Thinking Reasoning And Decision Making In Autism

Author : Kinga Morsanyi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351060899
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making in Autism written by Kinga Morsanyi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking and Reasoning in Autism provides fresh insights into the cognitive processes that underlie some of the typical characteristics of autism. Autism has long been considered an enigma, and no single theory so far has been able to explain, or even fully describe, the key characteristics of the autistic mind. From the interdisciplinary perspective of new research in cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience, this book explores thinking, reasoning and decision making in autism. The new cognitive approaches challenge some of the existing assumptions of the nature of thought in autism, including presumed areas of impairments. Instead, this book focuses on the nuanced array of cognitive signatures that characterize the autistic mind, and in many cases it reveals the possibility of intact performance alongside instances of remarkably enhanced thinking. The book considers the implications of these characteristics, providing in-depth analyses of specific areas of cognitive functioning, and their everyday manifestations. Featuring contributions from world-leading researchers from the fields of cognitive science and autism research, this volume will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers, as well as those working with individuals with autism spectrum disorders.

Author : Kinga Morsanyi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351060902
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking, Reasoning, and Decision Making in Autism written by Kinga Morsanyi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking and Reasoning in Autism provides fresh insights into the cognitive processes that underlie some of the typical characteristics of autism. Autism has long been considered an enigma, and no single theory so far has been able to explain, or even fully describe, the key characteristics of the autistic mind. From the interdisciplinary perspective of new research in cognitive psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and neuroscience, this book explores thinking, reasoning and decision making in autism. The new cognitive approaches challenge some of the existing assumptions of the nature of thought in autism, including presumed areas of impairments. Instead, this book focuses on the nuanced array of cognitive signatures that characterize the autistic mind, and in many cases it reveals the possibility of intact performance alongside instances of remarkably enhanced thinking. The book considers the implications of these characteristics, providing in-depth analyses of specific areas of cognitive functioning, and their everyday manifestations. Featuring contributions from world-leading researchers from the fields of cognitive science and autism research, this volume will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers, as well as those working with individuals with autism spectrum disorders.

Author : Karina Poirier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988798250
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Social Reasoning and Decision Making in Autism written by Karina Poirier and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a component of the Poirier Social Curriculum. It is designed to develop conflict resolution skills of children with autism and related neurological disorders. Parents, educators, and professionals will find this book useful for teaching children how one's actions contribute to a conflict; how to gather information about the conflict; how to view a conflict from multiple perspectives; how to engage in the conflict resolution process; and how to communicate emotions to and negotiate fair solutions with others involved in a conflict.

Author : Ishita Khemka
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030746755
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision Making by Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities written by Ishita Khemka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines theoretical considerations in the study of decision making as well as practical applications in social interpersonal domains for adolescents and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It provides a history of the study of decision making in individuals with IDD and examines emerging views on decision making from a positive psychology perspective. The book explores the role of decision making in self-determination as well as offers global perspectives on the rights and responsibilities of individuals with IDD to engage in independent decision making. It outlines a framework for the study of decision making in individuals with IDD, reviews research that addresses the role of culturally diverse influences on individual decision making, and examines likely consequences of the etiological bases of disability on decision-making profiles. Key areas of coverage include: · Critical role of basic processes of cognition, motivation and self-beliefs, affect and emotion, and various styles of decision making. · Applications of decision-making skills within family and community contexts, in personal and social relationships, during transition to adulthood and more independent lifestyles, and in successful community living. · Self-protective decision making by individuals in situations of abuse as well as in resisting peer victimization and bullying. · Decision-making parameters for enabling maximum participation in self-decision making, through shared and supported decision making in contexts such as health care, aging, and end-of-life decisions. · Research-based interventions to improve effective decision making in individuals with IDD. Decision Making by Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is a must-have reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and other professionals in the fields of developmental and positive psychology, rehabilitation, social work, special education, occupational, speech and language therapy, public health, and healthcare policy.

Author : Marcia Scheiner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000473031
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Neurodivergent Job Candidate written by Marcia Scheiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides guidance on recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding practices that will allow employers to successfully hire neurodivergent professionals into inclusive, competitive employment. Today, 35% of 18-year-olds with an autism spectrum diagnosis attend college, yet they have a 75–85% under-employment and unemployment rate after graduation. While organizations are looking to expand their diversity and inclusion hiring efforts to include neurodivergent professionals, current recruiting and interviewing practices in general are not well-suited to this. With over one-third of the US population identifying as neurodivergent, employers need to address how to attract this talent pool to take advantage of a meaningful segment of the workforce. Readers of this book will gain an understanding of how to guide their organizations through the creation of recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding processes tailored to neurodivergent professionals in any field. Written by authors with extensive experience working in the corporate world and consulting with Fortune 1000 companies on autism hiring efforts, this book is targeted at employers, acknowledging their perspective. Structured as a reference guide for busy recruiters, hiring managers, and supervisors, this book can be read in its entirety, in relevant sections as needed, or used as a refresher whenever necessary. This book also provides a background on the thinking styles of autistic individuals, giving the reader a deeper understanding of how to best support neurodivergent jobseekers.

Author : Janice Nathan
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784503908
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Reasoning and Problem-Solving Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder written by Janice Nathan and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to develop the 'inner voice' needed to solve problems, this book's innovative approach will help children reach logical and appropriate solutions to everyday problems. This book shows students and professionals how to formally teach key skills for reasoning and problem-solving that aren't usually explicitly taught, such as planning, pausing and reflecting and increasing emotional regulation. Focusing on the 'inner voice' - the dialogue that goes on inside our heads during every day routines - the authors explain how to help children with ASD solve problems independently. The book also shows how children can learn to cope with feelings of stress when confronted with difficult situations, whether getting stuck on homework, making mistakes, choosing options, following procedures that are perceived to be arbitrary, or everyday social situations. Examples of implementing this new approach in different situations are given to show the many ways of teaching these cognitive skills to children with autism.

Author : Nick Chown
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1784503061
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Evaluating Autism Theory written by Nick Chown and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing the full spectrum of theoretical output associated with autism and Asperger syndrome, this is the complete guide to autism theory - spanning from mainstream and alternative, through to non-autism specific theories that might be applied to autism. Previous study on autism has made significant inroads into the individual branches of autism theory, however, no text has brought together the complete range of theories in an accessible textbook for students and academics. The author argues that a more obvious application of theory to autism intervention would be beneficial to practitioners. With access to the complete range of available autism and Asperger syndrome theory, from development theories to learning style theories, the academics and students working towards the practical application of theory to intervention will have all the necessary information at their disposal. The book is based on a series of autism theory lectures delivered for the NAS and Sheffield Hallam University.

Author : Kenneth Gilhooly
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135471886
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working Memory and Thinking written by Kenneth Gilhooly and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking and memory are inextricably linked. However, a "divide and rule" approach has led cognitive psychologists to study these two areas in relative isolation. With contributions from some of the leading international researchers on working memory and thinking, the present volume aims to break down the scientific divisions and foster scientific integration in the connections between these two core functions of cognition. Broadly defined, thinking comprises mentally driven change in current representations. The processes involved in such change include application of logical rules, heuristics, problem solving strategies, decision making, planning and comprehension of complex material. Memory involves the encoding, retention and retrieval of information, and the retention may be temporary or in a long-term knowledge base.; Thinking cannot occur in a vacuum; it relies on the long-term memory base and a temporary mental workspace. Despite the apparent limitations on mental workspace, humans can drive a car and hold a conversation, or store partial solutions while tackling other aspects of a problem. So too, some aspects of thinking are relatively resilient in the face of quite extensive brain damage, yet other aspects are remarkably vulnerable to neuroanatomical insults. Humans can solve complex problems with many alternative choice points and yet seem to be able to consider only a few hypotheses at any one time. These apparent paradoxes present significant scientific challenges as to how humans can be such successful thinkers despite their very limited working memory. The chapters herein represent a diversity of views as regards the nature or working memory and forms of human thinking. The links between working memory and thinking are directly addressed and made explicit, and in so doing this volume offers an increasingly integrated understanding of human thinking and memory.

Author : Maggie E. Toplak
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1317265319
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Individual Differences in Judgement and Decision-Making written by Maggie E. Toplak and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children face an overwhelming amount of information and a range of different choices every day, and so there has never been a more important time to understand how children learn to make judgments and decisions in our modern world. Individual Differences in Judgment and Decision-Making presents cutting-edge developmental research to advance our knowledge and understanding of how these competencies emerge. Focusing on the role of individual differences, the text provides a complementary theoretical approach to understanding the development of judgment and decision-making skills, and how and why these competencies vary within and between different periods of development. Sampling a diverse set of developmental paradigms and measures, as well as considering typical and atypically developing samples, this volume provokes thinking about how we can support our children and youth to help them make better choices. Drawing on the expertise of a range of international contributors, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of thinking and reasoning from both cognitive and developmental psychology backgrounds.

Author : Essy Knopf
Publisher : Essy Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neurodivergent Game Plan written by Essy Knopf and published by Essy Knopf. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the playgrounds of our youth to the professional realms of our adult lives, autistics and ADHDers must navigate a world ill-suited to our unique needs—often without support. Written by a neurodivergent therapist, Neurodivergent Game Plan: Cheat Codes for Empowered Living offers a compassionate exploration of the neurodivergent experience from the inside out. Drawing on lived experience, rigorous research, and clinical insights, the book delves into the impact of structural ableism on neurodivergent experiences of attachment and trauma. It provides evidence-based approaches for addressing executive dysfunction and improving mental flexibility, while offering practical advice on managing neurodivergent needs and finding support. Within its pages, you will learn how to: • Identify often-overlooked autistic and ADHD traits. • Understand common co-occurring challenges. • Recognize symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder. • Develop robust strategies for managing stress. • Construct a tailored plan for sensory, executive, and social self-care. • Refine organizational skills for peak efficiency. • Maximize the benefits of therapy. • Discover and leverage latent strengths. • Engage with the community. • Create a roadmap for career satisfaction. • Thrive in the face of ableism. Whether you’re new to your neurodivergent identity or further along in your journey, Neurodivergent Game Plan is an opportunity to deepen your self-knowledge and explore new ways to flourish.