Hello I am new here...although I have been lurking around the NAS website and such for about 3 years :D :s I am an autistic adult and after years of struggling to maintain employment I have decided to start my own healthcare business. I am a healthcare professional and eventually hope to have students from universities and colleges. Due to my own experiences I want to try to redefine the experiences I had as an autistic student, so I am thinking of all the ways I can support those better with disabilities. One of the things I have come across in regards to education (and I know this is taught to teachers and educators) which is blooms taxonomy (or versions of). This is basically a pyramid that lists 'the order in which you should learn' or helps frame assessments etc. but I wonder whether this may be different for autistic people or for neurodiverse people in general and whether this 'order' is different for us. I know this is something I have really struggled with and wanted to know whether other people experienced something similar.
For example the bottom ladder of this pyramid is remembering (so for healthcare for example you might have to list anatomical structures of the pancreas)
the second is understanding - So what do these anatomical structures do
the third is applying - so how would knowing what these structures do help you apply a healthcare intervention
fourth is sometimes grouped together into evaluating, analysing , creating - so weighing up pros and cons of certain interventions, how this may impact other structures, can we treat this differently than we already do.
I find the higher level thinking much easier (how things work rather than what they are called) , so from understanding onwards and often become word blind when i need to verbalise things. People assume i don't understand it at all because I cant remember the name of something, but can I tell them what it does, how it works, analyse it, interpret data around it ? ..... yes I can.
So it makes me think are we letting down lots of people because they struggle with the first level when actually their understanding is deep and complex but haven't been asked the right questions. Ive seen educational resources and research for autistic people that show how to use blooms taxonomy, but I just think its different for us and I wonder are we being held back because of this?
Hope this makes sense 