Mastering Tasks and Taking Pride in Accomplishments
Video Summary
This video discusses mastery motivation: a desire to aquire and master new skills, gradually develop greater independence, and express pride in new abilities. Mastery motivation plays a key role in typical learning and development, but is often lacking in children with autism, who may actively resist learning new skills or fail to share their accomplishments with others. Dr. Kolevzon guides us through several examples of typically developing youth displaying mastery motivation and discusses how such motivation is often limited or absent in children with autism.
"Children on the autism spectrum...may not be motivated to master new skills. And even when they learn to do a task, they may not show the same level of pride, or may not want to do it again."
— Alexander Kolevzon, MD
Keywords
- General Behaviors
- lack of mastery motivation
- mastery motivation