"How do non verbals think?" Topic

After petting doggie Elmo I got to thinking (In English words) how do non verbal people think. In what language is their internal dialogue?

Enquiring minds want to know.

Unless they are deaf as well as mute they would think in their native language. They could/would learn the words & meaning and write also. Anyway that's my take on it.
Paul (often too verbal)

There is a powerful podcast from one of the science shows of a Professor who suffered a brain injury (stroke or anneurism -- I cant remember) and lost the ability to verbalise for an extended period.

She thought in pictures. The supposition is that is how animals think.

Google if you want to find the show.

Well, keep in mind that animals have more powerful sensory systems in many cases than humans do— namely smell and hearing. I suspect dogs are more likely to "think" in odors, sounds and pictures (in that order).

So a dog might receive a smell, trigger a memory of a similar or identical spell, and if that memory is attached to sounds, sights, tastes, etc., these would all arise to create a complete "sensory image" of the likely source of the smell.

We already know that dogs can be trained to isolate individual smells and attach these smells to deliberate action, which is how bomb-sniffing dogs do their jobs. They don't think "bomb." They don't even know what a "bomb" is or does. All they know is "*this* is a smell which means I'm supposed to this action when I smell it." Only not as a phrase of course, just a learned instinct.