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Neurodiversity Celebration Week Continued: Exceptional Interpersonal Skills
EPIC students can create verbal communications with a rich and interesting advanced vocabulary; many have developed these skills to compensate for their lack of ability with written communication. They can have tremendous powers to connect with other people and when … Continue reading
Neurodiversity Celebration Week Continued: Visual-Spatial Thinking and Learning
EPIC students think and learn in still pictures and/or moving videos, often possessing an extraordinary ability to recall visual memories from movies, video games or actual events. This technique is invaluable for rapid recall and particularly useful when working in … Continue reading
Neurodiversity Celebration Week Continued: Seeing the Bigger Picture
EPIC students ask “big questions,” “life’s larger questions,” which are often challenging questions. They are curious about how things work. To aid their memory, EPIC students seem to need to have an understanding of the bigger picture, which is often … Continue reading
Neurodiversity Celebration Week Continued: Hyperfocus, Drive and Energy
Hyperfocus enables EPIC students to exhibit a single-minded concentration on what they consider to be an interesting task or subject. Given an exciting project to work on, they are entirely absorbed, there is no stopping them! Hyperfocus can be a … Continue reading
Neurodiversity Celebration Week Continued: Taking Different Perspectives
They can not only imagine what physical objects look like from different perspectives, including cross-sections, they can slice and dice buildings in their mind’s eye to, for example, check internal layout, connections for utilities services, and load-bearing walls. I created … Continue reading
Neurodiversity Celebration Week Continued: Instagram[i] for the brain
Some EPIC students have the ability to create stories from a mass of information and draw that story in cartoon form for everyone to appreciate. The translation between auditory and visual representations is invaluable for remembering any story. But this is … Continue reading
Neurodiversity Celebration Week: Types of Mental Images
There are three types of mental images – things we have seen before and can recall, things we want to create and images that just come to us in a sort of knowing. Let me explain this in more detail. … Continue reading
Neurodiversity Celebration Week: “Visual thinking is a tremendous advantage” Temple Grandin
Dr Temple Grandin has designed one-third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She has autism with incredible skills to visualise the best environment for animals, so they remain calm, by putting herself into their world through her … Continue reading
Neurodiversity Celebration Week – me too stories
March 15th-21st is Neurodiversity Celebration Week; please celebrate with people you know, their strengths and exceptional skills. It is time we acknowledge the unique contributions they all make. According to the Department of Education, 15% of students in the United Kingdom have … Continue reading
March 15th-21st is Neurodiversity Celebration Week
To have a learning difference has been one of the biggest challenges and exceptional opportunities in my life. It has made me who I am; for example, creativity, out of the box thinking, seeing different perspectives, gaining unique insights, excellent … Continue reading
