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ASD and common characteristics and deficits - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔impaired
communication, impaired reciprocal social interaction and restricted,
repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behaviors or interests.
Autism as a spectrum disorder with a triad of primary impairments - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Social and Emotional Interaction: Standing too close to
people, unaware of different ways of interacting with others, has desire to
have friends and relationships but struggles to initiate them
Imagination and Flexibility of Thought: does not understand understand
others points of view or feelings, takes everything literally, and agitated by
change in routine
,Social Communication and Language: asks repetitive questions, cannot
'read between the lives' of what people mean, communicates for one needs
rather than for 'social' engagement, and makes factual comments
inappropriate to the context
'Red flags' used in early diagnosis - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Any loss of speech,
babbling, gestures or social skills should be taken very seriously, as
regression is a major red flag for autism.
Overview of diagnosis; how and when - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Doctors look at the
child's developmental history and behavior to make a diagnosis. ASD can
sometimes be detected at 18 months or younger. By age 2, a diagnosis by
an experienced professional can be considered very reliable. However,
many children do not receive a final diagnosis until much older.
Identify risk factors to ASD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Your child's sex. Boys are
about four times more likely to develop autism spectrum disorder than girls
are.
Family history. Families who have one child with autism spectrum disorder
have an increased risk of having another child with the disorder. ...
,Other disorders. ...
Extremely preterm babies. ...
Parents' ages
Pragmatic Language - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the use of appropriate
communication in social situations (knowing what to say, how to say it, and
when to say it)
Receptive Language - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the understanding of information
provided in a variety of ways such as sounds and words; movement and
gestures; and signs and symbols.
Expressive Language - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔our ability to communicate our
thoughts and feelings through words, gestures, signs, and/or symbols
Sensory-Motor - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the process whereby a child gains use and
coordination of his/her muscles of the trunk, arms, legs and hands (motor
development), and begins to experience (through sensory input) the
environment through sight, sounds, smell, taste and hearing
Social Skills - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the skills we use everyday to interact and
communicate with others. They include verbal and non-verbal
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, communication, such as speech, gesture, facial expression and body
language.
Joint Attention - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When the child points to something, not
because they want it, but to show it to someone for a social purpose.
Stereotypy - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔suppressible, repetitive, rhythmical,
coordinated, purposeless, fixed, and nonfunctional pattern of movements.
Disorders commonly associated in differential diagnosis, such as learning
disabilities, processing disorders, etc. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Learning
Disabilities: Learning disabilities are disorders that affect the ability to
understand or use spoken or written language, do mathematical
calculations, coordinate movements, or direct attention.
Processing Disorders: are conditions in which the brain has difficulty
receiving and responding to information that comes through the senses.
Identify comorbid disorders associated with ASD - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Anxiety,
ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, Down Syndrome, Fragile X
Syndrome, Gastrointestinal Symptoms, Intellectual Disability and