Unit 1 Autism And Increasing The Length Of Utterance Flashcards
Leo Kanner
Called children autistic.
Described children with common traits and social interaction, belated echolalia and coming from town to families
Eugen Bleuler
In 1908 coined word autism and self-absorbed schizophrenic patients
Hans Asperger
Wrote about a group of autistic psychopaths in 1944
Didn’t mention echolalia as linguistic problem but that the children talked like little grownups and work clumsier and different from normal children
Bruno Bettelheim
Wrote the empty fortress
Called the children autistic
Claimed that they were just order it was due to the coldness of their mothers
Most children with ASD
Are diagnosed after age 4 even though it can be diagnosed as early as age 2
Boys are five times more likely to be diagnosed
DSM-V
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fifth edition
Updated 1994
American psychiatric Association, classification and diagnostic toll, payment by healthcare providers often require a DSM diagnosis
Descriptive of behaviors and uses comprehensive standardized instruments
Spectrum
The level of support required and the severity that is based on social communication impairments and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior
Facilitated communication
Also known as Support a typing, rapid typing, saved typing.
Is a discredited technique
It’s uses are unwarranted and unethical
The facilitator is the one communicating
National standards report of 2007
Provides strength and evidence supporting treatment options for individuals with autism
Hobbs parents, caregivers, educators understand how to integrate critical information in making treatment decisions
Identified limitations in existing treatment research involving individuals with ASD
Unestablished treatments
Academic interventions, auditory integration training, gluten and casein free diet, sensory integrative package
Floor time
Does not teach speech development or motor development but addresses emotional development related to communication and thinking
Psycholinguistic literature
Body of literature that have the rules for how and when to start the process of increasing the mean length of utterance is mainly been drawn
Jay Moore’s summary of traditional language and development
Verbal behavior is explained in terms of underlying mental causes and activities
The meanings of words are stored in the lexicon which is a accessed prior to speech
Language is regarded as the output of various cognitive mechanisms that manipulate the symbols and generate the language according to rules
Words used as symbols to refer to conceptual understanding
Language
A set of contingencies that prevail within a verbal community
Mands and tact’s
Primary vocal verbal Verbal operant develop from about 12 months until about 30 months during browns stage one or the “two word” stage
