exam 2 asd

Question 1

Hans Asperger

Answer 1

“autistic psychopathology”; participated in eugenics movement

Question 2

Leo Kanner

Answer 2

“early infantile autism” (described children with the essential features of what we now refer to as ASD: resistance to change, developmental delay, social deficits, “congenital” in nature); wrote “Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact,” describing children who were highly intelligent but had a strong desire for aloneness and an obsessive insistence on persistent sameness

Question 3

Bruno Bettelhein

Answer 3

misrepresented his background/credentials; advanced psychoanalytic theory which blamed “refrigerator mothers” for causing autism; legacy of undue pain and guilt for parents

Question 4

Bernie Rimland

Answer 4

rejected “refrigerator mother” notion; promoted disproven theories about the origins of ASD; recognized psychobiological origin of ASD

Question 5

Lorna Wing

Answer 5

psychiatrist; “Asperger syndrome”; National Autistic Society in UK; proposed “spectrum” notion

Question 6

Temple Grandin

Answer 6

instrumental in changing how we view ASD; Time Magazine 2010 top 100 influential person; livestock handling; professor of animal science

Question 7

levels of autism (3)

Answer 7

1) requiring support
2) requiring substantial support
3) requiring very substantial support