Getting to know other types of communication

Today we had in the class a lecture held by Juan Vázquez, a teacher of our university who works with autistics and Asperger people, about other kinds of communication that are used by these people.

Those who suffer these syndromes are not able to establish a normal relationship or even conversations with others. We already knew about this simple fact, but what we deepened into was on the neurological field. They have an excess of neurological branches. Those branches should have been split when learning on our first two years of life but in their cases it did not happen.

That is why they cannot receive more than one message, nor more than one communication channel as otherwise, they will not be able to catch anything and they could even suffer a bad reaction to it. For instance, we cannot make a draw to them while we are explaining something, they would not be able to focus neither on one thing nor in the other. Apart from that, they need a relaxing environment, and their surroundings must be a stable place: the first day they get into a place they would need it to remain like that.

Finally, talking about the most related thing with communication skills, they do not feel the necessity to chat with their peers. They can deal with living without friends. However, it is advisable to talk to them having in mind the previous theory. That is why we should go step by step with them, giving only essential information through one only channel until one day we could reach a common relationship.

Image from: Neuropediatra.org