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What information do professionals have?

longman
over 11 years ago

This might be one for the Moderators to look into, but I wonder if others have insight on this.

I've had several conversations recently with professionals dealing with adults on the spectrum who've just spouted the triad of impairments, or who've said its all in the triad of impairments.

With all the literature on theories about autism and various interpretations, and approaches to treatment, I could quite understand professionals looking for the easiest synthesis to hand.  But what is to hand? Is it just too easy to read up on the triad and related summaries? Or is there nothing else to hand for professionals to use.

The Triad of Impairments, as far as I can see, is of no more value than for diagnosing children. It has little relevance to the everyday lives and experiences of adults, and is hardly appropriate to helping professionals understand adult needs.

It doesn't explain a lot of issues facing adults.

But just what are the main texts used by professionals? And how useful are these texts for supporting adults?

Parents
  • over 11 years ago

    My understanding of The Triad of Impairments is just for a classification diagnosis purposes, not actually for practical day to day use. These triad of impairments do not crossover into other conditions and therefore highlight the condition for diagnosis purposes. It is only relative to a cluster of Autism.

    There is lots of over conditional symptoms of autism, but they crossover into other conditions say anxiety, ocd, depression, phobia, etc.

    I think the need for prediction should be on the list of impairments, but there again that would crossover with ocd and social anxiety/phobia.

    So the texts are OFF NO REAL USE, strange how they are promoted as such, as if it is a guide to fix people with autism.

    For me, my personal experience is that my condition is very complex, it crosses over into many other secondary conditions, Autism is the least of my worries it is all the other surrounding crap that goes around it. Tongue Out

    So I think your post is a good point, but it is not even to do with autism in children nor adults, it is aimed at clarification of purely autistic symptoms, like the way blood is categorised.

     

     

     

     

     

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  • over 11 years ago

    My understanding of The Triad of Impairments is just for a classification diagnosis purposes, not actually for practical day to day use. These triad of impairments do not crossover into other conditions and therefore highlight the condition for diagnosis purposes. It is only relative to a cluster of Autism.

    There is lots of over conditional symptoms of autism, but they crossover into other conditions say anxiety, ocd, depression, phobia, etc.

    I think the need for prediction should be on the list of impairments, but there again that would crossover with ocd and social anxiety/phobia.

    So the texts are OFF NO REAL USE, strange how they are promoted as such, as if it is a guide to fix people with autism.

    For me, my personal experience is that my condition is very complex, it crosses over into many other secondary conditions, Autism is the least of my worries it is all the other surrounding crap that goes around it. Tongue Out

    So I think your post is a good point, but it is not even to do with autism in children nor adults, it is aimed at clarification of purely autistic symptoms, like the way blood is categorised.

     

     

     

     

     

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