Autism and our new Vocabulary
I had technical difficulties with WordPress and had to reinstall and manually re-include my previous posts–including this one. (Which is why my July 4 post is dated April 4 2009!) At any rate, the following post was originally published in April 2008–April is Autism Awareness Month! Hope you enjoy my original post below:
It’s difficult to think back to the pre-diagnosis days. Have you ever been stopped in mid-conversation to explain a word that you don’t give a second thought to? I know I have. It seems there is an entirely different language among the Autism Parents versus the Neurotypical Parents. (Neurotypical being one of those post-diagnosis words!) Remember when we were all just Parents?
Here are some other vocabulary words introduced to me through Autism:
- Stimming
- Biomedical Intervention
- Methylation
- Probiotic
- Oxylate
- Casein
- Gluten
- Chelation
- Proprioceptive
- Hippotherapy
- Pica
- Perseverate
- Echolalia
- and of course, neurotypical
As far as the abbreviations and acronyms–ABA, RDI, PDD-NOS, SLP, OT, DT, IEP–there are just too many to list!
Happy Autism Awareness Month!
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