Wednesday June 21, 2006
Got a neat comment today from the OT. She qualified it by saying she absolutely is not somebody who can diagnose this, but that we should be sure to have him tested for giftedness too. Although he is obviously behind on language, she is still unable to find something that can challenge his pattern-matching and perception skills. She said today she “should be shocked, but really isn’t surprised any more” when he is able to do a mental task that should stretch him. As long as the activity does not require communication, but relies on visual clues, he is really advanced.
Really cool to hear somebody finally recognizing what we have known all along. It is pretty hard to convince somebody that you are dealing with an extremely intelligent child when they can’t converse with them. They have to figure it out for themselves because saying that makes them think we are delusional.
I’m not at all surprised. It seems that a lot, if not most, children on the autism spectrum are very, very intelligent. I’m glad your OT recognized it in Zane.
I’m not surprised either, but I’m glad that the OT is aware of it too!
That’s really cool that she told you this. Validation just feels good sometimes, despite how confident we are that we are not delusional.
My son is a wiz with puzzles, but I’m not sure about perception skills. I feel so clueless about some of these terms in regards to his development and abilities. I feel like I need to soak up more of the resources out there, plus make notes, it’s all so overwhelming to take in.