change for better social skills like average people.

Skills Social Brain Changing Autism

New study reveals visual working memory may provide clues to autism's social struggles

Poor visual working memory can play an important role in the struggles experienced by autistic children, according to a new study. The aim of this study was to compare the working memory profiles of autistic children with typically developing children. The results suggest that children with autism have much worse visual working memory compared to typically developing students. Ref. Source 5o.

Autism: Changing Your Brain For Social Skills Health & Special Psychology

'Social brain' networks are altered at a young age in autism. As infants develop, they respond to social cues such as voices, faces and gestures. Their brain develops a network of regions that specialise in translating these cues, the 'social brain'. A common observation in infants later diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders is reduced sensitivity towards these social cues. A team of researchers from the University of Geneva brings evidence of how this phenomenon hinders the normal development of the social brain at early developmental stages. Source 9z.

Skills Social Brain Changing Autism

Students' social skills flourish best in groups with similar skill levels. Researchers have found that children who need assistance improving their social skills might benefit more when grouped with peers who have similar social skill levels, rather than with peers who have a similar disability or disorder. Source 2e.

Skills Social Brain Changing Autism

A tilt of the head facilitates social engagement. Every time we look at a face, we take in a flood of information effortlessly: age, gender, race, expression, the direction of our subject's gaze, perhaps even their mood. How the brain does this is a mystery. Source 8i.