(ASD) Questions And Answers
Social Interaction Impairments deficits 1) Imitating others ( Normal behavior)
2) Orienting to social stimuli
3) Sharing a focus of attention with others
4) Understanding other people's emotions
5) Engaging in make-believe play
THEY DONT UNDERSTAND RELATIONSHIPS/NEED IT BUT CANT GIVE BACK
Social Interaction Impairments part 2 1) Can't show social expressiveness and sensitivity
to others.
2) Rarely share experiences or emotions with other people
3) Focus on one part of a person's face rather than the whole facial expression.
Impairments in joint social attention 1)Ability to coordinate one's focus of attention on
another person and an object of mutual interest
2) Leads to little desire to share interest and attention with another person
3) Limited eye contact and smiling during parent-infant interactions in the first year may be
related to deficts in joint attention
, Exam 3 part 1 Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASD) Questions And Answers
Process social info in unusual ways 1) Difficulty imitating others or orienting to social
versus nonsocial stimuli
2) May overemphasize parts of the face ( focus on one part rather than the whole face)
3) Prefer non-verbal speech over verbal speech
Show lower secure attachment to their mothers as normal controls ( slightly) Can form
attachments but cannot understand and respond to social info
Cant fully process and express emotional info in 1) Body language
2) Gestures
3) Facial expressions
4)Voice
Communication impairments 1) Language impairment sign is inconsistent use of early
pre-verbal communication
2) Used protoimperative gestures rather than protodelarative gestures
3) May used instrumental gestures but not expressive gestures.