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Autism Vox

by Kristina Chew, PhD on January 20th, 2008

These are all new “technological milestones” in a child’s development, notes today’s New York Times.

Charlie has #1 down and last night we were looking at some You Tube videos of ferris wheels together…….

Daisy
Jan 21, 2008 at 9:44 pm

Amigo has mastered #3 and uses keyboard commands instead of #1. He can’t see the cursor.
Eleanor
Jan 22, 2008 at 11:55 am

I just wish that the people who design some of those tests for ASD would pay some attention to the new technological milestones. I recall when my son was about 4, one of the questions for self-sufficiency skills was about whether he knew what time his favorite television show came on. Since he has never watched network TV, I asked if we could substitute his ability to put on his favorite video, tell time, or surf the net, etc. But no…only channel surfing counted!
Kristina Chew, PhD
Jan 22, 2008 at 3:04 pm

Sounds like that test has hit a “delay” of its own.
Kev
Jan 22, 2008 at 5:25 pm

Meg does all three and has for a year. cool I can see my seven year old has the technological age of a 14 year old :)

Maybe I’ll try and get her on the next Generation Rescue ‘recovery’ video ;)
Kev
Jan 22, 2008 at 5:26 pm

say not see, duh.
Kristina Chew, PhD
Jan 22, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Charlie is still finding his way around the keyboard and figuring out how much pressure to apply to a key — guess we will have to wait for “Autism Yester-Yesterday.”