Autism General Characteristics Flashcards
1
Q
Speech
A
-Focus on isolated sounds versus segment words
2
Q
Attention
A
-Difficulty disengaging attention
3
Q
Emotions
A
- May not be able to identify
- Does NOT imply that they do not feel various emotional states
4
Q
Memory
A
-Strengths vary between people (immediate vs. recent)
5
Q
Executive Functioning
A
-Visual learner
6
Q
IQ
A
40-70% have ID (negatively skewed due to lack of tests)
7
Q
Sensory Systems
A
- Hyper/hypo sensitive
- Insistence on routine or sameness
8
Q
Other
A
- Poor reality contact
- Delayed or splintered motor development
- Self-stimulation
- Splintered perceptual skills
- Perseveration
- Echolalia
- Identity Concept
- Ritualism
- Mental Rigidity
- Attention Deficit
- Impaired Social Interaction
- Mechanical movement/speech
- Perimeter walking
- Languag regression
