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12:24 pm
August 28, 2010


keanani

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Post edited 1:45 pm – August 28, 2010 by keanani

Overwhelming sensory stimulation and the need for quiet moments in life…sensory friendly movie showings and listening to snails.

IMAX’d Out:  Kids with Autism Get Big-Screen Break

http://www.npr.org/templates/s…..=129479228

Today's mainstream movie experience can be big, bold and loud — driven by 3-D, IMAX and surround-sound technologies and designed to immerse audiences in a fictional world.  But that can sometimes be too much for children with autism, who can have difficulty communicating, reading social cues and tolerating sensory stimulation others take for granted…

‘The Sound of a Snail’: A Patient’s Greatest Comfort

http://www.npr.org/templates/s…..=129475625

She also admired the pace at which the snail lived: "It moved at a speed that was actually faster than my own speed, and so it really was peaceful to watch it. It moved so smoothly and gently and gracefully, it was like a tai chi master." Though not fully recovered, Bailey is moving a little faster these days, and says that "like most humans" she tries to do too much. "I think the functioning of humans is evolving to be faster and faster," she says.

“The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating” by Elizabeth Tova Bailey

The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner

 

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August 30, 2010


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Young Children Surprisingly Perceptive

The authors say this is the first scientific "evidence that young children can use intuitive statistical abilities to infer a psychological cause – a preference."

Young Children Use Statistical Sampling to Infer the Preferences of Other People

http://pss.sagepub.com/content…..2.abstract

“…a paper published recently in the journal Psychological Science shows that very young children can be far more attuned to the "desires, preferences, beliefs [and] emotions" of others, including adults, than the Piaget theory assumes. The paper suggests that young children possess a skill many adults assume they lack: they are able to judge when a human behavior is statistically probable versus when it is unusual. Very young kids, it turns out, often know when adults are not acting as they usually do.”

New Study:  Young Children Surprisingly Perceptive

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/0…..9201431500

The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner

 
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