Posts Tagged "language"

• A Plight of Autistic Adolescents

  On Mind

  I’ve mentioned autism before here and here. It is a diagnosis that has been around for a several decades now. It is increasing in incidence or at least in being diagnosed. The latest I heard was 1 in 166 births – no small number. In terms of defining the disorder, the latest edition of the [...]

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• The Use of Language and Interface

  On Mind

  What is it about the online world that can so dramatically change a person’s experience of herself and the people around her? Is it the very language people use to communicate that carry these substantial effects on experience? In multi-lingual families, members will often find themselves switching back and forth between languages in order to [...]

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