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In his March 25 entry, blogger Landon Bryce (thAutcast) emphasizes summarizing as an extremely important skill after identifying similarities and differences:
“Because it can be especially difficult for people with autism, it is especially important that we work on it.”
Bryce offers practical suggestions for exercising this crucial skill:
“You can practice summarizing often: try doing it during the commercials while watching TV or talking a few seconds to summarize the YouTube video or blog post before moving on the next one.
“Summaries do not have not to be in words: try drawing a picture or a map.”My work as social media curator for the Lake County Record-Bee (www.record-bee.com) affords me a daily opportunity to practice this important skill.
A post on Facebook allows the viewer to read a story's opening paragraph but when I promote a story on Twitter, I am limited by the number of characters.
My objective: try to communicate as much information from that story's opening paragraph in my Twitter post.
Summarizing takes practice and I exercise it daily. Thanks, work-Tweets!
To read Bryce's complete post and view an accompanying video, go to http://thautcast.com/drupal5/content/autism-and-summarizing
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