So many things along our autism parenting journey focus on our child’s impairments so today, I wanted to talk about how their relative strengths can play a critical role in helping them compensate for their deficits.  

I’m going to dive deep into the importance of understanding how our memory works and more specifically, how their memory works which I think is fascinating.  

Rote learning is when someone memorizes information based on repetition.

While many people on the spectrum struggle with short-term memory, it has been noted that their long-term memory is among the traits that correlated with high intelligence. Many of them, maybe even your child might closely resemble photographic or near photographic levels.  .  A person who has a photographic memory can close their eyes and see the vision or object in their mind as clearly as if they had taken a photograph of it, even days, weeks, and years after they saw the object.

Memory in autism appears to be organized differently than in neurotypical individuals and in a study, I read, they noted differences in the development of the brain connections with the pre-frontal cortex.

They have a difficult time determining what is important.

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