An Educational Blog For Ya'll

Came across this on Facebook, and thought I'd share it here.

Credit to all images goes to myautisticsoul, unless stated otherwise. Also I will be adding additional info where I feel it is needed.

ADHD: Stands for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and is achronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness. Also, ADD(attention deficit disorder) is considered an outdated term and no longer used. Instead ADHD is broken down into three types:

•Type 1 ADHD(has difficulty focusing, but not hyperactive)

•Type 2 ADHD(has no difficulty focusing, but is hyperactive)

•Type 3 ADHD aka ADHD Combined Type(has difficulty focusing and is hyperactive)

Dyslexia: A general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence.

Types of dyslexia:

•Primary Dyslexia: Refers to dyslexia when it is the result of a genetically inherited condition.

•Secondary Dyslexia: Refers to reading difficulties that were caused by problems with brain development during the early stages of fetal development. Note that both primary and secondary dyslexia are considered developmental.

•Developmental Dyslexia: May be used to distinguish the problem in children and youth from similar problems experienced by persons after severe head injuries.

•Acquired or Trauma Dyslexia: When an adult or child has a brain injury from trauma or disease, they can sometimes develop difficulties with language processing, which may result in dyslexia.

•Phonological Dyslexia: This type of dyslexia includes trouble breaking words down into syllables and into smaller sound units called phonemes.

•Surface Dyslexia: This type of dyslexia refers to kids who struggle with reading because they can’t recognize words by sight.

•Deep Dyslexia: Is used to describe a severe impairment and is accompanied by semantic errors (e.g., street is read as road), but also visual errors (e.g., badge is read as bandage), derivational errors (e.g., edition is read as editor), and difficulty reading functional words (e.g., as, the, so). Deep dyslexia is often described as an acquired reading disorder due to a brain injury.

•Letter Position Dyslexia: Individuals who have a deficit in this function can still identify the letters correctly, but fail to encode the order of the letters within the word. This dyslexia is called letter position dyslexia (LPD), and its cardinal symptom is migrations of letters within words. Thus, words like cloud can be read as could, fried as fired, and dairy as diary. Another related type of error that individuals with LPD make is the omission of doubled letters: for example, they may read drivers as divers, and baby as bay.

•Attentional Dyslexia: In attentional dyslexia, letters migrate between neighboring words, but are correctly identified and keep their original relative position within the word. For example, the word pair cane love can be read as lane love or even lane cove.

•Letter Identity Dyslexia: Is a deficit in the orthographic-visual analysis, in the function responsible for creating abstract letter identities. It is not a visual deficit, as readers with this dyslexia can still match similar non-orthographic forms, visually match two instances of the same letter in different sizes, and copy letters correctly. However, readers with letter identity dyslexia cannot access the abstract identity of letters from their visual form, so they cannot name a letter, identify a written letter according to its name or sound, or match letters in different cases (e.g., A and a).

•Neglect Dyslexia: A condition in which a person is unaware of half of the visual field as a result of neurological damage. Either the initial parts of words are misread (left neglect) or the terminal parts of words are misread (right neglect), and the errors are not simple deletions but typically guesses of real though incorrect words with approximately the right number of letters.

•Vowel Letter Dyslexia: Individuals with vowel dyslexia omit, substitute, transpose, and add vowel letters. Thus, the word bit can be read as bat, but or even boat.

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Dyspraxia: Also known as developmental coordination disorder, is childhood developmental disorder marked by clumsiness in otherwise healthy kids.

Symptoms of dyspraxia:

‌Echolalia is the repetition or echoing of words or sounds that you hear someone else say.

There are two types of echolalia, immediate and delayed.

Immediate Echolalia: The speaker repeats something right after hearing it.

Delayed Echolalia: The speaker repeats something hours or days after hearing it.

Note that while aphantasia and synesthesia are common in autistic people, not all autistic people have one or both conditions, and they are separate diagnoses. Just like how sensory processing disorder is common in autistic people, but not all autistic people have it and it too is a separate diagnosis. Basically you could have aphantasia, synesthesia, and/or sensory processing disorder, but not be autistic.

ABA stands for Applied Behavior Analysis. It's an approach that was derived from learning theory. In ABA, a socially significant behavior is targeted, such as a child learning to make request. And then an environmental alteration is introduced, such as teaching instructions and a reward for a correct response. And then the change in the targeted behavior is objectively measured.

This documentary from 2013, dives deep into the world of ABA therapy. In it you will see that the autistic children undergoing ABA, are treated as if their autism is something that needs to be fixed or cured. They are also treated like dogs, by being given treats whenever they do something correct. They are pretty much being trained/forced to act neurotypical. As an autistic person the documentary is heartbreaking to watch, but I highly encourage people to watch it.

Random info I'm throwing in about myself

My Special Interests:

•Sailor Moon(specifically anything to do with Haruka(Sailor Uranus) and Michiru(Sailor Neptune), cuz I love them both so damn much. And while I never mention what characters I kin, they are two that I definitely do.

•Pokémon. I've been collecting Pokémon cards since I was five, and I still haven't caught 'em all yet.

•Animal Crossing. The emotional attachment I have to my villagers is astounding.

•Serial Killer Documentaries.

•Horror Movies.

•Sharks.

•Stuffed Animals aka Stuffies.

After reading about the different types of dyslexia, I think I may have letter positioning dyslexia. I often find myself mixing up the position of letters in words, omitting letters, and sometimes even adding them in. I also have a tendency to omit words completely in a sentence, but read the sentence as if the word is there and I swear that I can see the missing word, even if it's not actually there. Sometimes I'll it catch before I post something, and sometimes I won't catch it until afterwards.

Some words I tend to mix up are:

•Back and Black

•Artistic and Autistic

•Applause and Applesauce

It happens with other words as well, but those six are the ones it happens with most frequently.

That's all. Hope everyone enjoyed this educational yet long blog.