Severe intellectual disability

My grandson was a late talker and spent a lot of time on visits rolling spice jars. He is now in Y7, autistic but with friends, academic success, and enjoyment of swimming. I am grateful to Lathyrus and others for pointing me to sources of information relevant to a lovely child who even gave me a hug on his last visit.

Autistic children and those with learning disabilities often spend longer in particular schema and may stay within one for a very long time. As a previous poster said this can be a result of sensory perception and how the world is perceived as well.

My son is very drawn to visual experiences and has an extraordinary visual memory. Although he cannot talk if I give him Google maps he can find where he lived when he was 2 (in a town he has not seen since 2002, because it is a long way from us now). He also showed me where there was an ambulance station (I had no memory of it) and can find Sainsbury’s etc. He spots light fittings etc that have changed in the decade he was last in a particular room.

So clearly experiences the world in a very different way. Until the invention of Google maps we had no idea tbh.

(When I say the ambulance station and sainsburys - I mean in the town he has not
Seen since 2002). Here he can put the Google maps man down on a house in the middle of a country lane where he went once 12 years ago (I would need the postcode to begin to find it).

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