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Autism spectrum disorder |
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1.) Impaired social emotional reciprocity 2.) impaired nonverbal communication 3.) failure to develop or maintain appropriate peer relationships |
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DSM 5 diagnostic criteria (all three of the following must be present) |
1.) Impaired social emotional reciprocity 2.) impaired nonverbal communication 3.) failure to develop or maintain appropriate peer relationships |
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Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior and interest (at least two of the following must be present) |
Repetitive behaviors or speech Insistence on sameness Unusual preoccupations or interests Sensory interests |
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Retts disorder |
Affects one in 10,000–15,000 Occurs primarily in females MePC2 gene implicated Typical development up until 6–18 months Most notable loss of purposeful hand movements Poor prognosis Known for hand wringing or hand washing |
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Childhood disintegrative disorder |
Significant loss of social and communication abilities after two years of age Symptoms of ASD develop with poor prognosis indicated 1.7 per 100,000 births |
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Incidence rates |
1 in 110 individuals are affected by ASD 6.7 per 1000 children in the US Prevalence rate of 1 in 88 Male to female ratio of 4:1 Reduced mortality rate |
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Comorbidity |
ID (40–69%) Anxiety (7 - 84%) Depression (4 - 58%) Tic disorder (6%) Seizure disorder (11 - 39%) ADHD (55%) |
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Common assessment tools in ASD |
ADI – R ADOS CARS MCHAT |
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First year of life |
Diagnosed 18-24 months Between 6-12 months symptoms may be apparent Physical manifestations include increased head growth, microcephalic, enlarged brain volume |
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Second year symptoms |
Delayed speech; Limited use nonverbal communication; Black interesting peers; limited imitation of others; lower rates of joint attention; restricted range of functional and imaginative play; repetitive movements |
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Regressive onset |
Between 20-47% children with ASD exhibit few symptoms until they experience loss of language and/or socialization between 15–24 months |
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Middle childhood |
Approximately 5–20% of individuals with ASD can lose all symptoms of autism |
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Seizures in ASD |
Typically occur in either infancy or adolescence Affects 11–39% of individuals |
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Conditions that can mimic autism: |
Landau Kleffners syndrome; Fragile X syndrome; Hellers syndrome; Klinefelter's syndrome |
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Executive functioning |
Generally diffuse impairment… however, if intact performance on testing, typically display impairment in cognitive and behavioral inhibition |
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Considerations with ASD |
Early intervention, intensive applied behavioral analysis |
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Considerations with ASD |
Early intervention, intensive applied behavioral analysis |
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ASD continued |
These folks often have trouble with the big picture; Semantic and pragmatic language skills should be emphasized early; The use of a picture exchange communication system and sign language are recommended for young children |
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Idiosyncratic speech |
The use of words in an inappropriate way to form meaningful but unusual Frases |
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Picture exchange communication system |
And augmentative communication system used to aid children who have difficulty with spoken language. The systems most commonly employ the use of small pictures, which represent objects, actions, or words, that a child can select and present to communicate with others |
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Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs) |
Include repetitive stereotypic motor behaviors, ritualistic behaviors, and insistence of sameness. Most noted during the second year of life with increase during the first five years of life |
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Self injurious behavior |
Behaviors that inflict injury on the individual; these include headbanging and biting oneself |
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