I’m a little surprised he didn’t try Alexander Technique, an efficient movement method which was developed by F.M. Alexander to cure his serious problems with speaking—problems which sound a good bit like vocal dystonia.
The problem may be that F.M. Alexander was an actor, and his technique has remained best known in the theater arts community.
In other news, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight is about people whose range of sensory comfort is mismatched to what’s generally expected. It’s a problem that doesn’t just happen to people on the autistic spectrum.
There’s some help for it—what was in the book was putting people in a non-stressful environment and gradually introducing difficult stimuli—but working with this problem is cleverly concealed under occupational therapy, where no one is likely to find it.
I’m a little surprised he didn’t try Alexander Technique, an efficient movement method which was developed by F.M. Alexander to cure his serious problems with speaking—problems which sound a good bit like vocal dystonia.
The problem may be that F.M. Alexander was an actor, and his technique has remained best known in the theater arts community.
In other news, Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight is about people whose range of sensory comfort is mismatched to what’s generally expected. It’s a problem that doesn’t just happen to people on the autistic spectrum.
There’s some help for it—what was in the book was putting people in a non-stressful environment and gradually introducing difficult stimuli—but working with this problem is cleverly concealed under occupational therapy, where no one is likely to find it.