My Child Just Learns Different Style | Best Speech Therapy Center

1. My Child Just Learns Differently Being a parent of a child with Autism can be overwhelming and one of the biggest fears many parents have is “My child just can’t learn xyz.” Though children with Autism learn differently, it is important to understand this one thing: Autism does not directly inhibit their ability to learn.

2. Autism simply changes how they learn and how we must help teach a child with Autism. It boils down to two types of learning people use; explicit and implicit learning. Implicit learning is learning that we do without any conscious effort. In implicit learning, we might touch a stove and burn ourselves, realizing it’s hot and avoid touching it again. We may be driving in rain for the first time and take a sharp turn and slide, then learn to take those turns slower. It is this implicit learning children with autism have difficulty with. Don’t fret, many experts support that they can still excel at explicit learning. Read More