I feel that overall Uta Frith is an excellent professional, i admire her contribution and like the program.
On the other hand i feel the concepts she is using are dated - for instance in the 'unblinding' the object test where the boy fixates and gets it wrong - she is assuming he lacks faculty to know.
However - such a result is equally likely linked to a gain of social acceptablity factor. Thus the child might have been aware of the switch, but felt he must flow with consensus due to the deliberate encouragement.
It would just seem that this kind of conclusion itself can be shaky when deciding the specific status in cognitive affairs linked to aspergers, although the simple clear tests themselves as models seemed fine.
No doubt some children do have such a challenge and probably the test works in cases. But it is surely not a catch all, so in the same circumstances we would not have made an automatic assumption about our child based on it.
I feel that overall Uta Frith is an excellent professional, i admire her contribution and like the program.
On the other hand i feel the concepts she is using are dated - for instance in the 'unblinding' the object test where the boy fixates and gets it wrong - she is assuming he lacks faculty to know.
However - such a result is equally likely linked to a gain of social acceptablity factor. Thus the child might have been aware of the switch, but felt he must flow with consensus due to the deliberate encouragement.
It would just seem that this kind of conclusion itself can be shaky when deciding the specific status in cognitive affairs linked to aspergers, although the simple clear tests themselves as models seemed fine.
No doubt some children do have such a challenge and probably the test works in cases. But it is surely not a catch all, so in the same circumstances we would not have made an automatic assumption about our child based on it.
