Wrong. It is not a learning disability. It is a pervasive developmental disorder.
It could be argued that it's a learning difference because people with ASD can learn advanced stuff, sometimes at a younger than average age, providing the style of teaching and learning is optimal for them.
Sorry Arran but you're definitely wrong. The government class it as a learning disability. I had an adult social care assessment in late 2015, officially listing my Asperger's syndrome as a learning disability. The social worker even cut me off mid sentence & he said "you have autism, that IS a learning disability".
Obviously seeing something daily doesn't mean you will absorb it. I've seen the same Spanish writing daily on TV programs, but I still have no idea what it means. I'm sure others with a higher IQ would probably have worked out some words by now.
Imagine that you've been put in special needs classes in school/college & sent on special needs friendly training programs in adulthood to teach those specific things. Let's say you now know exactly what you should do, say etc. But what good does knowing the skills do, when you may still always feel too much distress to actually do them. A monkey can be taught to host a tea party, but that doesn't mean it benefits from that.
Wrong. It is not a learning disability. It is a pervasive developmental disorder.
It could be argued that it's a learning difference because people with ASD can learn advanced stuff, sometimes at a younger than average age, providing the style of teaching and learning is optimal for them.
Sorry Arran but you're definitely wrong. The government class it as a learning disability. I had an adult social care assessment in late 2015, officially listing my Asperger's syndrome as a learning disability. The social worker even cut me off mid sentence & he said "you have autism, that IS a learning disability".
Obviously seeing something daily doesn't mean you will absorb it. I've seen the same Spanish writing daily on TV programs, but I still have no idea what it means. I'm sure others with a higher IQ would probably have worked out some words by now.
Imagine that you've been put in special needs classes in school/college & sent on special needs friendly training programs in adulthood to teach those specific things. Let's say you now know exactly what you should do, say etc. But what good does knowing the skills do, when you may still always feel too much distress to actually do them. A monkey can be taught to host a tea party, but that doesn't mean it benefits from that.
