Word: learnedness
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By that point, there were other worrisome signs. Pam Barrett recalls that as a 3-year-old, Tommy was a fluent, even voluble talker, yet he could not seem to grasp that conversation had reciprocal rules, and, curiously, he avoided looking into other people's eyes. And although Tommy was...
When Tommy turned 8, his parents finally learned what was wrong. Their bright little boy, a psychiatrist informed them, had a mild form of autism known as Asperger syndrome. Despite the fact that children with Asperger's often respond well to therapy, the Barretts, at that moment, found the news...
That's because just two years earlier Pam and her husband Chris, operations manager of a software-design company, had learned that Tommy's twin brothers Jason and Danny were profoundly autistic. Seemingly normal at birth, the twins learned to say a few words before they spiraled into their secret...
When you were starting grammar school, we first learned from studies of past climate the degree to which Earth’s atmosphere influences climate. When you were entering middle school, scientific consensus told us that recent change in global climate was clearly discernable. When you were in high school...
Then there's the simple matter of winning - the NBA has learned, like Major League Baseball did decades ago, that there's no place too distant to scout for talent. Wednesday a phalanx of NBA executives, desperate to find someone - anyone - to match up with Shaquille O'Neal, gathered at...