Children with autism would exhibit strengths in the areas of Visual-Spatial, Musical-Rhythmic and perhaps Bodily-Kinesthetic modalities. This view was based on years of work with children with autism.
Each of these learning strengths will be reviewed and their relationship to autism will be discussed below.
A person with Visual-Spatial strength, as a means of learning and making sense of the world:
• readily understands, retains and remembers information he can see
• is able to create visual experiences
• shows sensitivity to color, line, shape, form, space, and relationships among them, often noticing minute details
• prefers orderly, tidy environments.
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Lets find out the relation between learning preferences with Introversion-Sensing-Thinking-Judging (ISTJ) type and
the key characteristics of autism. Examination of each preference is presented below and examples within the realm of autism will be highlighted.
A person with an Introversion preference, as an energy source:
• is slow to warm up to new settings, people, information, and activities
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Although autism is no longer consider as fatal disorder, but the most important to handle person with Autism, is with skillful or trained learner.
In order to teach person with Autism, teaching with patience is the key, unlike teaching normal persons, some preferences are needed to sharpen their brains in social term, those will be mention as below:
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