Gift Letsoalo

A Soldier in Christ vehemently discovering the depths of the beauty of the human mind and behaviour...Loving life, family, friends and this moment.

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[The Star Academy @StarAcademyABA]

Board Certified Autism Technician and The Star Academy's instructor, Gift, shares his story of hope and the amazing life changing progress one of the many children on the autism spectrum at The Star Academy has made because of evidence-based ABA treatment.
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@StarAcademyABA Very effective treatment

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It's by forcing ourselves to translate our own language that we recognise how silly we might be.

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Mentalisation therapy to build empathy.

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REBT to counteract distorted thinking

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CBT: Think it better.
Social skills are more complicated than we think.

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Emotional awareness to counteract alexithymia

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They think better visio spatially than verbally, making the PECS file reliable for language development.

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Environmental arrangement. If it feels predictable than it feels safe.

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ABA over DTT. It's not just about systems but learning to generalise.

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The extreme male brain theory of autism. Simon baron-cohen

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People with autism have troubles with selective attention. Which stimuli is more important is unknown.

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A distinctive lack of cerebral lateralisation.

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We can use the false belief task to test theory of mind-a fundamental deficit.

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Empathy does exist. It's just that they might not understand why things and behaviours are occurring.

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Longitude studies show that kids during 1-3 years have more synaptic engagements.

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Misfiring and partial activation of mirror neurons.

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Intelligence theory of autism. (Frith 2012)

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Andrew Wakefields 1998 study still has detrimental effects.