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re:Hello Koala mum,...
Hello Koala mum,
Sorry that I use English because it is much easier to type.
I have read all your posts and I am one of your fans.
Have you train Koala's eye contacting? Do you see eye contacting as a goal? Why ABA set it as one of the first programs?
Here is an interesting article written by a person with high
functioning autism. It talks about the issue of eye contact.
Temple Grandin also stated that she could either look at you or listen
to you but not both.
http://home.att.net/~ascaris1/more-aba.html
"Part of the problem is that ABA techniques, like most methods for
teaching autistic kids, do not start from the idea that the child
should be helped to be the best autistic child he can be. They want
to fix us, right down to their obsession with eye contact, and they
never stop to get our opinion. I know many aspies and auties that
were taught to make eye contact, but I have not found even one yet
that makes REAL eye contact, in the sense that NTs do. I learned to
look toward the face and let my eyes unfocus. It looks to most NTs
like eye contact, but it is not. It's an adaptive technique designed
primarily to make the people that insist on eye contact shut up. If I
wish make real eye contact, I have to force myself to do it, and that
effort prevents me from thinking of what they are saying or what I am
saying. I cannot talk or listen and make eye contact. Not only that,
but if I make true eye contact, it unnerves the other person, as I
have no idea about how to modulate it properly. It comes off as a
stare, which bothers them more than not making eye contact. You just
cannot please them!" |
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