quiz 1 Flashcards
what do most people think it (autism) is?
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”.
1 in ___ have been identified with asd according to etimates from cdc’s autism and developmental disabilities monitoring (ADDM) network
26.
t/f asd is reported to occur in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
true.
asd is nearly ____ times more common in boys than in girls.
4 times
autism is ___-____ times ore common in boys compared to girls.
3-5 times.
girls with autism are more likely to have more severe____ problems.
cog.
t/f girls with aurism are more likely to get diagnosed early in life.
false they are more likely to get diagnosed much later in life.
autism is a ___/____ and ____ disorder that affects how people interact with others,communicate, learn, and behave.
neurological/neurobiological and developmental disorders.
although autism cann be diagnosed at any age it is described as a ____ because symptoms generally appear in the ______ of life
developmental disorder. first 2 years of life.
neuro diversity was coined in 1998 to recognize that
everyone’s brain develops in a unique way
neuro diversity recognizes that there is no definition of
“normal” capabilities for the human brain.
neuro diversity recognizes different strengths and
and challenges.
autism has not much variability in profiles of strengths and weaknesses. t/f
false it has great variability in profiles of strengths and weaknesses.
a common feature in autism is weakness in social
communication and a certain inflexibility in behavior/thinking.
autism characteristics include delayed development of
verbal language or communication
because of some certain things the slp is often the first professional/provider to be consulted).
delays in verbal lang or comm.
t/f characteristics of autism include challenges with social communication.
true
children with autism have the characteristics of restricted areas of ____
interests/behaviors.
CHARACTERISTICS OF ASD INCLUDE RIGITITY WHICH MEANS
SENSITIVITY TO CHANGE.
characteristics of asd: autistic individuals are frequently sensitive to new
contexts and environments.
PEOPLE with asd have differences in sencory perceltion/
tolerance.
visits to the doctor and dentist can be ______for both parents and the medical team.
challenging.
getting the child used to the setting gradulaly or other intervention tecniques can be beneficial. this include
social stories, visual schedules
diffecits in sensor perceptions fould be ___ or___ to input from the environment.
over or under sensitive to input from the environment
sensitivy to senspry input can be
movement, tactile, smell/taste, auditory, visual.
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
sensitive to environmental sounds.
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
without the motivation for social interaction and affective comments.
leo kanner desscribed the parents of autistic children as
“limited in genuine interest in people and showing a great deal of obsessiveness.”
leo kanner suggested that there wasa genetic
phenotype.
canner provided thorough clinical descriptions and believed that autism was
congentital.
even though he saidd asd was congenital he also noted that promblems parents showed in
relating to these children.
cold parenting as a causal factor in autism view was because
kanner’s potential psuchological factors were picked up by other professionals in the field and led to the view of cold parenting. vgg
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.
Hans Asperger
aspber noticed that they were often hypersensitive to taste, touch and sound and that these children were frequently born to parents
who displayed milder versions of the same behavior. all of these pointed toward hereditary factors
aspber syndrome entered the medical lexicon in___ when german psychiatrist____
1981- lorna wing counf aspergers thesis and translated it (his work) from german
in ___ the international classiication of diseases (ICD) included the syndrome and ____years later the dsm did the same
1992, 2 years later.
the tern aspergers is still listed in the icd-10 however in the icd 11 (jann 2022)
subsumes the syndrome into the autism diagnosis, just as the dsm-5 does.
aspbergers is a bit controversial because of the link to ____ so we don’t use the terme aspergers anymore.
tied to the nazi eugenics program ppl were hunt or killed or displaying some of these diferences outlined.
in the 50s autism was also thought o as an early form o ______.
childhood schizophrenia.
