SLPs Wine and Cheese's Podcast

In this episode Deb and Maria discuss Theory of Mind and it's involvement in Speech Pathology.

1:27 Maria is feeling toasty.

We sipped on Colosi Nero D'avola 2016. Maria loved it! Both Deb and Maria voted drink it. It's from Sicily, Italy.

Nero d’Avola is one of the full-bodied wines of the world in the same boldness as Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinotage, and Syrah.

Primary flavors come from the grape variety itself

Secondary flavors come from winemaking and fermentation

Tertiary flavors come from aging (most typically from oak barrels or oxidation)

This wine pairs well with meat, shellfish, and aged cheese.

We ate manchego cheese and Deb also made some shrimp fra diavolo with Mike's famous Recine Brother's Tomato Sauce! YUM

We chatted about Schrödinger's cat:

Schrödinger's cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics applied to everyday objects.

Here's the story: A cat is locked up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must be secured against direct interference by the cat): in a Geiger counter, there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of the hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer that shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The psi-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.

Finally we get to Theory of Mind: The theory that people have ideas, desires, and motivations that are diverging. Many people on the Autism spectrum often struggle to understand that other people have their own plans, thoughts, and points of view. This causes them to have difficulty understanding other people's beliefs, attitudes, and emotions. This impacts their ability to relate and communicate.

We also get into anxiety and neurotransmitters for some reason.

Then we get back on track with theory of mind and talk about false truth tests!

Listen in to find out how theory of mind can impact kids on your caseload in the classroom setting.

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