Dr. Ellen Braaten
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first heard Aug 2016
last heard Nov 2023
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Or, you know, everything impacts everything except social relationships are great.
But I think there are tips in the book for parents in any one of those areas, some strategies and some things to think about that I think could be helpful for them.
Yeah, I mean, it was kind of funny because I would hear that a lot.
And in fact, sometimes people were coming to me when really the issue was the slower processing speed coming to me saying, you know, like, my pediatrician thinks he might have autism or, you know, like,
Because the social situations are difficult, but he doesn't seem that way at all to me.
And sure enough, it didn't have anything to do with autism spectrum, but that the social issues are what got them into my door because that's where the biggest problem was for me.
You know, what the parents were reporting is he's just having so much trouble with social situations.
So when we looked at our own study group, we found that, yeah, there is a pretty high probability that you're going to have some problems with social relationships if you've got slower processing speed.
And it kind of surprised us a little bit.
But then at the same time, it didn't because we do hear that a lot.
There is,
one of the things you can do is that there are a few questionnaires in there that you can do to kind of gauge, first of all, your child's processing speed.
So you can kind of look at just verbal versus visual versus motor versus academic to kind of get a sense, even just like being able to rate where the problems are.
We also have a checklist in there that gives you the opportunity to rate your own processing speed so that you can sort of get a sense of, okay, where is the match between myself and my child?
And then also because social relationships are so significant, we've got a questionnaire in there as well to kind of look at what to look at at different ages where slow processing speed might be more difficult or might impair friendships and that sort of thing.
And then there's another one in there, too, that we haven't talked about is just the emotional cost of slow processing speed that a lot of times kids wind up getting sort of down, anxious, depressed, because it takes a toll.
If this is something that's untreated and
unacknowledged, even more so than untreated, that there's a cost in one's self-esteem.
So there are a number of different questionnaires that if they go on the website, Guilford.com,
that they can download to use to kind of just give themselves a little heads up on what's going on for their child.
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