Autism is a spectrum of closely related disorders with a shared core of symptoms. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) appear in infancy and early childhood‚ causing delays in many basic areas of development such as learning to talk‚ play‚ and interact with others. According to the article‚ “Catching Autism Early’’‚ by Eve Glicksman‚ there has been an immense 23 percent increase in autism from 2006 to 2008 and a 78 percent increase since 2002. This information shows how important it has become for general
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conditions. Include in this the difficulties that those with these conditions have and the behaviour they may exhibit. How do you support those with Autism‚ who else may be involved and how do you ensure effective communication with autistic people. Give actual exampls of your support where possible. Introductory awareness of autistic spectrum conditions. Autism is a developmental disability caused by neurological dysfunction. It affects the way a person understands and responds to the world‚ how they
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Gustavo Valencia SPE-226 12-08-2014 Kimber Underdown Educating Special Needs Students A good dedicated passionate teacher is the one who thinks that all students can succeed. With this belief‚ teachers can inspire themselves to find any route possible to help the students in having a successful life in school and anywhere else. When it comes to special education‚ this belief really needs to be a true one because special education teachers will have to deal not only with behavioral students or students
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moving their mouths. But the non-autistic kids yawned much more frequently than those with autism when watching people really yawning. Since autism is a disorder that affects a person’s social interaction skills‚ including the ability to empathize with others‚ the autistic kids’ lack of yawning when watching others do so could indicate they’re less empathetic. The study also found the more severe a child’s autism‚ the less likely he or she was to yawn. On a positive
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aliens & autism Daedalus‚ Summer 2009 by Hacking‚ Ian Contraries illumine what they are not. Aliens‚ typically from outer space‚ are almost by definition not human. Current portrayals of aliens may show more about who we‚ the humans‚ are than they do about our extragalactic contraries. In portrayal by opposites there is often a large dose of fear: for example‚ that we may be all too like the aliens we imagine. That leads to a paradox about autism and aliens. A persistent trope in some autism communities
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Communication and Language. Flinders University. South Australia. Naber‚ F.B.A.‚ Bakermans-Kraneburg‚ M.J.‚ Van IJzendoorn‚ M.H.‚ Dietz‚ C.‚ Van Daalen‚ E.‚ Swinkels‚ S.H.N.‚ Buitelaar‚ J.K.‚ and Van Engeland‚ H. (2007). Joint attention with toddlers with autism. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry‚ 17‚ 3. Oller‚ D. K.‚ & Eilers‚ R. E.‚ (1988). The role of audition in infant babbling. Child Development‚ 59‚ 441-449. Cited in‚ Hoff‚ G (2009)‚ Language Development (4th ed)‚ Australia: Wadsworth. Peterson
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Appendix F – PSY/270 CheckPoint: Autism and Mental Retardation Respond to the following: 1. List the primary features of autism. Children with autism are unresponsive to others‚ uncommunicative‚ repetitive‚ and rigid their symptoms usually appear before the age of three. An autistic individual will have difficulty sustaining employment‚ accomplishing household responsibilities‚ and leading independent lives. Furthermore‚ they express having problems displaying closeness and empathy
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Wedmore‚ Haley V.‚ "Autism spectrum disorders and romantic intimacy". Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 10143. The paper written by Haley V. Wedmore discusses the challenges that autistic individuals face when pursuing romantic relationships. Due to our present society believing that intimacy which typically leads to the production of family as an important part of the human experience. She discusses the impairments that this disorder brings in terms of communication‚ social understanding
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The first sight of autism types was back in 1747 from a 12 year old boy. People believed this child was purely soulless and devil possessed. Then again later in 1798 from another child‚ but was treated by Jean Itard with a behavior program so his speech could become more evolved. As time went on a Doctor from Vienna University Hospital named Hans Asperger adopted Bleuler’s terminology autistic psychopaths. This is how the name Asperger syndrome came about. Even though now we are informed about the
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conducted a study on how the MMR vaccination possibly causes autism and the study was inconclusive. The researchers found no direct link between the MMR vaccination and autism. According to Jeffery Gerber‚ “ In California‚ researchers compared year-specific MMR vaccination rates of kindergarten students with the yearly autism case load of the California Department of Developmental Services during 1980- 1994. The increase in the number of autism diagnoses did not correlate with MMR vaccination rates” (2)
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