quiz 1

Question 1

what do most people think it (autism) is?

Answer 1

disability–mental not physical
socially awkward, porr communication
poor emotional understanding.
varying levels/spectrum
can obsess over things
“rain man” “photographic memory” “super smart, but showing it is hard” “frequent tantrums”.

Question 2

1 in ___ have been identified with asd according to etimates from cdc’s autism and developmental disabilities monitoring (ADDM) network

Answer 2

26.

Question 3

t/f asd is reported to occur in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.

Answer 3

true.

Question 4

asd is nearly ____ times more common in boys than in girls.

Answer 4

4 times

Question 5

autism is ___-____ times ore common in boys compared to girls.

Answer 5

3-5 times.

Question 6

girls with autism are more likely to have more severe____ problems.

Answer 6

cog.

Question 7

t/f girls with aurism are more likely to get diagnosed early in life.

Answer 7

false they are more likely to get diagnosed much later in life.

Question 8

autism is a ___/____ and ____ disorder that affects how people interact with others,communicate, learn, and behave.

Answer 8

neurological/neurobiological and developmental disorders.

Question 9

although autism cann be diagnosed at any age it is described as a ____ because symptoms generally appear in the ______ of life

Answer 9

developmental disorder. first 2 years of life.

Question 10

neuro diversity was coined in 1998 to recognize that

Answer 10

everyone’s brain develops in a unique way

Question 11

neuro diversity recognizes that there is no definition of

Answer 11

“normal” capabilities for the human brain.

Question 12

neuro diversity recognizes different strengths and

Answer 12

and challenges.

Question 13

autism has not much variability in profiles of strengths and weaknesses. t/f

Answer 13

false it has great variability in profiles of strengths and weaknesses.

Question 14

a common feature in autism is weakness in social

Answer 14

communication and a certain inflexibility in behavior/thinking.

Question 15

autism characteristics include delayed development of

Answer 15

verbal language or communication

Question 16

because of some certain things the slp is often the first professional/provider to be consulted).

Answer 16

delays in verbal lang or comm.

Question 17

t/f characteristics of autism include challenges with social communication.

Answer 17

true

Question 18

children with autism have the characteristics of restricted areas of ____

Answer 18

interests/behaviors.

Question 19

CHARACTERISTICS OF ASD INCLUDE RIGITITY WHICH MEANS

Answer 19

SENSITIVITY TO CHANGE.

Question 19

characteristics of asd: autistic individuals are frequently sensitive to new

Answer 19

contexts and environments.

Question 19

PEOPLE with asd have differences in sencory perceltion/

Answer 19

tolerance.

Question 20

visits to the doctor and dentist can be ______for both parents and the medical team.

Answer 20

challenging.

Question 21

getting the child used to the setting gradulaly or other intervention tecniques can be beneficial. this include

Answer 21

social stories, visual schedules

Question 22

diffecits in sensor perceptions fould be ___ or___ to input from the environment.

Answer 22

over or under sensitive to input from the environment

Question 23

sensitivy to senspry input can be

Answer 23

movement, tactile, smell/taste, auditory, visual.

Question 24

a child may not repond to his or her name may lead to a theory that the child can’t hear but they may be also

Answer 24

sensitive to environmental sounds.

Question 25

leo kanner in 1943 wrote autistic disterbances of affective contact paper. and suggested that early infantile autism was na in born constitutional disorder in which children were born

Answer 25

without the motivation for social interaction and affective comments.

Question 26

leo kanner desscribed the parents of autistic children as

Answer 26

“limited in genuine interest in people and showing a great deal of obsessiveness.”

Question 27

leo kanner suggested that there wasa genetic

Answer 27

phenotype.

Question 28

canner provided thorough clinical descriptions and believed that autism was

Answer 28

congentital.

Question 29

even though he saidd asd was congenital he also noted that promblems parents showed in

Answer 29

relating to these children.

Question 30

cold parenting as a causal factor in autism view was because

Answer 30

kanner’s potential psuchological factors were picked up by other professionals in the field and led to the view of cold parenting. vgg

Question 31

one year after kanner _____ published various case studies where he emphasized children’s inability to maintain direct eye contact or understand others’ facial expressions, their linguistic abnormalities and their variety of strange fiations.

Answer 31

Hans Asperger

Question 32

aspber noticed that they were often hypersensitive to taste, touch and sound and that these children were frequently born to parents

Answer 32

who displayed milder versions of the same behavior. all of these pointed toward hereditary factors

Question 33

aspber syndrome entered the medical lexicon in___ when german psychiatrist____

Answer 33

1981- lorna wing counf aspergers thesis and translated it (his work) from german

Question 34

in ___ the international classiication of diseases (ICD) included the syndrome and ____years later the dsm did the same

Answer 34

1992, 2 years later.

Question 35

the tern aspergers is still listed in the icd-10 however in the icd 11 (jann 2022)

Answer 35

subsumes the syndrome into the autism diagnosis, just as the dsm-5 does.

Question 36

aspbergers is a bit controversial because of the link to ____ so we don’t use the terme aspergers anymore.

Answer 36

tied to the nazi eugenics program ppl were hunt or killed or displaying some of these diferences outlined.

Question 37

in the 50s autism was also thought o as an early form o ______.

Answer 37

childhood schizophrenia.